332 LITITOSIAD.E. 



1622 a. Beleiniiiastis eucyane. 



/.' mis eucyane. Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 14 (1875), nee f. 16. 



cJ. Head, thorax, and abdomen black suffused with brilliant 

 metallic blue : patagia with slight whitish streak and edged with 

 whitish: frons with slight white marks at sides below; legs grey- 

 brown streaked with whitish : ventral surface of abdomen crimson 

 with white segmental lines and some white on anal segment. Fore 

 wing black, the basal half with brilliant metallic blue fascia' 

 occupying the greater part of the interspaces ; an oblique crimson 

 band from below middle of costa to above inner margin towards 

 tornus, pointed at lower extremity ; an oblique crimson band from 

 below costa beyond middle to near termen above vein 3. Hind 

 wing black with brilliant metallic blue fascia- on basal half, on 

 vein 1 extending almost to termen : a crimson subterminal spot 

 from just above vein -1 to above 2 ; the underside with metallic 

 blue postmedial spot below costa : the cilia white towards tornus 

 and the hair on inner margin white. 



Sab. Brazil, type t 6 in Coll. Rothschild, Amazons. R. 

 Madeira, Allianca (HoJF/iiaiinx). 1 6 ■ Exp. 42 millim. 



Genus CHLOEOCRISIA. 



Type. 

 Chlorocrisia, hinpsn. A.. M.N. H. Si viii. p. 408 • 1 1 1 u 



Proboscis aborted, minute : palpi porrect. short, fringed with long hair 

 below ; a long flattened downcurved corneous spine from between antennae, 

 pointed at extremity: eyes large, round ; antennas of male bipectinate with 

 moderate branches to apex ; thorax clothed with long hair : tibiae fringed with 

 long hair, the hind tibia? with two pairs of spiirs ; abdomen dorsally clothed 

 with long hair towards base. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved : vein 3 from near angle of cell : 4. 5 from angle ; 6 from Upper 

 angle ; 7, i 9 -' dked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hing wing with vein.- 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell : 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



In key differs from Apantesis in the frons having a long flattened down- 

 turned spine from between the antennae. 



*1626 ■'. Chlorocrisia irrorata. 



Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 119, pi. li. f. 10 (191 



J. Head, teguhe, and patagia pale yellow-green, the palpi and 

 • of frons brown, the antennae rutous, the tegulse with some 

 brown hair at middle, the patagia with brown patches; dorsum of 

 thorax chocolate-brown with some green hair on metathoras ; pectus 

 ochreous white with some orange-yellow hair: legs ochreous white 

 and brown ; abdomen clothed with ochreous white hair and orange 

 hair dorsally on basal segments. Fore wing pale yellow-g 

 thickly irrorated with chocolate-brown, the basal half of c 

 median nervure, and vein 1 with brown streak- ; antemedial line 

 brown, diffused, angled outwards at submedian fold to the diffused 

 sinuous brown medial line; a brown discoidal lunule ; postmedial line 

 brown, angled outwards at vein 1 !•> towards termen, then incurved 



