482 SYNTOMID^. 



wing semihyaline whitish, the veins and terminal area fuscous 

 suffused with blue, the latter narrowing between veins 2 and 5. 



Hah. PANA3IA, Colon {Bouchard). Exp. 42 millim. Type f in 

 Coll. Druce. 



1065. Neacerea testacea. (Plate XVI. fig. 6.) 



Heliura testacea, Druce, Biol. Cent i-.- Am., Het. i. p. 74 (1884) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 164. 



$ , Greyish brown ; basal joint of palpi and vertex of head olive- 

 yellow ; fore coxse orange ; abdomen with the ventral surface 

 orange-yellow except at extremity. Fore wing with very slight 

 traces of a medial hyaline patch in and below cell and of au oblique 

 band from below costa beyond middle to near middle of termen, 

 both much more distinct on underside. Hind wing hyaline, the 

 veins and the terminal area very broadly suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. Guatemala (C/irt«ijj?o)i), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Panama, 

 Chiriqui. Exp. 40-42 millim. 



Genus HELIURA. 



Type. 



Heliura, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. sii. p. 417 (1870) rhodophila. 



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

 antennae bipectinate, with rather shoi't branches dilated at extremity ; tibice 

 with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 

 4, 5 from angle or shortly stalked ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 

 stalked, 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell long; vein 2 from well before 

 angle ; 3, 4 stalked, 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. Male with the tornus produced into a long acute' lobe containing a 

 tuft of long hair. 



A. Abdomen crimson. 



a. Legs spotted with pink ; fore wing with fuscous points 



on the postmedial semihyaline spots tetragramma. 



b. Legs without pink spots ; fore wing without dark 



points on the postmedial semihyaline spots rhodophila. 



B. Abdomen fuscous, with lateral blue patches hecale. 



1066. Heliura tetragramma.. (Plate XYI. fig. 9.) 



Euchromia tetragramma, Wlk. i. 268 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 164. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; back of head, tegulag, 

 patagia, and metathorax with rufous points ; coxae and base of 

 femora pink ; legs spotted with pink ; abdomen crimson, with the 

 1st segment blackish ; lateral ochreous patches on basal segments ; 

 the terminal segment black ; sublateral black fascite. Fore wing 

 semihyaline, with fuscous-brown markings occupying most of wing ; 

 the veins streaked with dark red ; the inner area fuscous brown, 

 crossed by the obscure pale antemedial and medial dentate lines ; 

 some fuscous below costa ; a round spot in middle of cell ; a broad 

 band with waved edges from costa beyond middle to tornus, expand- 

 ing below vein 5, and with dark points on the hyaline spots beyond 



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