ACLTTIA. PEOCALTPTA. 459 



above; the 1st segment, the tufts of hair on basal segments, a series 

 of dorsal spots, and anal tuft black ; a ventral ■white fascia except 

 on terminal segment. Hind wiug -Rath slight bluish gloss; a hyaline 

 streak in and below cell and between bases of veins 2 and 5. 



Hah. Sttrinam:, 1 (S type f in Coll. Staudiuger. Exp. 36 millim. 



1016. Aclytia signatura. (Plate XV. fig. 16.) 



Percote signatura, Wlk. ii. 493 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 202. 



2 . Dull brown ; palpi at base orange ; back of head and tegulse 

 with orange spots ; coxas and abdomen orange, hind wing semi- 

 hyaline, the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous. 

 Hah. " W. Indies," 1 2 type. Exp. 8-4 millira. 



Genus PROCALYPTA. 



Type. 

 Frocalypta Bull. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 411 (187()) ... snbcyanea 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head ; antennae 

 bipectinate, with moderate branches dilated at extremity; thorax and base of 

 abdomen clothed with woolly hair ; tibite with the spurs moderate. Fore wing 

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

 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell or 10 shortly stalked with 7, 8, 9. Hind wing 

 with the cell three fourths of wing ; vein 2 from two-thirds of cell ; 3, 4 

 from angle ; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; the costa angled at 

 middle. 



1017. Procalypta subcyanea. 



Euchromia subcyanea. Wlk. i. 230 (1854) ; Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 40, pi. 8. 

 f. 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 157. 



Elack ; neck at sides, shoulders, patagia, metathorax, fore coxse^ 

 and mid and hind femora with white spots : abdomen shot with 

 brilliant blue, the last two segments above and last four below 

 crimson ; sublateral white spots on 2nd and 3rd segments. Pore 

 wing with quadrate hyaline spots below middle and in end of cell ; 



Fig. 246. —Frocali/pta subcyanea, S • V- 



two spots beyond the cell above and below vein 6. Hind wing shot 

 with blue, and with brilliant mftallic blue on costa and inner 

 margin ; hyaline spots below middle and in and beyond end of cell. 

 Underside of fore wing shot with brilliant metallic blue on basal 



