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the thorax not orange. Abdomen with an orange band at the 



base. 



n. Brazil. 



Note. — Some varieties as here mentioned may be distinct species. 

 Male. Fore wings with three inferior veins ; second and third 

 united to some length from the base, nearer to the discal fold than 

 to the fourth. Fern.? Four inferior veins; second and third as near 

 to the first as to the fourth. 



4. JoSIA AURIFUSA. 



Alra % aurantiaco bivittata, subtus albo univittata ; alee aurantiacce 

 nigro marginatce. 



Deep black, with two orange stripes ; under side with a white 

 stripe. Fore wings with a fusiform orange stripe occupying the 

 disk, and forked on the under side, and with a black border which 

 is broadest towards the tip ; three inferior veins; second and third 

 united for a short space from the base, a little nearer to the discal 

 fold than to the fourth. Hind wings orange for more than half the 

 breadth and for about three-fourths of the length from the hind 

 border; the orange part is more or less interrupted by an oblique 

 black stripe which widens towards the hind border. Legs with 

 whitish stripes. Length of the body 5 — 6 lines ; of the wings 14— » 

 18 lines. 



a—f. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 

 g. Brazil. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



Group 2. SCEA. 



Corpus gracile, cylindricum, sublineare. Palpi breves, porrecti, 

 capite breviores; articulus 2us lo multo longior ; 3us conicus 2i 

 triente non longior. Proboscis thorace paullo longior. Antenna? 

 maris sat late pectinatae, fceminae simplices. Alae latitudine medio- 

 cres, elongato-trigonae ; anticag postice angulatae. Abdomen alas 

 posticas paullo superans. Pedes graciles ; tibia? anticae maris sim- 

 plices ; postieae calcaribus quatuor sat longis. 



Body slender, cylindrical, nearly linear. Palpi short, porrect, 

 not so long as the head; second joint much longer than the first; 

 third conical, not more than one-third of the length of the second. 



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