442 AKCTIAD^. 



with fine pale lines ; a crimson-red spot at base, subbasal spots 

 below costa and cell, and sometimes an obscure spot in end of cell. 



Fig. 183. — Maz(sras conferta, (^ . \. 



Hind wing crimson, the area in below and beyond the cell semi- 

 hyaline whitish in male. 



Ilab. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 2 <S , 1 2 type. Exj^.^ 6 64, ^ 

 74 millim. 



2023. Mazaeras janeira. 



Sychesiajaneira, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 280 ; id. Am. Lep. pi. iii. f. 14. 



S . Head and thorax yellow-brown ; tegulse edged with orange ; 

 legs fuscous, the coxae orange ; abdomen orange, with dorsal black 

 bands on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments, followed by three spots, a 

 lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface brown. Fore wing 

 yellow-brown with numerous fine pale striae. Hind wing yellowish, 

 the inner and terminal areas tinged with brown. 



2 . Hind wing fuscous, with yellowish patch at base. 



Hah. Brazil, Eio Janeiro, 1 (S , Eio Grande do Sul, 1 $ . Exp. 

 60 millim. Type f in Coll. Schaus. 



Genus PURIUS. 



Type. 



Pwnws, Wlk. iii. 719 (1855) ^il. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned reaching vertex of head, roughly 

 scaled, the 3rd joint minute; irons with tuft of hair; antennge of male 

 bipectinate with moderate branches ; tibite with the spurs short ; abdomen 

 dorsally somewhat roughly scaled towards base. Fore wing with vein 3 

 from near angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from well below upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the long areole ; 11 free. 

 Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from well below 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing rather strongly with the cell at middle. 



2024. Purius pilumnia. 



Bombyx pilumnia, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 307,3) (1780); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 225. 

 Purius sordidus, Wlk. iii. 719 (1855); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 



p. 100 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 205. 



rT . Head and thorax pale brown irrorated with fuscous ; palpi 



