IXYLASIA. 



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Sect. I. Abdomen of uialo with lateral tuft? of long liair from base. 



947. Ixylasia trogonoides. 

 Aclytia trogonoides, Wlk. xxxi. 101 (1864) ; Kirbj', Cat. Het. p. 157. 



cJ . Black ; antennae white at tips ; paljii at base, back of head, 

 tegular shoulders, patagia, and coxic with white points ; abdomen 

 with the tufts of hair brown, ill-defiiicd metallic greenish lateral 



Fig. 229. — Ixylasia trogonoides, (^ . {. 



bands, the 2ud segment with lateral white spots and a sublateral 

 series of spots. Fore wing with white point at base ; diffused 

 streaks of metallic green scales on basal area, extending on costal 

 area to just beyond middle. Hind wing hyaline, with the veins and 

 a broad terminal band black, indented below vein 5 and above 

 tornus. 



Mab. Brazil, 1 cJ type. Ea'}^. 56 millim. 



Sect. II. Abdomen of male without lateral tufts of long hair from base. 



*948. Ixylasia scliausi. 



Eupyra sckausi, Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Het., ii. p. 334, pi. 70. f. 21 (1896). 



(5 . Black ; back of head, teguloe, patagia, shoulders, and meso- 

 and raetathorax with bluish-white points ; coxas white ; abdomen 

 with dorsal white point on 1st segment, subdorsal series of metallic 

 green patches, lateral white spots on 2rid and 3rd segments and 

 a sublateral series. Fore wing with two white points at base ; 



Fig. 230. — Ixylasia schausi, cf , \. 



some metallic green suffusion on medial area and towards tornus ; 

 a hyaline spot below middle of cell, a spot in upper end of cell, and 

 point at origin of vein 2 ; a series of elongate patches beyond the 



