ANTICHLORIS. METHYSIA. 



401 



lateral white spots ; siiblateral white stripes on first three segments 

 followed by sijots. Hind wing with the costal half nearly pure 

 white. 



Hah. Amazons, Santarem (Bates), 1 J type. E,vj). 42 millim. 



Seot. II. Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of cell. 



889. Antichloris panacea. 



Antichloris -panacea, Di'uce, Biol. Oentr,-Am., Het. i. p. 68, pi. 8. t'. 17 

 (1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 159. 



c? • Dull cupreous 

 brown ; shoulders with 

 large crimson spots ; fore 

 coxae with metallic blue 

 patches ; abdomen shot 

 with blue above. Hind 

 wing dirty white, with 

 terminal fuscous band 

 expanding below vein 2. 



Fig. 204. — Antichloris panacea, (j". 

 5 . Hind wing fuscous brown. 



Hah. CosTA KiCA (Rogers), 2 (5' , 2 $ , type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 E.vjp. 42 millim. 



Genus METHYSIA. 



Type. 



Methysia, Butl. Journ. Linn. See., Zool. xii. p. 397 (1876) nofahilis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi iqjturned ; antennas bipectinate, witlv 

 moderate branches ; tibiie with the spurs sliort ; abdomen with the 2ud segment 

 somewhat constricted, the terminal segment with lateral tufts. Fore wing with 

 vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ;. 

 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell ; the area below submedian fold in male clothed 

 on underside with smooth white scales, with an elongate patcli of hairy scaling 

 on medial part of vein 1. Hind wing narrow in male and aborted, the costal 

 area to median nervure clothed with smooth white scales on upperside and the 

 costa curled over ; cell long ; veins 2 and 3 from a point before angle ; 4 from 

 5 just before margin ; 6, 7 on a long stalk. 



890. Methysia notabilis. 



Glmico2ns notabilis, Wlk. i. 144 (18.54); Butl. 111. Het. i. p. ,36, \A. 7. f. 11 

 (1877) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 148. 



Head and abdomen black ; thorax above except teguhio fulvous 



orange ; thorax and abdo- 

 men below, and parts of 

 legs, white. Pore wing 

 hyaline, the veins and mar- 

 gins bhick ; the inner area 

 up to submedian fold black 

 above, white below ; blac£: 

 streaks in interspaces of 

 terminal area from vein 4 to 

 costa, the streak in discal 

 Hind wing with the area from costa to median 



2d 



Fig. 205. — Methysia v.ofahilis, J . 



fold running to cell. 



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