ii8 Lloyd's natural historv. 



within the cell, the inner one metallic green, the outer one 

 hyaline-white, richly glossed with emerald-green ; a quadrate 

 green-glossed hyaline spot immediately beyond the cell ; a long 

 oblique tapering green-glossed hyaline streak from the median 

 vein just below the double discoidal spot almost to the ex- 

 ternal angle ; in some specimens, however, this streak is widely 

 interrupted in the middle, leaving only two small spots ; a sub- 

 costal metallic green streak, from the centre of which a trans- 

 verse irregular green-glossed hyaline band runs almost to the 

 outer margin at about the apical fourth; costal border of second- 

 aries rufous-brown ; a small hyaline-white sub-costal spot, 

 followed by a metallic emerald-green streak ; an oblique cunei- 

 form trifid green-glossed hyaline-white spot across the middle; 

 two large patches almost filling the interno-median and the 

 abdominal areoles, and a minute spot near outer margin on 

 the second median interspace ; thorax blue-black ; frons and 

 vertex of head metallic emerald-green ; collar above with two 

 large spots of metallic golden-green ; a triangular dorsal spot of 

 the same colour ; posterior half of patagia metallic fiery-copper ; 

 meta-thorax and the two basal segments of abdomen metallic 

 golden-green ; the two following segments deep brick-red 

 edged with black ; remaining segments blue-black, banded in 

 front with metallic emerald-greeen ; primaries below purplish 

 towards the base, otherwise nearly as above ; secondaries with 

 a broad metallic green costal stripe from base to apex ; pectus 

 bronze-brown sprinkled with metallic green scales; legs blackish- 

 brown, the coxae of the first pair and the tibiae of the other 

 pairs with a large white spot ; venter blue-black, with two un- 

 equal central white spots." (^Butler,) 



SUB-FAMILY II. CTENUCHIN^. 



This is another American group ; one species is common 

 in the United States, and others are found in various parts of 



