166 SYNTOMID^. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate, the medial part of shaft with thick 

 fringe of hair on iipperside ; palpi upturned ; hind wing with vein 3 

 from 2 before margin ; fore wing with vein 5 from above angle of cell. 



*330. Homoeocera lophocera. 



Homceocera lophoeera, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 402 (1898). 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; base of patagia and 

 shoulders with white patches ; tegulse and abdomen at sides with 

 blue points, the latter with the last two and part of third segments 

 scarlet ; the last four segments scarlet below, and the two segments 

 before them with blue and white sublateral spots ; wings hyaline, 

 the veins, and margins broadly, black. Fore wing with blue point 



Fig. 79. — Homxooera lophocera, ^. |. 



at base ; the f asciee on costa and inner margin expanding towards 

 base ; an oblique band from costa across discocellulars to tornus ; 

 black streaks in interspaces of terminal area varying in length. 

 Hind wing with the cell black ; the terminal band expanding 

 towards apex and below vein 2. 



Hah. Brazil, 2 S typef in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 50 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennas of male bipectinate, with very short branches. 



A. Legs scarlet ; abdomen with blue-black bands gigantea. 



B. Legs black. 



a. Fore wing with orange streaks below costa and above 



inner margin 



a}. Abdomen with white band on 1st segment tolosa. 



b^. Abdomen with two white points on 1st segment, and 



dorsal spots on medial segments sdciosoma. 



c^. Abdomen with lateral orange bands on medial 



segments sahacon. 



b. Fore wing without orange streaks. 



a^ Abdomen with yellow bands rodriguezi. 



6'. Abdomen with white spots acuminata. 



331. Homceocera gigantea. 



Gymnelia gigantea, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 54, pi. 8. f. 5 (1884) • 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 136. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; palpi and legs scarlet ; 

 abdomen -with dull blue dorsal bands ; wings hyaline, the veins, 

 basal area, and margins black. Fore wing with black discocellular 



