526 STNTOMIDJE. 



5 . Without the orange patch on hind wing and without any of 

 the white markings ; underside of hind wing with slight subcostal 

 orange streak. 



Ilah. Peru. Exp., S ^^, $ 32 millim. Type t in Coll. Schaus. 



1158. Ctemicha hraganza. 



Melanchroia hraganza, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 288; id. Am. Lep. pi. ii. f. 26. 



Black ; head and thorax mixed with brown ; 1st joint of palpi, 

 base of 2nd joint, neck at sides, and sometimes the back of head 

 orange ; coxae and femora striped with white ; abdomen tinged with 

 blue, the ventral surface with slight paired white lines ; anal tuft 

 sometimes orange. Fore wing Avith the veins pale fuscous ; an 

 oblique white baud beyond the cell between veins 7 and 4, or 

 extending to near termeu below vein 3 ; cilia white at apex. Hind 

 wing tinged with blue, the veins fuscous ; cilia white. 



Hah. Brazil, 4 S , Theresopolis, 1 J , Eio Janeiro, 1 (5 . Exp. 

 48 millim. 



1159. Ctemicha circe. 



Bohihyx circe, StoU, Pap. Esot. iii. pi. 263. D (1779) & pi. 274. E ; Druce, 



Biol. Centr.-Ain., Het. i. p. 83 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 179. 

 Evagra affinis, Boisd. Lep. Gnat. p. 88 (1870). 



Black-brown ; 1st joint of palpi and part of 2nd orange, whitish 

 in front : back of head and neck orange ; frons partly whitish ; 

 teguUic with a few orange hairs between them ; patagia and thorax 

 with fine pale lines ; coxse and stripes on legs white ; abdomen with 

 slight bluish tinge, the extremity orange, the ventral surface with 

 segmental bands and more or less whitish between them. Fore 

 wing with the veins pale fuscous ; an oblique white band beyond 

 the cell from vein 7 to near termen at vein 2, sometimes obsolescent 

 below vein 3 ; cilia white at tips towards tornus. Hind wing blue- 

 black, the cilia white. Underside sometimes with white .fasciae 

 below cell of fore wing and in cell of hind wing. 



Hah. Nicaragua ; Ecuador ; Venezuela, 3 S ; Brazil, 1 $ ; 

 Para, 1 J • Exp. 34-42 millim. 



*1160. Ctenucha palmeira. 



Melanchroia palmeira, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1 892, p. 288 ; id. Am. Lep. pi. ii. f. 24, 



5 . Head and thorax brownish black ; neck with some orange 

 scales ; base of palpi and front of pectus orange ; abdomen fuscous, 

 the anal tuft tipped with orange. Fore wing dull black, the veins 

 rather paler ; a wedge-shaped white band beyond the cell from 

 vein 7 to below 4. Hind wing blue-black ; an apical white patch ; 

 underside with short white streak on discoidal fold beyond the 

 cell. 



Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, Palmeira. Exp. 40 millim. Type f 

 in Coll, Schaus. 



