PHASIS. — LOXGIOELLA. 



661 



*223. Phasis mardava. (Plate LLV. fig. 10.) 

 Phasis mardava, Druce, A. M. N. II. (0) xx. p. 300 (IbDT). 



2 . lilack-lirown. Fore wiiii; with slightly irregularly pale 

 yellow band Iroin just below inidcilc of costa to below vein 2 above 

 tornus, incurved below costa. 



Hab. Amazons, liio Napo {Whikhj), typef $ in Coll. Druce. 

 Exp. A'6 millim. 



Genus LONGICELLA. 



Type. 



Loncjkclla, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. ol (1896) mollis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uptiinipcl, the 2nd joint moderately fi-ingcd 

 with Imir in front, the 3rd long, naked, jjorrect ; irons witli rounded prominence ; 

 antennje nearly simple, slightly dilated towards extremity ; tibiiu and abdomen 

 nearly smoothly scaled ; male with the claspera large, lateral tufts of long hair 

 from 2nd segment. Fore wing witli vein o from well before angle of cell ; .5 

 from above angle; G from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the arcole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell long; vein 3 from well 

 before angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoeellulars ,('), 7 from upper angle. 



A. Wings blue with black markings mollis. 



B. Wings black with white spots luctifcra. 



224. Longicella mollis. 



Eitsemia mollis, Wlk. vii. 1774 (1856) ; Pag. Jahrb. Nass. Ver. xxxviii. 

 p. 8, pi. 2. f. 1 (1885) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 31. 



Head and thorax black ; 1st joint of palpi, the 2nd joint in front, 

 a ring round frons, a sjwt on vertex, and a rim behind eyes yello'v\ish 

 white ; tegulte and patagia edged with yellowish-white hair ; pectus 

 with some white hair ; coxse orange ; legs striped with orange : 

 abdomen black, the first three or four segments dorsally banded 

 with bluish white, and the last four or five with orange, the 



Fig. 294. — Longicella mollis, cJ. \- 



ventral surface orange. Foro wing silvery-greenish, or purplish 

 blue irrorated with black ; an oblique irregularly waved black 

 line, expanding into patches below the cell and vein 1 ; a large 

 round black spot in middle of cell with silvery centre, conjoined or 

 nearly conjoined to a similar spot below base of vein 1, often 

 with silvery centre ; a large black spot in and beyond end of cell 



