. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 36 AECIIADiE. with crimson and fuscous above ; patagia and thorax with rufous spots; tibia and tarsi with fuscous points ; abdomen crimson, the extremity yellow, the ventral surface white. Pore wing bright yellow with crimson-edged basal and three subbasal spots ; an antemedial series of irregular con- joined spots connected with toruus by a similar series; twodiscoidalpoints and a series beyond cell Fig. 28.—Amaxiapardalis, c^. \. between veins 3 and 8; a postm
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 36 AECIIADiE. with crimson and fuscous above ; patagia and thorax with rufous spots; tibia and tarsi with fuscous points ; abdomen crimson, the extremity yellow, the ventral surface white. Pore wing bright yellow with crimson-edged basal and three subbasal spots ; an antemedial series of irregular con- joined spots connected with toruus by a similar series; twodiscoidalpoints and a series beyond cell Fig. 28.—Amaxiapardalis, c^. \. between veins 3 and 8; a postmedial obliquely curved series, of which three below costa are large and elongate and with some oblique spots beyond them from apex ; a subterminal series of small spots. Hind wing white, tinged with crimson towards inner margin and yellow towards termen. Hah, Amazons, Ega (Bates), 1 d* type. Exp. 38 millim. *1242. Amaxia ? divisa. Creatonotus divisu?, Aussereur. Schmett. f. 282 (1850); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 197. S. Head, thorax, and abdomen deep crimson. Fore wing deep crimson, a white point at base ; two sinuous darker lines arising from middle of cell, the 1st incurved, the 2nd excurved; the crimson extends on costa to well beyond middle and to termen at submedian fold, its edge being strongly incurved between those points ; the terminal area pale yellow, with a crimson apical patch extending to vein 5. Hind wing with the costal half hyaline, the inner half red, with two short hyaline postmedial streaks below vein 2. Hah. ignotus. Exp. 38 millim. This species is unknown to me. Genus EVIUS. Type. Evius, Wlk. iii. 639 (1855) aurococcinea. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint nunute ; antennse of male fasciculate, tibiae with the spurs short; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 4, 5 separate at origin; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from
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