. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 200 LITHOSIAD^. *1346«. Hyperthasma ruberrima. Hyperthsema ruberrima, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xsix. p. 221 (1905). Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. J. Head, thorax, and abdomen brilliant crimson ; antennae brown; tegulae with small black spots; tibia; and tarsi blackish slightly streaked with white, the 1st joint of fore and mid tarsi and the medial joints of hind tarsi white ; abdomen with lateral and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing brilliant crimson ; a black point with white points on each side of i


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 200 LITHOSIAD^. *1346«. Hyperthasma ruberrima. Hyperthsema ruberrima, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xsix. p. 221 (1905). Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. J. Head, thorax, and abdomen brilliant crimson ; antennae brown; tegulae with small black spots; tibia; and tarsi blackish slightly streaked with white, the 1st joint of fore and mid tarsi and the medial joints of hind tarsi white ; abdomen with lateral and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing brilliant crimson ; a black point with white points on each side of it at base of median. Fig. 74.—Hyperth&ma ruberrima, J- {• nervure; a round white spot edged with black below the eel 1 before middle, a similar spot beyond the cell between veins 6 and 4; cilia brown. Hind wing white, with some crimson hair at base; the costal and inner areas towards termen, the veins of terminal area and the termen fuscous brown. llab. Fb. GrUIAS \. St. Jean Maroni. type f 6 in Xat. Mus. Exp. 12 millim. *1347 a. Ochrodota funebris. Ochrodota funebris, Roths. A. M. N. H. (8) iv. p. 225 (19091 ; id. Nov. Zool. xviii. pi. 5. f. 1. J. Head and thorax dark red-brown; coxae yellowish white; abdomen black-brown with the ventral surface yellowish white. Fore wing deep red-brown with numerous pale strife; a pure white spol below base of costa; the discoeellulars slightly darker; traces ,>f a postmedial series of dark striae with two white points below costa, excurved to vein 1, then oblique: a subtcrminal white point below costa and traces of some dark stria: and points. Hind wing dark brown; the underside paler. llah. Peru, Huanuco, Pozuzu (Hoffmans), type t 6 in Coll. Rothschild. JZxjp. 30 millim. *1347 b. Ochrodota atra. Ochrodota atra, Roths. A. 'lH) iv. p. 207"(1909); id. Nov. Zool. xvii. pi. 12. f. 5. d. Head and thorax very dark brown, the back of head, tegulie at base, and prothorax with small orange spots; palpi yellowish at. Pleas


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