462 SYNTOMID^. 



Sect. I. (Euagra). Fore wing with veins 4, 5 approximated for some distance, 

 3 from angle of cell. ' 



1021. Euagra ccelestina. 



Bomhyx ccelestina, StoU, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 345. G (1782) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 179. 



Dioptis interclusa, Wlk. ii. 328 (1854). 



(S . Black shot with blue ; 1st joint of palpi, back of head, and 



neck crimson ; frons and 

 coxoe white ; abdomen bril- 

 liant blue, with dorsal 

 whitish line, the ventral 

 surface bluish white. Fore 

 wing with brilliant blue 

 fascia above and below vein 1 

 extending to middle ; hya- 

 Yig. 'iA^.— Euagra mlestina, S. \. line patches above veins 2 



and 3, the former extending 

 to near termen. Hind wing shot with brilliant blue ; a hyaline 

 fascia below the cell and vein 3 extending to near termen. 



Hah. Amazons, Para (Bates), 2 c5' , type interclusa. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



Sect. II. {Callayra). Fore wing with veins 4, 5 not approximated, 3 from more 

 or less before angle of cell ; the cell more or less narrowed by 

 approximation of median to subcostal nerviire. 



A. Fore wing with a single hyaline patch above vein 2. 



a. Fore wing with vein 2 from before middle of cell. 



a^. Head crimson cerymica. 



h^. Head black and blue. 



«^. Head, thorax, and abdomen without white markings 



above angelica. 



W-. Head, thorax, and abdomen with white markings 



above chica. 



b. Fore wing with vein 2 from after middle of cell. 



a\ Base of palpi, neck, and vertex of head crimson hcgmanthus, 



b^. Base of palpi and neck orange, vertex of head black ... azurea. 



c^. Head black and blue ccsrulea. 



B. Fore wing with hyaline streaks in and below cell. 



a. Vertex of head crimson ; fore wing with oblique hyaline 



bar beyond the cell between veins 7 and 4 splendida. 



b. Vertex of head mostly black ; fore wing without oblique 



bar beyond cell, but patches above veins 3 and 4. 

 a^. Hind wing without hyaline streak in cell ; coxae and 



ventral surface of abdomen white intercisa. 



b^. Hind wing with hyaline streak in cell ; coxaj and 



ventral surface of abdomen dark fenestra. 



C. Fore wing with oblique hyaline band beyond the cell latera. 



*1022. Euagra cerymica. (Plate XV. fig. 7.) 



Euagra cerymica, Druce, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 284. 



2 . Head crimson ; antennae and 3rd joint of palpi black ; thorax 

 and abdomen black, sufi'used above with blue ; wings black shot 

 with blue. Fore wing with brilliant blue subcostal fascia to beyond 

 middle and broader fascia above vein 1 ; a large triangular hyaline 



