106 



ARCTIAD^. 



Skct. I. (Si/cJ/esio). Antennae of male with long branches ; hind wing with 

 vein 8 absent. 



1376. Elysius dryas. 



Bomhyx dryas, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 70. C (1775) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 206. 

 Halesidota hasipennis, Wlk. vii. 1707 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 212. 

 Sychcsia fimbria, Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 654, pi. ix. 



f. 22 (1877); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ara., Het. i. p. 94 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 206. 

 Fhcsgoptera szihtilis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1878, p. 51. 



Dark brown ; back of head with two orange points ; pectus and 

 00X88 with orange patches ; abdomen orange above, with four sub- 

 dorsal black spots on terminal segments, the terminal segment and 

 ventral surface dark brown. Fore wing irrorated with yellowish- 

 white scales, more prominent on nervures ; a whitish spot on angle 

 of discocellulars. Hind wing pale orange, deeper on inner area ; 

 the apical area broadly brown, tapering to tornus. 



Fig. 79. — Elysius dryas, c? . 



Hah. "W. Indies ; Guatemala {Cliampion., Rogers) ; Costa Eica 



(CT-HC^erzyoofZ), Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Ectjadoe ; Surinam; Amazons, 



Rio Sapo {Trail) ^ type subtilis, Para (Bates), type hasipennis in 



Mus. Oxon. ; Bolivia, Songo, Suapi. E,ip. 44-5-1 miUim. Type t 



fimbria in Coll. Staudinger. 



Subsp. 1 . The yellow on neck, coxae, base of abdomen, and hind 

 wing replaced by pale crimson. 



Huh. Brazil, Eio Grande do Sul {Mahilde), 1 $ . 



Sect. II. Antennae of male with shorter branches ; hind wing with vein 8 

 present as a spur or reaching costa. 



A. {Onyfhes). Hind wing of male with the inner area dilated, 

 the tornus somewhat lobed. 



a. Fore wing with the costa pale palUdicosla. 



b. Fore wing uniform blackish carbunaria. 



