CTENUCHA. 527 



1161. Ctemicha semistria. (Plate XVII. fig. 4.) 

 Dioptis semistria, Wlk. ii. 321 (185(5) ; Kii-by, Cat. Het. p. 180. 



2 . lilue-black ; 1st joint of palpi and part of 2ik1 joint, head 

 behind ejes, and throat orange. Fore wing with oblique white 

 band across end of cell terminating on vein 2. Hind wing with 

 small white patch below end of cell between veins 2 and 3 ; the 

 cilia white. Underside of fore wing with streak of diffused white 

 below the cell. 



Hab. Brazil, 1 2 , type. E.vp. 42mi]lira. 



11G2. Ctenucha editha. (Plate XVII. fig. 10.) 



CaraKsa editha, Wlk. vii. IGlil (185G). 



(5 . Black ; head, thorax, abdomen, and wings in interspaces to 

 beyond middle shot with brilliant blue ; base of palpi and pectus 

 scarlet ; abdomen with scarlet dorsal patch from 2nd to 5th seg- 

 ments, conjoined on sides at middle to the ventral scarlet area ; both 

 wings with the cilia white at tips ; underside of fore wing with 

 terminal wedge-shaped white patch below vein 2. 



Hah. Haiti, 1 J . Exp. 38 millim. Type f in ]\Ius. Oxon. 



1]63. Ctenucha vittigera. 



Compsoprium viftigerum, Blanch, in Gay's Chile, Zool. vii. p. 67 (1852) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 177. 

 Ctenucha nivosa, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. (i (18li9) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 177. 



Head orange ; palpi whitish and orange, 2nd joint behind and 

 3rd joint black ; frons whitish and blue ; antennae black ; thorax 

 olive-black mixed with white ; tegular and patagia edged with 

 orange and white ; legs striped with white : alodomen with slight 

 segmental white rings. Fore wing fuscous ; the veins and sub- 

 median interspace broadly striped with white, the costa and tips of 

 cilia white. Hind wing blue-black : cilia white. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stripes on veins very broad and 

 leaving little of the fuscous ground-colour. 



Ab. 2. nivosa. Hind wing with the median nervules and sub- 

 median interspace finely streaked with white. 



JIab. Chili (Mathew, J. J. Walker) ; Argentina (Berg), and 

 type nivosa. Exp. 46 millim. 



1164. Ctenucha divisa. (Plate XVII. fig. 25.) 



Compsoprium devimm, Wlk. vii. 1G44 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 17G. 

 Philoros marita, Sdiau?, J. N. Y. Ent.Soc. iv. p. i:j;j (1896). 



Head white; 2nd and 3rd joints of paljn and antennce black; 

 back of head and neck yellow ; thorax pale yellow-brown ; tegulae 



