168 



STNTOMID^. 



orange streaks below basal half of costa and above base of inner 

 margin. Hind wiug with dentate black marks on termen at 

 vein 1. 



Eah. PAifAMA, Chiriqui, 1 $ . Exp. 48 millim. Type t in Coll. 

 Staudinger. 



335. Hoinceocera rodrignezi. 



Homceocera rodriguezi, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 494 ; Druce, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 340, pi. 71. f. 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 133. 



Head and thorax black ; fore coxae with white spots ; abdomen 



black, with rather broad 

 yellow segmental bands ; 

 a white spot on ventral 

 valve of male ; wings 

 hyaline, the veins and 

 margins black. Fore wing 

 with the base black ; a 

 discoidal black band. 

 Hind wing with the 



terminal band expanding very widely between veins 1 and 2. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (TrujUIo) : Guatemala {Rodriguez), type 



Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 42 millim. 



Fig. 80. — Homaocera rodriguezi, c? . 



336. Homceocera acuminata. 



Laqaria acuminata, Wlk. vii. 1608 (1856) ; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 142. 

 Gartha dalsa, Schaus, Am. Lep. i. pi. 1. f. 15 (1892). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen velvety black ; antenna? white 

 at tips: palpi white at base; frons, tegulae, and shoulders with 

 white spots edged with metallic blue ; vertex of head, tegulse, and 

 legs with patches of metallic blue ; fore cox® white ; abdomen 

 with paired dorsal white spots and lateral blue and white spots on 

 1st segment, dorsal and lateral spots on 2nd segment, and dorsal 

 blue spots on the other segments ; the ventral valve with curved 

 white band ; sKght white spots at extremity ; wings hyaline, the 

 veins and margins black. Fore wing with the base black with 

 blue points. Hind wing with the terminal band expanding 

 irregularly between vein 2 and torn us. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, 1 6 ■ Exp. 42 millim. Type t in 

 Mus. Oxon. : type t dalsa in Coll. Schaus. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male with tlie medial part serrate. 



337. Homceocera crassa. 



Eomaocera crassa, Felcl. Reis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 26 (1874); Druce, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 339; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 132. 



Head and thorax black; vertex of head, tegulae, shoulders, an 



