368 



X0CTCIDJ3. 



4819. Oxythres splendens. 



Oxythres splendens, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) v. p. 517 (1900). 

 Head fuscous with some rufous between antennae; palpi rufous, 

 the 3rd joint black; antenna? tinged with purplish; thorax white 

 tinged with pale purplish brown ; pectus in front and legs fuscous, 

 the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen whitish tinged with fuscous, 

 the sides blackish, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing pinkish 

 white, the interspaces suffused with chestnut-red except on costal 

 area, deepest in cell and paler towards inner margin and termen, 

 the costal edge red ; antemedial line obsolete on costal area, then 

 chestnut, double filled in with whitish, strongly angled outwards 

 in submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli and 



Fig. 166.— Oxythres splendens, J. \. 



white lines in centres, the former oblique elliptical extending to 

 well below cell, the latter rather S-shaped ; five lunulate whitish 

 lines on terminal half, obsolete on costal area and oblique below 

 vein 4 ; a triangular black patch on costa towards apex ; cilia 

 whitish. Hind wing pure seniihyaline white with some fuscous on 

 costa at apex. Underside of fore wing white, the costal area 

 suffused with pink to snbterminal line with fuscous suffusion below 

 it to submedian fold, a diffused curved postmedial line from costa 

 to vein 2, red on costal area, then blackish, a diffused blackish 

 subterminal curved band from costa to vein 2 ; hind wing with 

 fuscous marks on costa at middle and towards apex. 



Hah. Colombia, 1 $ ; Peru, in Coll. Dognin. Exp. tf 44, 

 5 48 millim. Type f in Coll. Druce. 



Genus EUTERPIA. 



Type. 



lauded. 



Enterpia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1850, p. 235 



Eulerpia, Guen. Noct. ii. p. .171(1852) lauded. 



Proboscis Cully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint not 

 reaching middle of Irons and fringed with rather long hair in front, the 3rd 

 short • Irons smooth ; eyes large, round : antennas of male ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with hair only and without crests; tibiae moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded ; the terinen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



