mxopsyche. 51 



Sect. II. Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 from a point. 



A. Tegulae orange ; abdomen with dorsal orange stripe idda. 



B. Tegula3 and abdomen blue-black victorina. 



C. Tegulffi with white patches ; abdomen with white lines on 



1st and 5th segments elachista. 



*47. Myopsyche idda. (Plate 1. fig. 27.) 



Syntomis idda, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1880, p. 79; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 105. 



2 . Black-brown ; palpi, frons, teguloe, patag-ia, and metathorax 

 orange ; pectus and legs orange and brown ; abdomen with dorsal, 

 lateral, and ventral orange fasciae formed by conjoined triangular 

 spots and not reaching extremity. Pore wing with large wedge- 

 shaped hyaline patch in cell ; an elongate patch below the cell 

 extending almost to termen, and elongate spots above veins 3, 4, 6, 

 and 7. Hind wing with the base of costa tinged with orange ; a 

 hyaline patch below the ceU and between veins 2 and 5. 

 Hub. Cameeoons, in Mus. Stockholm. Ex^). 26 millim. 



*48. Myopsyche victorina. 



Si/ntomis victorina, P15tz, Stett. Eut. Zeit. 1880, p. 78 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 105. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black sufi'used with metallic 

 blue-green ; antennae white at tips ; white points at base of palpi 



and behind antennte; 1st 

 joint of tarsi and hind coxae 

 white ; abdomen with some 

 white at base of ventral sur- 

 face ; wings hyaline, with 

 the veins and margins nar- 

 rowly black ; the triangular 

 Fig.22.—Mi/o-psi/che victorina, 2- h interspace between veins 2 



and 3 and tornus black ; 

 veins 5 and 6 approximated, and the interspace between them 

 almost entirely black ; a large apical black patch. 



Plotz describes the male as having two narrow white bands on 

 abdomen. 



Bab. Camerooks, in Mus. Stockholm. Ea;p. 30 millim. 



*49. Myopsyche elachista. (Plate I. fig. 28.) 

 Syntomis elachista, HoUand, Psyche, vi. p. 375 (1893). 



2 . Black ; frons, patagia, and pectus with white patches ; ab- 

 domen with narrow white bands on 1st and 5th segments, the 

 ventral surface with three bauds. Fore wing with wedge-shaped 

 hyaline patch in cell ; an elongate patch below the cell extending 

 almost to termen, and elongate spots between veins 3 and 5 and 



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