472 SYNTOMID^. 



frons, coxce, and stripes on legs white. Fore wing blue-black, tbe 

 inner area broadly brilliant blue ; a large hyaline patch formed by 

 triangular patches in end of cell and above vein 2, and an oblique 

 streak below vein 2 extending nearly to termen. Hind wing 

 brilliant blue. 



Hah. Ecuador, Balsapamba. Exp. 36 millim. Type t in Coll. 

 Druce. 



*1044. Agyrta pandemia. (Plate XYI. fig 26.) 



Agyrta pandemia, Druee, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 282. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, suffused with blue ; palpi 

 in front, sides of frons, and stripes on legs white ; abdomen with 

 the ventral surface white. Fore wing black, with brilliant metallic 

 blue streaks on median nerviire and inner margin to beyond middle ; 

 an oblique semihyaline white band from upper angle of cell to 

 vein 2. Hind wing suffused with brilliant blue ; a hyaline streak 

 in lower part of cell, and a fascia below the cell from base to beyond 

 lower angle ; veins 4, 5 from a point. 



Bab. Amazons, Para, type t in Coll. Druee. Kvp. 32 millim. 



*1045. Agyrta porphyria. 



Bovihyx porphyria, Stoll, Pcap. Esot. iv. pi. 397. E (1782); Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 163. 

 Corydalla cryptoleuca, Wlk. vii. 1650 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 904. 



Black, suffused with blue ; palpi in front and coxae white ; head 

 and thorax with patches of metallic blue ; abdomen with dorsal 

 and lateral metallic blue lines, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wing with metallic blue fascia in submedian interspace extending 

 to near termen, interrupted at middle or reduced to basal portion ; 

 a semitriangular hyaline white patch beyond discocellulars, and two 

 patches between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing usually with fine 

 metallic blue streaks on median nervure and bases of veins 2, 3, 4, 

 the latter sometimes with traces of white patches between them, 

 which are more prominent on underside ; cilia of both wings white 

 at apex. 



Hah. Amazons, Para, Exp. 48 millim. Type t cryptoleuca in 

 Mus. Oxon. 



Subsp. 1. Fore wing with blue streak below cell extending to 

 near tornus ; hind wing with slight hyaline streak below cell. — 

 Reyes (Stuart), Coll. Eothschild. 



1046. Argyrta alhisparsa, n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 20.) 



J . Head and thorax black, irrorated with white ; neck orange ; 

 abdomen suffused with brilliant blue, slight dorsal and broad ventral 

 white stripes. Fore wing black with diffused white scales, some of 

 which form very obscure antemedial, medial, and subterminal white 

 lines, the first strongly excurved on median nervure, the 2nd 



