(162) 



veins 4 and 6. Hindwing sooty brown-black slightly glossed with blue, with 



median vitreons band. 



Length of forewing : 19 mm. 



Hah. \\\o Demerara, British Gniana. 



55. Agyrta klagesi sp. nov. 



cJ. Pectus snow-white ; head bine, verte.\ and antennae black ; thorax 

 velvety black with glittering bhie-green spots on tegnlae and patagia ; abdomen 

 black, median line bine-grey, lateral rows of metallic green-blue spots. Fore- 

 wing velvety black, a white spot at ape.x, a semihyaline white oblique jiatcli 

 reaching from subcostal at apex of cell almost to three-rpiarters the length of vein 2 

 towards tornus, a brilliant blue-green streak from base one-third the length of 



wing on subcosta and a similar one on vein 1 for the basal half of its length. 



Hindwiug black, central area from base almost to tornus hyaline, a black hook on 

 discocellulars. 



? similar, but with shorter, blunter forewiugs. 



Length of forewing : S 19 mm., ? lT-5mm. 



Hab. La Vuelta, Caura River, May 1903 (type); Gnyapa, Canra River, 

 November 24 — December 10, 1902 ; Maripa, Caura River (S.M. Klages). 



56. Agyrta abdominalis sp. nov. 



(?. Pectus, outside of palpi, and underside of abdomen white ; head and 

 thorax black with white dots ; antennae black ; abdomen sooty black slightly 



glossed with bine, two subdorsal greyish white lines. Forewing black, a broad 



glittering blue band two-fifths along wing above vein 1, a hyaline patch in cell, 

 and a larger one below median vein, a hyaline oblique postdiscal band reaching from 



subcosta almost to termen at vein 3. Hindwing black with central hyaline 



band, abdominal area glittering blue. 



$ similar. 



Length of forewing: c? 15 mm., ? 17 mm. 



Hab. Humayta, Rio Madeira, July — September 1906 (W. Hoffmanns) (type) ; 

 Gourdonville, Kouroa River, Cayenne, September 1905 (E. Le Moult) ; Berg- 

 en-Daal, Surinam, April 1S92 (C. W. EUacombe) ; Suapure, Venezuela, 

 February 22, 1899. 



57. Agyrta buchwaldi sp. nov. 



cJ ? . Pectus white, underside of abdomen orange ; antennae black ; head, 



thorax, and abdomen deep blue. Forewing deep blne-pnrple, a hj'aline patch 



in cell, a large similar one from base above vein 1 to beyond middle of vein 2, 

 a similar hyaline spot above basal half of vein 2 ; an oblique hyaline patch at end 



of cell reaches from subcosta almost to termen at vein 3. Hindwing hyaline 



with wide deep blue-purple border. 



Length of forewing : cT 18 mm., ? 17 mm. 



Hab. Qnevedo, W. Ecuador (W. Bnchwald) (type) ; Cauanche, Candinamarca, 

 Colombia, August 1903 (M. de Mathan) ; Yungas de Coroica, Bolivia, 1800 metres 

 (Garlepp) ; Allianca, below San Antonio, Rio Madeira, November — December 1907 

 (W. Hoffmanns). 



