642 AGAEISTIDJ5. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, New Mexico; Mexico,! c? iy^ecrescens, 

 Oajaca, 1 $ , Durango (Beclcer), 2 c^ , Jalapa {Hoei/e), 1 $ , Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Kr^. 48 millim. 



188. Alypiodes radians. 



Eiisemm radians, Boisd. Eev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 105 (1874) ; Feld. Eeis. Nov 

 pi. 107. f. 9 ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ani., Het. ii. p. 327 ; Kirby, Cat. Het.- 

 p. 24. 



d". Bhie-'black; proboscis fulvous ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, 

 upper part of frons at sides, and vertex of head with yellowish- 

 white spots ; a yellowish rim behind eyes ; tcguliie, patagia, and 

 nietathorax with yellowish spots. Pore wing with yellowish streaks 

 from base -to middle below costa, on median nervure, in submedian 

 fold, and on vein 1 ; a metalhc-blue spot in middle of cell, and a 

 discoidal bar with some diffused yellowish before the former and 

 a quadrate spot between Ihcm ; an oblique band beyond the cell 

 between veins 7 and 3, emitting streaks on the veins towards termen 

 and with a streak below it on vein 2 ; cilia yellowish at apex. 

 Hind wing with the cilia yellowish white, the underside with a 

 postmedial series of streaks on veins 6 to 2. 



Hah. Mexico, Morelos {H. H. Smith), 1 6 , Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. 48 millim. 



189. Alypiodes valkeri. 



Pseudah/pm walkeri, Druce, A. M. N. H. (G) ii. p. 239 (1888) ; id. Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 32C., pi. 70. i'. 1 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 34. 

 l^seiidalt/pia stuartii, Scliaus, Ent. Am. v. p. 87 (1889) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 34. 



2 . Black, slightly shot with blue ; proboscis fulvous ; shoulders 

 with tufts of orange hair. Fore wing with slight streaks of 

 metallic-blue scales at base below costa and above vein 1 ; a spot in 

 end of cell and discoidal line ; streaks on veins 3, 2, 1 and in submedian 

 fold from middle to the very oblique yellowish-white band which 

 extends from below costa beyond middle to above tornus, where it 

 is recurved. 



Bab. Mexico, Acapulco (J. J. Walher), 6 $ type ; Guatemala, 

 Pacific slope {Eichardso7-k), 2 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 40-44 

 millim. 



Genus MASSAGA. „ 



Type 



Massaga, Wlk. ii. 3.58 (1854) mariiona. 



Proboscis fully cleveloperl ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with rough 

 liair, the 3rd short, somewhat porrect, long in female ; frons witli truncate 

 conical protnhience with raised rim at extremity; antenniu nearly simple, dis- 

 tinctly dilated toward extremity ; tibije and abdomen smoothly scaled, the latter 

 in male with protrusible lateral tufts of long yellow hair from base. Fore wing 

 with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle, the disco- 

 cellulars incurved above it; 6 from upper angle; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 



