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moderate; thorax woolly; abdoinon slender and dorsal ly clothed with rough 

 hair at base. Fore wing long and narrow, the apox jjroJucod; vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; (5 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 2 and 4 stalked, 3 from 2 near margin ; 

 5 obsolescent from angle of discocellular-s; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. Antennae fringed with rough scales above. 



720. Mydropastea cephalena. 



Eup%tm cephalena, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 372, pi. 30. f. 2; Kirby, Oat. 

 liet. p. 124. 



5 . Head and thorax black ; frons, tegulae, and shoulders wibh 

 white points ; pectus and coxte with white patches ; abdomen 



Y'xg. XA'd. ^Mydropastea cephalena, J. |, 



metallic blue-green, with cupreous subdorsal patches ; a pure white 

 dorsal band on 1st segment and lateral fasciae ; wings black- 

 brown. Fore wiug with the basal half of costal area suffused with 

 golden green and the inner area below the cell to near termen ; a 

 white point at base ; a wedge-shaped hj-aline patch below base of 

 vein 2 ; a small spot in upper end of cell ; two spots between veins 

 3 and 5, and a spot above vein 6 with a point below it. Hind wiug 

 with elongate hyaline patch below the cell and a large spot beyond 

 the cell. 



Hub. Colombia, 1 J ; Ecuador, Sarayacu (Bucklei/). Exp. 44 

 miliim. Type t in Coll. Druce. 



Sect. II. Antennie not fringed with rough scales above. 



A. Fore wing with hyaline spots. 



a. Abdomen with lateral and sublateral white spots ni/lva. 



b. Abdomen with sublateral white fasciis ; tibiae streaked 



with white salmoni. 



B. Fore wing without hyaline spots. 



a. Fore wing suffused with metallic blue ; tegulaj and base 



of abdomen pure white albicincta. 



b. Fore wing suffused with golden green. 



a^. Abdomen with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series 



of bluish-white points bacckan.i. 



i'. Abdomen with subdorsal series of yellowish patches 



and sublateral scries of spots aurata. 



