654 



AGARISTID^. 



on each side by chocolate-brown, strongly incurved from below 

 costa to vein 3, then very obliquely incurved. Hind wing black, 

 with elliptical oblique orange patch beyond the cell from below 

 vein 8 to 2. Underside of fore wing with oblique orange post- 

 medial band from below costa to below vein 2, attenuate at 

 extremities. 



2 darker. 



Bab. Surinam ; Brazil, Sta. Catherina, 1 (S ,1 $ . Ex^.^ cS 50, 

 2 56 millim. 



Genus SCHALIFRONTIA, nov. 



Type, S. furcifer. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2ad joint fringed with long 

 hair in front, the 3rd small, naked ; frons with a three-grooved conical spine 

 ending in a minute fork, the lower part of frons produced into lateral walls ; 

 eyes hairy ; antenna almost simple, slightly dilated towards extremity ; tibiae 

 smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 5 from well 

 above angle ; 6 from just below upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before 

 angle of cell ; 3 from just before angle ; 6 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



211. Schalifrontia furcifer, n. sp. 



2 . Black ; tegulse with orange patches ; coxae with some yellow 

 hair ; abdomen wdth narrow lateral and broad ventral yellow stripes 

 not quite reaching extremity. Fore wing with orange-yellow 

 stripe from base to origin of vein 2, extending to subraedian fold 

 and into middle of cell ; an oblique band beyond the cell from below 



Fig. 288. — Schalifrontia furcifer, 2' i- 



costa to above vein 2 near termen, rounded at extremities. Hind 

 wing with wedge-shaped orange-yellow fascia widening from base 

 to near termen, where it extends from just below vein 2 to 7, at 

 base confluent with a fascia on inner area extending to near tornus. 

 Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catherina {Schmidt)^ 1 2 type. Exp. -JO 

 millim. 



Genus PAROTHRIA, nov. 



Type, P. ecuadorina. 



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

 fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd joint short and clothed with hair ; frons 

 with small truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity ; antennae 



