COPAXARTA. MYDRODOXA. 



493 



reddish orange with ratlier broad terminal black band with curved 

 inner edge ; cilia brownish at base, whitish at tips. Underside of 

 fore wing fuscous with the reniform white, hind wing with the 

 costal area black. 



Ab. 1. aigerrima^ Fore wing with the basal area suffused with 

 black, the black on medial area extending to postraedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 ^5" type, Shovel Mts., 1 d", Arizona, Yuma 

 Co., 1 cJ . Exji. 20-24 millim. 



Genus MYDRODOXA. rp^.^^g 



yii/ih-odoxa, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) v. p. 340 ( 1880) sidende72^. 



Proboscis fully devolopecl ; palpi porrect, short, fringed witli hair below ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of female almost simple (broken 

 off short) ; thorax clothed with long rough hairs only, the prothorax without 

 distinct crest, th* metathorax with large spreading crest ; tibiie thickened, 

 moderately fringed with iiair ; abdoiiien clothed with rough hair but without 

 crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the terinen obliquely 

 curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from 

 above angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the ai-eole ; 6 from 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5 

 absent ; t'>, 7 stalked ; 8 anastouiosing with the cell near base only. 



4984. Mydrodoxa splendens. 



Mydrodoxa splcndens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) v. p. 341 (1880) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Lep. Het. p. 125. 



9 . Head and thorax black, the vertex of head and metathoracic 

 crest crimson ; legs suffused with metallic blue ; abdomen black 

 suffused with metallic bhie, the last five segments crimson except on 

 ventral surface, the base of 4th segment with black dorsal spot. 

 Fore wing deep metallic peacock blue ; patches of black hair at 

 base of cell and intier margin ; the area from near base to beyond 



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Fig. 236. — Mydrodoxa splendens, §• i- 



middle suffused with golden cupreous except at costa and inner 

 margin ; a broad erect deep blue-black medial band, its outer edge 

 slightly excurved from below costa to submediaii fold. Hind m ing 

 deep metallic blue, the basal half and inner area clothed with 

 black hair. Underside of botli wings deep metallic blue. 



Hah. MAnAGAscvu, Fianarantsoa (Coivan),! § type. E.i'p. -W> 

 millim. 



