210 SYNTOMIDiE. 



margins black ; the terminal band broad at apex of fore wing and 

 expanding somewhat at tornus of fore wing and apex of hind wing. 

 Hah. Mexico, Tcapa, Tabasco : Ho-dtjras, 2 § (//. 11. Smith), 

 t3'pe, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 20 millim. 



*435. Loxophlebia postflavia. (Plate VIII. fig. 4.) 

 Loxophlebia postflavia, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 407 (1898). 



(S . Head and thorax black ; frons and fore and hind coxfe 

 white ; abdomen black, with the last four segments orange and the 

 terminal part of 5th, except on dorsum and ventral surface ; wings 

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

 and iuner fasciae expanding and meeting at base ; the terminal band 

 •expanding widely on apical area and slightly at tornus. Hind wing 

 with the terminal band expanding slightly towards apex ; the inner 

 area black, with slight hyaline streak. 



Hah. CayeNiNe, 1 J , type t in Mus. Oxon. Ex2). 28 millim. 



Sect. II. Abdomen of male without ventral valve ; palpi short and not reaching 

 vertex of bead, tbe .'^rd joint minute. 



A. Wings hyaline, with narrow black margins. 



a. Abdomen banded with orange and blue above vesparis. 



h. Abdomen black above. 



a^. Abdomen with the ventral surface orange asmodeiis, 



b^. Abdomen with the ventral surface white ... eumonides. 



B. Wings black, with three wedge-shaped liyaline spots on 



fore wing and a small spot at base of hind wing triangulifera. 



436. Loxophlebia vesparis. 



Pcecilosoma vesparis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xii. p. 227 (1873) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 135. 



(5 . Palpi orange ; frons orange and black ; antennae black ; 



vertex of head blue-black ; thorax black mixed with orange ; 



abdomen orange, with blue-edged black bands expanding into 



dorsal spots ; the terminal 

 segments blue banded with 

 black, the anal segment 

 orange below ; wings hya- 



line, the veins and margins 

 narrowly black. Fore wing 

 tinged with orange towards 

 Fig. 100. — Loxophlebia vesparis, (^ . \. base below costa and above 



inner margin ; the terminal 

 line expanding slightly at apex. Hind wing with orange streak on 

 inner margin. 



5 . Fore wing with discoidal black spot ; the terminal band 

 expanding into spots on fore wing at apex and below veins 6 and 

 2, and on hind wing below vein 6. 



ffab. Peett, Huasampilla, 9000 feet, 1 c? ( Whitely), type ; Bolivia, 

 ■$ Coll. Staudinger. Fap. 32 millim. 



