JOSIOIDES. — GANGAMELA. 
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tinued internally to the base ; secondaries with a few orange scales at the base ; no abdominal 
streak, the central spot enlarged to twice its size ; otherwise as above. Expanse of wings 
1 inch 6 lines. 
Para (J. P. G. Smith). 
Josioides purpurata, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 5.) 
Wings purplish brown ; primaries with a broad^ oblique, orange band, slightly incurved 
at its lower extremity : thorax dark brown ; abdomen black, shot with purplish blue, with a 
lateral orange spot : primaries below with the orange band broader ; secondaries with a 
rounded orange spot on the disk ; venter dark brown ; anus orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 
6 lines. 
Barreiras das Araras, Rio Solimoes, January 16, 1874 {J. W. H. Trail). 
MELAMEEIDJ3. 
LAMA, Walker. 
Lama striata, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 7.) 
Black-brown : primaries above with a large cuneiform golden yellow patch at the base, 
intersected by the black nervures and internervular streaks ; a rather narrow oblique band of 
golden yellow beyond the middle, from the subcostal nervure to near the external angle. Body 
above slightly bluish ; frons greyish ; genitalia testaceous. Primaries below without the black 
veins and streaks upon the yellow basal area ; band slightly broader : secondaries with an 
oblique abbreviated yellow band from submedian nervure to end of cell ; otherwise as above. 
Body below silky black ; legs greyish in front, brown behind ; venter with a lateral interrupted 
yellow line. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 
Espiritu Santo, (see note on p. 46). 
AUied to Lama trifera of Walker. 
GANGAMELA, Walker. 
Gangamela fig^lina, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 8.) 
Primaries bright orange; the margins, a large triangular apical patch, and the veins 
towards the base, black-brown: secondaries black-brown. Body black-brown; head and 
collar spotted with white ; tegulse with a central squamose orange streak : abdomen with 
dorsal and lateral longitudinal grey lines ; pectus orange in front, white behind ; legs with 
white inner margins to the trochanters and femora; venter white, with central longitudinal 
black-brown band. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. 
Espiritu Santo. 
