AGOK^A. — BITURTX. ITo 



Sect. II, Antennje of male bipectinate with short brandies, of fcmalp minutely 



serrate and fascieulate. 



1537. Agorsea pellucida. 



Bomh/x pellucida, Sepp, Surin. Yliiul. ii. p. 175, pi. Tti (1848) ; Druce, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Ret. ii. p. 410; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 211. 



Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; palpi at sides and back of 

 bead wnth black spots; patagia and thorax with black stripes; 

 liectus white, with orange and black lateral stripes ; legs whitish, 



with brown and black 

 stripes ; fore coxffi orange 

 at sides ; abdomen orange, 

 the 1st segment grey- 

 brown, a dorsal and two 

 lateral series of black spots, 

 the veiitral surface brown- 

 Fig. 97.— ^^or<26f^e//««cZ«, cJ. }. ish white. Fore wing 



scmihyaline brownish grey, 

 the interspaces shghtly streaked with brown ; the veins streaked 

 with black ; a black spot at lower angle of cell. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline brownish white. 



Hah. Mexico, Yucatan (Godman), 1 5. Godman-Salvin Coll.; 

 St. Vln-cent {H. U. Smith), 2 J , 1 $ ; Trinidad {Hart), 1 S ; 

 Surinam; Urazil, Amazons, Prainha (Trail), 1 ?, Sao Paulo 

 (Jones), 2 $ . Exp. 24-40 rail lira. 



Genus BITURYX. 



Type 

 .Ci/wr^x, Wlk. iii. 717 (1855) diversipes. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond the frons ; antennae 

 of male bipectinate with moderate branches, of female with short branches ; 

 tibia' with the spurs short; abdomen smoothly scaled, with lateral tubercles at 

 base. Fore wing rather narrow ; vein o from near angle of cell ; 5 from above 

 angle; ft from below upper angle; 7,8,9, 10 stalked ; 11 free. Hind wing 

 with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 7 from or 

 from just before upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Abdomen of female with the fenninil segment and vcntrally tlie last 

 four segments greatly dilated with tufts of woolly hair. 



A. Hind wing white itifarta. 



ii. Hind wing brownish, with dark streaks on the veins reiiosata. 



1538. Eituryx intacta. (I'latc XLI. fig. 4.) 

 iSituryx intttdus, Wlk. iii. 719 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. j). 204. 



$ . White ; head and leguhc pale yellow ; palpi at tips und an- 

 tcniiaj brownish ; legs brown above, fore coxoe yellow ; abdomen 

 orange, with dorsal and lateral series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing with brown streaks on the veins. Hind 

 wing scmihyaline. 



Jlab. Venezuela, 1 5 type. E.vp. 34 millira. 



