528 SYNTOMID^. 



and patagia edged Tvith white ; legs striped with white ; abdomen 

 black tinged with blue. Fore wing pale yellow-brown, the median 

 nervure and veins 1 to 7 streaked with white ; cilia white at tips ; 

 abdomen blue-black, the cilia white. 



Hah. Bkazil, Sao Paulo (Jones) ; Argentina (Berg). Exp. 34- 

 42 millim. Type f in Mus. Oxon. 



1165. Ctenncha venosa. 



Ctemtcha venosa, Wlk. ii. 284 (1854) ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 31 , 

 pi. i. f. 12; Druce, Biol. Centr.-A.m., Het. i. p. 82; Kh-by, Cat. Het. 

 p, 176. 



Ctenucha cressonana, Grote. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 64, pi. 8. f. 5 

 (1863) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 177. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black shot with blue ; palpi yellow 

 and red at base ; vertex of head and neck scarlet, sometimes orange ; 

 patagia edged with white or orange. Fore wing greyish or brownish 

 black, blue at base, with fine or rather broad stripes on vein 1, 

 median nervure, and veins 4, 5, 6, which may be orange-red, 

 yellow, or almost white ; costa white, yellow towards base. Hind 

 wing black shot with blue ; cilia of both wings white except at 

 middle. 



Hah. TJ. S. A., Texas, Grote and Zeller Colls. ; Mexico (Mon-ison, 

 Forrer, Godman, Brooks, Ehves, Smith, RicJiardson, Schumann) ; 

 (jVkT'EM.k'Lk (Rodriguez, Rogers); Costa 'R,\ck(Underivood); Panama 

 (Champion): God man- Sal vin Coll. ; Venezuela, ^.r^:*. 38 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Vertex of head black ; neck and base of palpi scarlet 

 or yellowish. — Ecuadoe (BucMetj), 4 cJ . 



*1166. Ctenuclia sanguinaria. 



Ctenucha sanguinaria, Stretch, Eep. Chief of Engineers, 1878, App. SS. 

 p. 1858, pi. 2. fig. 2 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 177. 



Head and thorax black ; 1st joint of palpi, some hairs of 2nd 

 joint, vertex of head, stripes on shoulders, and neck scarlet; patagia 

 blue, with black and a tew scarlet hairs ; metathorax blue ; pale 

 points at end of tibite and femora ; abdomen deep blue. Fore wing 

 black with some blue at base ; the costa, median nervure, veins 4, 3, 1 

 to near termen scarlet. Hind wing deep blue ; cilia of both wings 

 white. Underside shot with blue ; fore wing with pale patch below 

 base of median nervure. 



Hab. U. S. A., Western States. Eap. 52 millim, 



1167. Ctenucha ruficeps. 



Ctemicha ruficeps, Wlk. ii. 284 (1854) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i, 

 p. 82, pi. 9. f. 8 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 178. 



(S . Black-brown ; frons, thorax, and abdomen suffused with 

 metallic green; vertex of head and neck crimson; fore coxse and 



