ACOLASIS. 
Ill 
with the terminal area black-brown, a slight discoidal lunule 
defined by brown, sinuous medial and postmedial lines oblique 
towards costa, and a narrow white band before the terminal 
fine. 
Hcib. “ W. Coast of N. America” (Kellett & Wood), l <^type; 
Brazil, Para ( Grahame ), 1 $. Exp. 42-48 millim. 
Acolasis catoxantha, n. sp. 
Head and thorax grey mixed with red-brown ; antennae 
blackish ; tegulae with dark band near tips ; pectus and legs 
whitish, the tibiae and tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen 
rufous with whitish segmental lines, the ventral surface 
white. Fore wing red-brown suffused with grey-green and 
with some dark irroration, double red-brown subbasal striae 
from costa ; antemedial fine double, red- brown, waved, 
angled outwards in the cell and excurved above inner margin ; 
reniform defined by black-brown, placed on the double waved 
medial line, the outer line bent outwards beyond the cell ; 
postmedial line red-brown, forming a diffused blackish mark 
at costa, bent outwards below costa, at vein 3 bent inwards to 
lower angle of cell, then erect, a waved blackish shade beyond 
it and some whitish points on the costa ; subterminal line 
grey defined on each side by red-brown forming somewhat 
dentate marks on inner side, incurved below costa, angled 
outwards below vein 7, then somewhat dentate and excurved 
at middle ; a small blackish spot below apex and waved line 
just before termen ; cilia faintly chequered with blackish. 
Hind wing orange ; very indistinct oblique sinuous dark 
medial and postmedial lines ; the terminal area black, narrow- 
ing to tornus and with the termen orange with black points on it 
except towards apex. Underside of fore wing pale reddish, 
the basal half orange from below costa to submedian fold, the 
terminal half irrorated with red-brown except on inner area, 
a discoidal lunule defined by black, with some blackish 
suffusion beyond it and an oblique striga above it from costa, 
and postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to 
vein 4, then oblique ; hind wing orange, two black discoidal 
striae, medial and postmedial lines represented by black 
striae in discal fold and two in submedian fold, a subterminal 
black band except towards tornus and some whitish towards 
apex before the terminal series of black striae. 
Ab. 1. Fore whig greenish white to beyond the postmedial 
line. 
Hab. Br. Guiana, Demerara (Rodivay), 1 $ ; Brazil, 
Amazons, Para {Durham), 1 E type ; R. Purus, Pariti {Trail), 
1 $ ; Peru, Yahuarmayo, 1 $. Exp . 32-38 millim. 
