PARASTATIA. — AGYKTA. 4C9 



stripes on mid and hind femora white ; thorax and abdomen suffused 

 with blue, the latter with doroal, lateral, and sublateral series or 



white spots, the anal tufts 

 crimson. Fore wing witli 

 whitish-blue streali below 

 base of median neivure ; a 

 large medial hyaline palcii 

 formed by wedge-shaped 

 spots in cell, above base of 

 vein 2, and below cell and 

 Fig. 'im.—rarastatia'parnassia, J. \. vein 2; a postmedial patch 



with curved edges between 

 veius 3 and 7. Hind wing hyaline, with the veins and margins 

 black ; a black patch at base of cell ; the terminal band broad, 

 slightly shot with blue, expanding towards apex, irregularly dentate 

 towards tornns, and emitting a streak along vein 1. Underside with 

 some white on median nervure of fore wing near base and on base 

 of costa of hind wing. 



Hah. Surinam, 1 c5' typef in Coll. Staudinger. Exjj. 40 millim. 



Genus AGYRTA. 



Type. 



Agyrta, Hiiba. Vorz. p. 177(1827) auxo. 



Corydalla, VVik. vii. 1(550 (1857) cry^ptoleuca. 



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

 bipectinate, witb moderate branches dilated at extremiiy and ending in a bristle ; 

 tibisB with the spurs moderate. Fore wing broad ; vein 3 from well before 

 angle of ceil ; 4, 5 separate at origin ; 6 from bel nv upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 

 stalked; 7 from long before 9 ; 11 from cell. Hind wmg witli the cell long; 

 vein 3 from near angle; 4, 5 separate at origin or from a point ; 7 from just 

 before upper angle. 



A. Fore wing with hyaline patch above base of vein 2. 



a. F'ore wing with oblique subapical hyaline band. 

 ft\ Hind wing with liyalino streak on inner area. 



«-. F'ore wing with the hyahne fascia in subniedian inter- 

 space arising near base dux. 



b'^. Fore wing with the hyaline fascia in submedian inter- 

 space arising near origin of vein 2 micilia. 



b^. Hind wing without hyaline streak on inner area. 



or. Vertex of head crimson chena. 



b'^. Neck only crimson Jlavitliicta. 



c-i. Fore wing with no hyaline fascia in submedian interspace; 



vertex of liead crimson auxo. 



b. Fore wing without subapical band monoplaga. 



B. Fore wing witiiout hyaline patch ahove base of vein 2. 

 a. Fore wmg without diffused white scales. 



a'. F'ore wing with the white patch beyond cell entire pandemia. 



b^ . F'ore wing with the white patcii beyond cell broken up 



into two spots porphyria. 



h. Fore wing with diffused white scales albifparsa. 



1038. Agyrta dux. 



Dioptis dux, Wlk. ii. 327 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 121. 



Agyrta cestiva, Ijutl. Cist. Ent. li. p. 113 (1870) ; Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 121. 



