POLTODES. — TRICHOPOLIA. 361 



*1661. Poliodes violascens. 



Xylina violascens, Mssn. Sliibel's Eeise, p. 146, pi. vii. f. 1 (1890). 



Head and thorax piirplishx gre}' ; abdomen wliitish, suffused with 

 brown towards extremity. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with 

 fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a black point on costa and a 

 patch below cell with short white streak on it ; antemedial line 

 represented by two points on costa and a mark on inner margin 

 with short white streak on it ; orbicular defined by brown at sides 

 and below : reniform hardly traceable ; postmedial line slightly 

 waved, bent outwards below costa, incurved to vein 4, where it is 

 angled outwards, then strongly incurved and with dark patch with 

 short white streak on it below the cell on its inner side ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of black spots with white 

 marks on them ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 fuscous, the lower part of cell and area below it white. 



Hah. Ecuador, Paramo de Alao, 12000'. Exp. 40 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; structural characters examined by 

 Prof. Karsch. 



*1662. Poliodes viola. (Plate XCIV. fig. 9.) 



Poliodes viola, Druce, ined. 



5 . Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with brown ; i)alpi 

 red- brown except at tips ; abdomen brown, the crests tipped with 

 grey, the base pale at sides, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 vinous red. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated with brown ; sub- 

 basal line indistinct, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, waved, oblique ; claviform rather small, 

 incompletely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, 

 almost confluent, defined by black, the former elongate elliptical, 

 the latter ill-defined beloAV and angled inwards on median nervure ; 

 postmedial line oblique from below costa to vein 6, then dentate, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 small wedge-shaped black marks, oblique from near ajjex to above 

 vein 6 and from below vein 6 to above vein 2 ; some black points 

 on termen. Hind wing white, the veins and marginal areas tinged 

 with brown ; cilia white at tips ; the underside with small dis- 

 coidal spot, traces of a postmedial line on costal area and some 

 poiuts on tennen. 



Hah. N. Peru, Huancabamba, 8000', type in Coll. Druce. 

 Exp. 50 millim. 



Genus TRICHOPOLIA. 



Type. 



Trichopolia, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 76 (1883) dentatella. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrecfc to beyond frons, fringed with long 

 hair ; frons smooth ; eyes rather small, reniform, very hairj, and overhung by 

 cilia ; antennae of male typically bipectinate with short branches at right angles 

 to shaft, serrate at base and extremity ; head and thorax clothed with long 

 hair and without crests ; tibi;e hairy ; abdomen without dorsal crests and with 

 lateral fringes of long hair. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex produced and 



