292 SYNTOMIDiE. 



Genus DYCLADIA. 



Type. 



Dycladia, Feld. Reis. Not. pi. 102. f. 20 (1874), noii. descr. ... corrchioides.^ 



Proboscis well-developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head, the 3rd moderate and porrect ; antenna; with the shaft thickened at 

 middle, bipectinate, with short branches dilated at extremity ; tibi;\? with the 

 spurs short. Fore wing rather long and narrow; vein 3 from before angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell long ; veins 2 and 4 from angle; 3 from 4 near margin ; 

 5 obsolescent ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Abdomen with orange lateral stripes. 



a)-. Pore and hinrl wings without yellow markings melana. 



6^. Fore and hind wings with yellow markings lucetius. 



B. Abdomen with yellow lateral patche.5 at base only correbioides. 



647. Dycladia melaena, u. sp. (Plate XI. fig. 8.) 



2 . Black ; antennae white towards tips ; back of head and tegulae 

 with orange patches ; abdomen with lateral orange fasciae of con- 

 joined spots. Fore wing with small obsolescent semihyaline patch 

 in cell and elongate patch below the cell ; short semihyaline streaks 

 between veins 3 and 7, the lowest nearly reaching termen. Hind 

 wing with hyaline streak below the cell ; a slight streak in lower 

 end of cell, and small spots above and below vein 4. 



Hah. Bolivia, Eio Songo {Garlepp)., 1 5 type. Exp. 24 miUim. 



Subsp. 1. Fore wing without the hyaline patches in and below 

 cell. 



Hah. Brazil, Leopoldina, Coll. Staudinger. 



648. Dycladia lucetius. 



Sphinx lucetius, StoU, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 357. D (1781) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 145. 

 Eurata transiens, Wlk. vii. 1615 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 145. 



(J . Head black, with the base of palpi and two patches on vertex 

 orange ; antennae white at tips ; thorax black, with orange at base 

 of tegulae and patagia ; abdomen black, with broad lateral orange 

 stripes, the extremity blue-black. Fore wing with the veins yelloAv ;. 

 yellow fasciae below base of costa and above inner margin, the latter 

 yellow-brown outwardly ; hyaline streaks in and below cell ; a large 

 black discocellular spot with yellow-brown below it ; the outer half 

 of inner area black ; four hyaline streaks beyond the cell ; a very large 

 apical black patch edged with yellow, and with a j-ellow marginal 

 spot between it and the inner black area. Hind wing hyaline, with 

 some yellow at base of costal and inner margins ; the terminal black 

 band very wide on apical area and towards tornus. 



2 with the yellow-brown on fore wing replaced bj' black. 



Hob. Brazil, Sao Paulo (Jones), 2 J ; Lk. Amazons, Chaves 

 (Austen), 1 $ . Exj}. 22-28 millim. Type f transiens in Mus. Oxon,. 



