4 70 SYNTOMID^. 



Isostola superba. Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. llo, pi. 12. f. 5 (1884); 



Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 191. 

 Agi/rta phylla, Druce, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 2S2. 



Black, shot with brilliant blue ; palpi with th^ 1st joint crimson ; 

 neck slightly tinged with crimson ; frons edged with white ; some 

 white behind the eyes ; thorax streaked with white ; coxae white ; 

 abdomen with dorsal and lateral white streaks, and the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing with hyaline streak in cell above middle 

 of median nervure ; a fascia, with short blue fascia below it, below 

 the cell and vein 2 to near termen, and a triangular patch above 

 vein 2 ; an oblique postmedial band from vein 7 to above 3 near 



Pig. 257. — Agyrta dux, (J . \. 



termen. Hind wing with hyaline fascia below and in lower part 

 of cell and between veins 2 and 5 to near termen, varying in width ; 

 a hyaline streak on inner area ; cilia white towards tornus. 



Ab. 1. superha. Hind wing without the hyaline streak in cell : 

 the fascia below the cell narrow. 



Hah. St. Lttcia, type "f juliylla in Coll. Druce ; Honduras, 1 o , 

 i^Tpe (estiva ', Guatemala (CAamjjion), 2 6 liy^Q sxiperha: Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. ; Venkzuela, 2 $ type. Exp., J 48, $ 56 millim. 



1039. Agyrta micilia. 



Bomh/x micilia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 228. G (1780) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 121. 



Black, shot with brilliant blue ; proboscis, 1st joint of palpi, and 

 neck crimson ; frons edged with white ; thorax slightly streaked 

 with white ; coxae white : abdomen with slight dorsal and lateral 

 white streaks, and the ventral surface white. Foro wing with 

 brilliant blue patch in and below base of cell, with slight white 

 streak above vein 1 ; a hyaline streak in lower end of cell ; a wedge- 

 shaped spot above vein 2 and streak below it ; an oblique hyaline 

 postmedial band from vein 7 to just below 4 near termen. Hind 

 wing with hyaline fascia in and below the cell and beyond it 

 between veins 2 and 5 to near termen ; a streak on basal part of 

 inner area. 



Hah. Beazil, Para {Austen). Exp. 42 millim, 



1040. Agyrta chena. (Plate XYI. fig. 19.) 



Agijrta chena, Druce, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 281. 

 Head black, the base of palpi, vertex, and cheeks crimson ; palpi 



