1(j8 auctiad^. 



I 



(7». Abdomen uniform orange. 



(i? Fore wing orange with brown mottling and 



lines sehrus. 



}?. Fore wing brown with darker mottling ■pro}>a. 



IK Abdomen with large dorsal blackish patch. 



a*. Abdomen with the extremity black atrafa. 



b\ Abdomen with the extremity orange, 

 a^. Abdomen with black bands. 



a\ Abdomen with the black patch extending to 



near extremity chimcBra. 



Z/*. Abdomen with the black patch confiaed to 



basal segment itmher. 



b^. Abdomen with lateral series of black spots. 



a*. Vertex of head white immanis. 



6*. Vertex of head dark. 



a\ Abdomen with dorsal black spots on 



terminal segments disciplaga. 



b\ Abdomen without dorsal spots, the patch 



at base small atriceps. 



c. Abdomen fuscous brown. 



«!. Fore wing with pale bands melanoplaga. 



h\ Fore wing uniform dark brown hicolor. 



1379. Elysius siiperlDa. 



Phcpqopfera mperha, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 95, pi. 10. f. 2 

 (1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 214. 



Prown-pink ; palpi, froiis, and antennse black ; tcgula3 and 

 patagia witli black points ; metathorax and fore coxae with black 

 jspots, the femora pink above, tibiae and tarsi blackish ; abdomen 

 pink with dorsal black bands, the hair at base brown-pink, two 

 lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface brown. Pore wing 

 brown-pink, with black patch at base of costa ; antemedial, medial, 

 and postmedial brown bands with rather sinuous edges ; a sub- 

 terminal band, sending a broad fork to termen from above vein 4 

 and often interrupted below that point ; an apical patch narrowing 

 to the fork from subterminal band. Hind wing pale brownish 

 semihyaline, more thickly scaled towards margins. 



JJab. Mexico, Jalapa {TrvjUh),2 $ ; Costa Bica (Z7iK?mi'oorf), 

 1 c? , 2 $ ; Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), 1 S type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 86 millira. 



1380. Elysius francki. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 10.) 

 Mazmras francki, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 141 (1896). 



6 . Head and tegulae purjJish crimson ; 3rd joint of palpi, 

 antenna:^, and spots on tegulte black ; thorax purple-brown mixed 

 with crimson ; tibiae and tarsi black ; abdomen orange, clothed with 

 crimson hair at base ; large dorsal and lateral series of black spots, 

 the ventral surface brown. Fore wing purple-brown with slight 

 pale striae ; some crimson at base of inner area. Hind wing 

 semihyaline, sparsely clothed with crimson scales, the inner area 

 thickly clothed with crimson hair ; cilia fuscous at apex. 



Jiah. Eeazjl, Castro Parana, 1 c^ , Sao Paulo (Jones), type f d 

 in Coll. Schaus. JS'.rp. 64 millim. 



