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432. Loxophlebia diaphana. 



Glaucophis diaphana, Sepp, Ins. .Surinain. ii. p. 185, pi. 81 (1848) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 147. 

 Glaucopis disc/fera, Wlk. i. 178 (1854); Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 145. 

 Lcemocharls bura, Eutl. 111. Het. i. p. 'd'i, pi. 11. f. 12 (nee Hei-r.-Scliiiff.). 

 Chri/sostoJa albifrons, Moschl. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 344 (1872). 



c? . Head, thorax, aud abdomen black-toown ; teguUc orange : 

 patagia fringed with orange ; Irons and coxpc whitish ; abdomen 

 with broad orange lateral bands, the ventral valve yellowish ; wings 

 hyaline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing with discoeellular 

 black lunule ; the terminal band very wide on apical area and 

 expanding at tornus. Hind wing with the terminal band wide on 

 apical area. 



Hah. Amazons, Para, 1 S (Bates), type disci/era. Exp. 24 

 raillim. Type t albifrons, in Coll. Staudinger. 



Larva. Yellowish with brown subdorsal stripes ; head brown ; 

 tubercles with sparse tufts of hair ; 1st somite with long porrect 

 tufts the 4th and 10th with large subdorsal tufts, the intermediate 

 somites with thick short tufts. 



Food-plant, a species of Serjania or Paullinia, N.O. Sapindacecv. 



*433. Loxoplilebia crocata. 



Lmmocharis crocata, Herr.-SehiifF. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 248 (1854) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 141. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; frons white above ; 

 teguloe, patagia, meso- and metathorax with crimson-red patches ; 

 fore coxag whitish ; abdomen with slight subdorsal greyish streaks 

 on 1st segment, the 3rd and 4th segments with subdorsal red spots ; 

 wings hyaline, the veins, aud margins rather broadly, black. Fore 

 wing with short red streaks at base below costa and above inner 

 margin ; a discoidal black bar ; the terminal band expanding widely 

 at tornus and on apical area. Hind wing with the inner and 

 apical areas black. 



S . The spots on tegulae whitish, the orange patches on meso- 

 and metathorax and below base of costa of fore wing wanting ; 

 ventral valve white. 



Hah. Cayenne, 1 cT in Mus. Oxon.; Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 ^ 

 Coll. Schaus. Exp. 30 millim. 



434. Loxophlebia masa. 



LcBViocharis masa, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) iv. p. 83 (1882) ; Biol. Centr - 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 341, pi. 71. f. 10; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 137. 



§ . Black ; palpi in front, frons, and a ring round neck white : 

 orange-red patches on metathorax and below base of patagia ; legs 

 with streaks of white, the tarsi mostly white ; abdomen witli 

 lateral patches of white at base ; wings liyaline, the veins and 



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