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cilia grey, with a brown line along their base; underside brown, with greenish grey reflections. 
Abdomen brown. Legs bronzy brown, with three white tarsal bands. 
Type 2 (4719, Las Vigas) Mus. Wism. BM. [P7. (66691) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Las Vigas, 8000 ft., 1887 (W. Schaus\—GuaTEMaLa : 
QUEZALTENANGO : Cerro Zunil, 4600-5000 ft., 1880 (G. C. Champion). ‘Two specimens. 
2. Tortyra fulgens F. & R. 
Choregia fulgens F. & R. Reise Nov. Zool-Lp. 2 Pf. 140-17 (1875)'; Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 13 
192-5 sp. 1 (1877)*. Tortyra fulgens Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 529 (1892)°: 1897 
121 sp. 161 (1897) *. 
Type 3 (1913: 86, Bogota) Roths. Coll. (Fldr. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—MEXICO: MICHOACAN : Uruapan, IIT. 1906 
(W. Schaus)—Costa Rica: San Francisco de Guadalupe, XI. 1896 (Mus. Joannis). 
South America ““—Cotomsia **: cunpinamarca’*; Bogota (Lindig)', IIL? (Baron v. 
Nolcken)*?; Fusagasuga (B. v. Nolcken)?; Pandi (B. v. Nolcken)?—Brazu.': 
MATTO GROsso*~*: Cubaja, 1823 (Watterer)'?: Curte* (=Parv*): Tana‘: Arica, 
® Ficus sp. (Kenderdine) *. 
8. Tortyra argentifascia, sp. n. 
=* Tortyra spectabilis (p.) Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 28 510 sp. 1 (1863) *. 
Antennae clothed with bright purple scales to two-thirds, thence shining, silvery. Palpi shining, steel-grey. 
Head shining, steel-green. Thorax shining, iridescent steel-grey, with a dark purplish fuscous line 
down each side, just within the tegulae. Jorewings dark fuscous, profusely covered with minute 
transverse steel-grey strigulae, which, beyond the middle, are broken up into fine dusting, impinging, 
especially towards the costa, upon the brilliant coppery purple which overflows the whole outer third of 
the wing; a little before the middle is a brightly shining steel-grey fascia, narrow and nearly straight, 
slightly iridescent, and narrowly bordered on either side by dark purplish fuscous ; a small, shining, 
steel-grey patch, at the base of the wing, is bounded on its outer edge with black, but only above the 
fold ; cilia dark, shining, bronzy fuscous, with greenish reflections. Hap. al.135 mm. Hindwings 
dark tawny brown, the cilia beyond their brown base pale leaden grey. Addomen dark brownish 
fuscous. Legs dark purplish fuscous, with white annulations. 
Type 2 (66692, Atoyac) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. (PTT. (5942-4, 5947-8) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America— Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, IV. (7. ZH. 
Smith); Cordova, V. 1908 (fF. Knab); Jalapa (W. Schaus): oaxaca: Salina Cruz 
(W. Schaus). South America’—Braziu’*: para’: Parad (H. W. Bates); Santarem 
(H. W. Bates)*: amazoys': Ega (H. W. Bates)*. Thirteen specimens. 
This species differs from fulgens F. & R. and chalcodes Wl1sm. in the narrower and 
paler metallic fascia before the middie, and in the steely spot at the base of the 
forewings. Tortyra spectabilis Wkr. was described from six specimens, of these 
6 (Ega) and f (Santarem) belong to argentifascia Wlsm., as does also an added 
specimen from Paré—the other specimens in Walker's series are at once distinguished 
by the fascia being of the ground-colour of the wing. | 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. [V., November 1914. 2 ss 
