39-t srNxojiiD^. 



from below middle of discocelUdars ; 7 in male mach curved from well before 

 angle of cell, in female from angle ; the casta very highly arched in male, the 

 costgol area of hind wing above and inner area of fore wing below clothed with 

 silky scales, and with fringes of long hair on medial part of inner margin and 

 costa. 



A. Abdomen with sublateral white spot on 4th. segment. 



a. Palpi witli the 1st joint white ; back of head crimson ; 



pectus with wliite patches tractipennis. 



h. No white on palpi or pectus, or crimson on back of head ; 



mid and hiud coxee wliite surinamensis. 



B. Abdomen without white spot on 4th segment ustalata. 



873. Eriphioides tractipennis. 



Eriphia tractipennis, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 414 (1870) ; 

 Druce, Biol. Centr,-Am., Ilet. i. p. 69, pi. 7. f. 2" ; Kirov, Cat, Hot. 

 p. 159. 



Dark red-brown ; palpi wliite at base ; back of head, neck, and 

 patches on shoulders scarlet : tegulae, shoulders, and metathorax 

 with cupreous-green patches ; pectus and fore coxte with white 

 patches ; abdomen with dorsal and subdorsal series of cupreous- 

 green spots ; sublateral white patches on first three segments, and 

 a spot on 4th segment. Fore wing with the veins blackish ; the 

 costal area of hind wing above and the inner area of fore wing 

 covered by the costal lobe of hind wing, whitish ; patches of metallic 

 green on underside on disk of fore wing and on basal costal area of 

 hind Aviiig. 



Hab. NiCARAGrA, Chontales (J(«/isou), type ; Guatemala; Pan^ama 

 {Champion), Godman-Salvin Coll. E.vp. 36 niillim. 



874. Eriphioides surinamensis. 



Eriphia surinamensis. Moschl. Yerh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 6-10, 



pi. 8. ff. 11, 11 a (1877) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 159. 

 Eriphia tractipennis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. (59 (part), nee 



Butl. 



S . Black-brown ; patches of scarlet behind neck aud on frout of 

 pectus ; patches of metallic green on head, tegulte, shoulders, and 

 metathorax, and of white on coxae ; abdomen with dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal scries of cupreous-green spots ; sublateral white patches on 

 first three segments and a spot on 4th segment ; the costal area 

 of hind wing above and the inner area of fore wing below covered 

 by the costal lobe of hind wing, whitish ; metallic green patches 

 on underside on disk of fore wing and basal costal area of hind 

 wing. 



Hab. Panama {Champion, Rihbe), 2 J , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; 

 Colombia, Bogota {Stevens), L J ; Cayenne, typet in Coll. Staud- 

 inger. Exp. 42 millim. 



