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SYNTOMIDJE. 



greenish streak below its extremity. Hind wing with small hyaline 

 patch below base of cell. Underside of fore wing with rufous streak 

 below costa, towards apex. 



Hah. Ajiazons, 1 $ type in Mas. Oxon. Exp. 52 millim. 



Genus XANTHOPLEURA, nov. 



Type, X. trotscJii. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned and hardly reaching vertex of head, 

 the 3rd joint minute ; uutennaj bipectiuate, witli moderate branches dilated at 

 extremity ; tibiae with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with vein 3 from near 

 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 ; vein 2 from long before angle; 

 3, 4 from angle ; .5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 8 present as a short rudiment. 



A. Abdomen without yellow band on 1st segment. 



a. Fore wing with hyaline spot above base of vein 2 perspictM. 



b. Fore wing without hyaline spot above vein 2 trotschi. 



B. Abdomen with yellow band on 1st segment Jlavocincfa. 



942. Xanthopleura perspicua, 



Calonotas perspicua, Wlk. vii. 1627 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 125. 

 Calonotos sandion, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 373 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 125. 



Black: frous, back of head, shoulders, end of patagia, vertex of 

 thorax, pectus, and coxae with white spots ; abdomen tinged with 

 greenish ; broad subdorsal and sublateral greenish-yellow fasciae. 

 Fore wing with two hyaline streaks in cell ; a streak below the 

 cell ; a spot above the base of vein 2, and a series of four elongate 

 spots beyond the cell between veins 3 and 7, the two lower largest. 

 Hind wing with hj'aline streaks in and below the cell, and two 

 small spots beyond the cell. 



Hah. CoLOBiBiA ; Ecuadoe {Buckley), 1 J typef sandion in Coll. 

 Druce ; Amazons, 1 cJ , Para {Bates), typef $ in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 

 54 millim, 



943. Xanthopleura trotschi. 



CalonotoR trotschi, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 44, pi. 8. f. 8(1884) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 125. 



Fig. 227. — Xanthopleura trotschi, 5 • r- 

 $ . Black ; palpi, frous, vertex of head, mesothorax, shoulders, 



