282 



SrNTOMID^. 



thorax fulvous orange above, the patagia black at tips. Fore wing 

 with two minute white points at base. 



Fig. 129. — Scena potentia, (^. \. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa {Trujillo), 1 cJ ; Costa. Rica {Underwood), 

 1 cf J Godman-Salvin CoU. Exp. 36 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing with veins 2 and 4 from cell. 



624. Scena styx. 



Euchromia styx, Wlk. i. 264 (18.54), nee Fabr. ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 119. 

 Scena propyUa, Drace, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 170 (1894); Biol. Oentr. 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 334, pi, 70. f. 26. 



Head and thorax clothed with orange-red hair ; antennae black ; 

 tegulae with opalescent purple spots ; hind tarsi white towards 

 extremity ; abdomen black, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series 



Fig. 130. — Scetia styx, ^. \. 



of metallic blue spots ; wings black. Fore wing with metallic blue 

 marks at base and on discocellulars. Underside with metallic blue 

 streaks on the veins forming the cell of both wings and the base 

 of nervules. 



Hah. Mexico, 1 S , Jalapa, 1 S , type. Eccp. 50 millim. Type t 

 propylea in Coll. Druce. 



Genus MICRAGYRTA. ,^ 



Type. 



Micragyrta, Bull. Oist. Ent. ii. p. 1 14 (1870) diminuta. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint long and 

 reaching vertex of head, the 3rd minute ; antennae of female biserrate, ending 

 in bristles ; tibiae with the spurs short. Fore wing moderately broad ; vein 3 

 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 

 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with veins 2 and 3 on a long stalk from angle of 

 cell ; 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent, from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 

 both wings with a veinlet in cell. 



