338 SYNTOMID^. 



and legs with patches of metallic blue scales ; abdomen with lateral 

 series of small blue spots. Fore wing with blue point at base. 



Hab. St. Ltjcia; Ecuador, Guayaquil (Z>oZ6y Tijhr),lS . Exp, 

 34 millim. Typef in Mus. Stockholm; typef nox in Coll. Druce. 



Genus DINIA. Type. 



Dinia, Wlk. i. 189 (1854) ceagrus. 



Lasioprocfa, Wallengr. (Efv. Vet.-Akad. Forbandl. xv. p. 135 



(1858) subapkalis. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi uptui'ned, reaching vertex of head ; antenuje 

 bipectinate, with moderate branches, the shaft dilated at middle and fringed 

 with hair above, the branches in female short, dilated at extremity and ending 

 in a bristle ; tibiae with the spurs moderate ; abdomen broad, flattened, the 3rd 

 to terminal segments with large lateral tufts of hair ; a large anal tuft. Fore 

 wing broad ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 separate at origin ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with the cell very long; veins 

 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 6 from well below upjoer angle. 



A. Abdomen with the lateral tufts crimson ; no orange on inner 



margin of fore wing belovv or on costa of hind wing above. 



a. Fore wing with silvery blue spots at base ceagrus, 



h. Fore wing with sliort crimson streaks at base below costa and 



median nervure mena. 



B. Abdomen with the lateral tufts black ; the inner margin of 



fore wing below and costa of hind wing above orange subapicalis. 



745. Dinia aeagrus. 



Sphinx (sagrm. Cram. Pap. Esot. iii. pi. 198. C (1779) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.- 



Am., Het. i. p. 63; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 151. 

 Glaticopis auge, Wlk. i. 189 (nee Linn.). 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown, the last slightly 

 shot with blue, the lateral and anal tufts bright crimson, the tufts 

 on anal segment more or less mixed with brown ; coste white ; 

 wings hyaline, the veins and margins black-brown. Fore wing 

 with two silvery blue spots at base ; a brown fascia on inner margin 



Fig. 158. — Dinia aagrus, S • \- 



with crimson streak on its medial part ; a more or less developed 

 discocellular black bar. Hind wing -with rather broad terminal 

 black band with waved inner edge. 



5 without white on coxae. 



Hah. Mexico, Cordova, Jalapa, Coatepec, Orizaba, Guerrero, Vera 

 Cruz, Tabasco, Durango (Rmneli, Byools, Hoege, Trujillo, Smith, 

 Godman, Ehves) ; Guatemala, Vera Paz {Champion) ; Costa Rica, 

 Irazu {Rogers), Santa Clara (Z^<rc/ter); Nicaragua, Ghonidles {Belt); 



