102 



Hah. SuRiNAji ; 



AECTIAD^. 



EcTTADOR {BucUey); Boiitia, R. Songo {Gar- 

 34 millim. 



Genus TRICYPHA. 



Type. 



Tricypha, Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvit. p. 654 



(1877) fuTcafa. 



Mmnoleneura, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 56 furcata. 



Romanoffia, Hejl. C.K. Soc. Ent. Beige, sxviii. p. xciv (1884) ... imperials. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head, the 3rd moderate ; antennse of male with moderate branches, of female 

 with short branches ; tibiae with the spurs moderate ; abdomen dorsally clothed 

 with rough hair at base. Fore wing of female with vein 3 from before angle 

 of cell ; 4, 5 shortly stalked; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 

 11 free; male with a large semicircular patch of thinly-scaled membrane in 

 and beyond the cell, the neuration greatly distorted ; veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; o from above angle, anastomosing just before termen with 6 which is 

 strongly downcurved to meet it ; 7 from 6 ; 8, 9 stalked from 6 ; 10 from 

 angle of cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 shortly 

 stalked ; 6, 7 coincident; 8 from towards end of cell. 



A. Abdomen orange below imperialis. 



B. Abdomen grey -brown below fu'ivata. 



1369. Tricypha imperialis. 



Bomavoffia imperialis, Heyl. C.R. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxviii. p. xcv (1884) ; 



id. Rom. Mem. ii, p. 173. pi. 9. f. 1 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 877. 

 McenoUneura anomala, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 136, & ii. p. 402, 



uec Butl. 



S . Pale grey-brown ; basal joint of palpi, back of head, throat, 

 pectus, and coxae orange ; abdomen orange, the dorsal surface grey- 

 brown, reduced to spots on terminal segments ending with the sub- 

 terminal one, lateral and ventral series of dark points. Fore wing 



Fig. 77. — Tricypha imperialis, (^ . \. 



with obscure darker brown antemedial, medial, postmedial, and 

 subterminal bands from the thinly-scaled area to inner margin. 

 $ . Fore wing with the bands extending to subscostal nervure. 

 Rah. Mexico, Coatepec {Brools), 1 d"; Panama, Chiriqui, 1 cf , 

 Bugaba {Champion^, 1 $ , Godman-f^alvin Coll.; Amazons, San- 

 tarem, Rio Negro, Thomar. Exp., S 38, $ 44 millim. 



