SEIEOCASTNIA. rHASIDIA. 659 



patcli from base to a point on vein 4 near tcrmen^ extending at 

 middle from vein 1 just below costa. Underside of fore wing with 

 triangular orange patch from base to middle in and below cell. 



Ab. 1 elapheholia. Fore wing with the oblique band not obsolescent. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with orange medial spot on median nervure on 

 upperside, the postmedial band not extending to vein 2. Hind wing 

 with the orange patch not extending above the cell and vein 7, or so 

 far towards termen. 



Hob. Ecuador, type f S elapheholia in Coll. Druce ; Bolivia, 

 type tin Coll. Druce, Corvico 1 (S ^ Songo 2 (S {Garlepp)-^ Peru, 

 Chanchamayo (Tha^nm), 1 c? . Exp. 50-58 millim. 



*219. Seirocastnia meridiana. (Plate LIV. fig. 17.) 



Fhasis meridiana, Scbaus, J. N. Y, Ent. Soc, iv. p. 148 (1896). 



(S . Black ; abdomen yellow, with black dorsal and lateral stripes 

 and the extremity black. Fore wing with narrow rather irregular 

 oblique orange band beyond the cell between veins 7 and 2. Itind 

 wing with pear-shaped orange patch in, below, and beyond cell, 

 rounded at extremity ; the underside with a little orange at base of 

 costa. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo, typef S in Coll. Schaus. E.vp. 56 

 millim. 



220. Seirocastnia colnmbina. (Plate LIV. fig. 4.) 



Othria columhina, Westw. Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. (2) i. p. 202 (1877) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 32. 



Black ; palpi with orange spot near base ; tegulae with orange 

 band in front. Fore wing with oblique orange band from just below 

 costa at upper angle of cell to just above tornus, varying somewhat 

 in width and outline. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogotaj 6 S . Exp. 58 millim. Type f in Mus. 

 Oxon. 



Genus PHASIDIA, nov. 



Type, P. contraria. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 3rd joint long, 

 naked and porrect ; frons with long truncate conical prominence with a raised 

 rim at extremity ; antennae almost simple, strongly dilated towards extremity ; 

 tibiae slightly fringed with hair above ; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing 

 with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from just below upper angle ; 

 9, 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a minute areole, 7 from beyond the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 3 fi'om close 

 to angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



221. Phasidia contraria. 



Fhasis contraria, Wlk, xxxi. 136 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 33. 

 Othria meridionalis, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 272. 



$ . Black-brown. Fore wing with oblique pale yellow band from 



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