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black with some blue-green pile ; black fasciae on costa and inner 

 margin ; a discoidal black bar conjoined to costal fascia. Hind 

 wing hyaline, the veins and margins black ; the basal area and a 

 patch at tornus black ; the inner area white. 



Hah. Colombia, Eogota, 1 $ . Ewp. 72 millim. Typef in Coll. 

 Eothschild. 



Genus GYMNELIA. 



Type. 



G^mneliajWlk. i. 152(1852) (jemviifura. 



Andrcnimoiyha, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 382 



(1876) xanthoqasfra, 



Enioche, Druce, A. M. N. H. {()) xviii. p. 34 (18i)()) jyitthed. 



Sansaptera, Schaiis, J. N. York Ent. Soc. iv. p. 132 (ISyC))... cocho. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching vertex 

 of Lead, the 3rd short ; antenna; bipectinate vs-ith moderate branches, shorter 

 in female ; thorax woolly above ; tibia; with the spurs short ; abdomen of 

 male witli fan-shaped ventral valve covering the basal segments. Fore wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; ti from upper angle ; 7, 8, 

 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the discocellulars angled ; veins 

 2 and 4 stalked, 3 and 5 absent, or 3 given off just before margin ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle. 



Sect. I. (Enioche). Hind wing of male reduced to a small triangular rudiment. 



A. Fore coxoe white pitthea. 



B. Fore coxoj black cocho. 



* 386. Gymnelia pitthea. 



Enioche pitthea, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 34 (1896). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; palpi in front and patches 



on tegulse, metathorax, and fore 

 coxae at sides blue ; frons whitish ; 

 coxae white ; abdomen with 

 dorsal, subdorsal, and sublateral 

 series of blue spots. Fore wing 

 hyaline, the veins, and margins 

 broadly, black ; the basal area 

 j'jo. gg black with blue point ; the ter- 



Gymnelia pitthea, (S ■ \- minal band expanding towards 



apex ; a discoidal black bar. 

 Hind wing black, with subcostal blue patch on underside. 

 Hah. Peru. Exjy. 34 millim. Typef in Coll. Druce, 



387. Gymnelia cocho. (Plate VII. fig. 6.) 



Sansaptera cocho, Schaus, J. N. York Ent. Soc. iv. p. 132 (1896). 



S. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; frons blue, with lateral 

 white marks ; tegulao and patagia with white points ; fore coxae at 

 sides and tibite in front marked with blue ; hind coxae with white 

 and yellowish patches ; abdomen with dorsal, subdorsal, and sub- 



