PARANERITA. 439 



Genus PARANERITA, nov. 



Type, P. polyxena. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not quite reaching vertex of head, 

 the 3rd joint minute ; antenna} with long bristles and cilia ; tibiae with the 

 spurs racxlerate ; abtloinen dorsally clothed with long hair towards base. Fore 

 wing elongate, the terruen very oblique ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; G from 

 upper angle; 7, 8 stalked; 9, 10 stalked from 11, 9 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole. Hind wing with vein 2 from close to angle of cell ; 3 and 5 

 on a long stalk; 4 absent; (5,7 from upper angle, 7 bent upwards to costa ; 

 8 from middle of cell curved to costa, which is strongly lobed in male. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with elliptical patch of androconia below the cell on 

 underside covered by the costal lobe of hind wing which extends to 

 near apex. 



A, Hind wing pink patara. 



B. Hind wing brown sithnides. 



*20i7. Paranerita patara. (Plate XLIX. %. 5.) 



Neritos patara, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 39 (1896). 



c? . Head and thorax grey-brown, upper part of frons yellow ; 

 antennae white al tips ; abdonien pale crimson ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing pale yellow ; the 

 inner area from costa before middle to the postmedial line at vein 2 

 grey-brown with some pink on inner margin ; a fine curved post- 

 medial line, the apical area beyond it grey-brown down to vein 5, 

 with a large rounded yellow spot at apex. Hind wing pink, with a 

 brown patch on termen from below apex to vein 1. 



2 . Fore wing with the patch on costa more obliquely conical ; 

 the medial patch on termen more triangular and the upper patch at 

 apex. Hind wing with large fuscous patch on middle of termen. 



Hah. Br. Guiana, Essequibo R. ( Whitely)^ type f J in Coll. 

 Druce ; Brazil, Espiritu Santo, $ in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 30 millim. 



2018. Paranerita sitlinides. 



Neritos sithnides, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 39 (1896). 



^ . Head and thorax brown ; vertex of head yellow ; abdomen 

 crimson ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen yellow. 



Fore wing purplish brown ; 

 a broad yellow band with 

 waved edges from middle of 

 costa to termen above tor- 

 nus, expanding on costa and 

 termen ; the costa orange- 

 red just before the band 

 and beyond it ; a terminal 

 l^ig. ISO.— Paranerita sithnides, (S. \. yellow band with minutely 



waved inner edge and ex- 

 panding at apex. Hind wing brown, the inner area yellow ; the 

 cilia yellowish white ; underside mostly suffused with yellow. 



Hah. Amazons, R. Napo ( Whitely\ type t d in Coll. Druce ; 

 Perf, Chanchamayo, 1 c? . Exp. 30 millim. 



