484 SYNTOMID^. 



*1069. Heliura t]iysl)e. 



Acridopsis tliyshe, Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 043, pi. 8, 

 f. 14; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 165. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown ; vertex of head 

 and tips of patagia white ; abdomen with crimson dorsal patches on 

 last three segments with black spots on them. Fore wing white ; 

 three antemedial black spots ; two medial spots below costa and two 

 above inner margin ; a bar-shaped discoidal spot with a streak on 

 costa above it and two spots beyond it ; three spots in base of inter- 

 spaces between veins 2 and 5, with two spots below them above inner 

 margin ; a band from costa before apex to vein 5 and spot below 

 vein 5 ; a patch on termen from apex to vein 5 ; two large spots 

 between veins 3 and 5, and two small spots towards tornus. Hind 

 wing with the basal half white, the veins and terminal half blackish. 



Hah. Surinam. Type t in Coll Staudinger, Exp. 36 millim. 



1070. Heliura pierus. 



Sphmx pierus, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pb 367. E (1781) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 200. 

 Acridopsis lucis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 45; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 165. 



$ , Head and thorax olive-grey spotted with fuscous ; back of 

 head with two crimson spots ; coxae crimson ; abdomen fuscous 

 black, with traces of crimson lines between some of the segments. 

 Fore wing greyish, suffused with olive-yellow towards base ; some 

 black streaks at base, the one above inner margin curved and reach- 

 ing middle of wing ; a round spot in cell, with streak on costa above 

 it ; a bar across end of cell and three irregular spots between it and 

 inner margin ; a series of spots just beyond the ccD, the two between 

 veins 3 and 5 elongate ; a subterminal maculate band from costa to 

 vein 5 ; a terminal series of spots. Hind wing fuscous black, with 

 a hyaline patch in and below the cell. 



Hah. Amazons, R. Jutahi {Trail), 1 $ , type lucis. Exp. 34 

 millim. 



1071. Heliura sanguipalpia, n. sp. 



c{ . Head and thorax black ; 

 palpi and a patch between an- 

 tenna; crimson ; frons white 

 below; meso- and metathorax 

 with paired crimson points; coxae 

 white; abdomen black, the anal 

 tufts crimson below, the ventral 

 surface white; wings hj-aline, 

 Fig. 2m.— Helinra sanguipalpia, c?. f the veins and margins narrowly 



black; the terminal band ex- 

 panding widely towards apex of each wing. 



Hah. Beazil, Blumenau, 1 c5' type. Exj). 26 millim. 



