CTENtrCHA. 525 



1155. Ctenucha togata. 



Acreaqris togata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Ilet. i. p. 7^, pi. (). f. 8 (1884) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 1(53. 

 Lycomorpha auc/usta, H. Edw. Ent. Am. iii. p. 91 (1887) ; Druce, Biol. 



Ceutr.-Ain., IJet. ii. p. 332, pi. 70. f. 17. 



Black shot with blue. Fore wing with deep crimson-red patch 

 occupying the whole wing except the margins, the black broad at 

 apex and indenting the crimson patch ; cilia with the tip.s u.sually 

 white, often completely white at apex. Hind wing with the cilia 

 usually white at apex ; underside with the basal halt' of costal area 

 crimson. 



Hub. Mexico, Guerrero {H. II. iSinith); Guatejul.v {Champion), 

 3 6 , type; Costa Rica (Rogers), 2 5 ; Panama (Champion), 1 (S : 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Eap. 34-38 millim. 



1156. Ctenucha cyaniris, n.sp. (Plate XVII. fig. 5.) 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen brilliant metallic blue ; palpi 

 and antenna) black ; frons and basal joint of antennse in front 

 white ; legs striped with white ; abdomen with the ventral surface 

 white to near extremity. Fore wing black, with broad metallic 

 blue fascia below basal part of costa and another on inner area to 

 middle ; an obliciue orange medial band from subcostal nervure to 

 above vein 1. Hind wing metallic blue, with an orange patch on 

 costa beyond middle ; the terminal area black, broad at costa, 

 narrowing to a point at tornus. Underside with bluish white 

 replacing the metallic blue ; fore wing with some metallic blue in 

 cell and on disk. 



$ . Frons with blue spot ; coxa3 with hardly any white ; abdomen 

 banded blue and white below : fore wing with complete oblique 

 orange band ; hind wing with the triangular patch large ; underside 

 with hardly a trace of white. 



Hah. Ecuador, Topo (Stewart), 1 d" , type. Eap. 36 millim. 



*1157. Ctenucha aymara. 



Gangamcla aymara, Scbaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 285 ; id. Am. Lep. pi. ii. f. 9. 



(S . Black ; palpi at base, frons, basal joint of antenna? in front, 

 guise, and pectus white ; legs striped white and black ; metathorax 

 and abdomen shot with blue, the latter with dorsal fascia of orange 

 scales, the ventral surface white. Fore wing with the base and 

 inner area blue ; the medial half of wing occupied by an orange 

 patch, which does not reach costa or inner margin but nearly 

 reaches tornus. Hind wing with the basal area shot with blue ; "a 

 diffused orange patch before apex extending from costa to vein Ik 

 Underside with the basal and inner areas of fore wing white, and 

 the whole hind wing except a black streak in end of cell, an orange 

 fascia on costa, and apical black band. 



