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Genus ARDONEA. ^^. ^^ 



Archnrn, Wlk. ii. 4'<2 (I8.i4) .• m'mo. 



DoracU, Boisd. Lep. GuiU. p. 9li (1870) morio. 



Pruboscis fully (Ipvelopcci ; palpi upturned, not rcachino; vertex of head, and 

 clolhod with rouj;h scales; antenna- of male bipeelinate with moderate branches, 

 of female with cilia and bristles, the shaft slightly dilated before middle ; 

 tiblffi with the spurs niuderale. Fore wing with vein 2 from towards angle of 

 cell and curved at ba9i«, 'A from before angle; 4, o from angle ; 6 from u))per 

 angle: 7, 8, *.» stalked ; 10 free; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing with 

 vein 2 from well beyond middle of cell ; 3,4 from angle ; 5 absent; G, 7 shortly 

 stulked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing sreen morio. 



B. Fore wing black-brown, with whitish streaks in the interspaces, tenehrosa. 



465. Ardonea morio. 



Arcfonm morio, Wlk. ii. 482 (1854) ; Druce, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Het. i. p. 130 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 287. 

 Doraeis coracina, Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 96 (1870). 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing deep blue-green ; hind 

 ■wiug deep blue. 



Fig. 1 45. — Ardonea morio, c? . | 



Hab. Mexico, Grote Coll., Cordova (Ricmeli), Coatepec (Brools), 

 Aioyac (Schi(wan\ Orizaba {Elwts, Godman),GneTrero {H.U. Smith), 

 Ja.\hco (ScJiuman), 'S[\»auUn. (Trujillo), Dm-Rngo (Foi'rer); Guate- 

 mala (Chdmpioii) ; Honduras (BUmcaneau), Costa Rica (^Underwood, 

 Ifo(ferii) ; Panama (Champion), Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Colombia 

 Bogota (Fer^wra); Venezuela, type. £',rp., c? 34, $ 40 raillim. 



4G0. ? Ardonea tenebrosa. (Plate XXIV. fig. 0.) 



Caraks tenehrosa, ^^^k. xxxi. 30fi (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 207. 



$. (Head wanting); black-brown; patagia with grey patches. 

 Fore wing with prominent medial whitish streaks above and below 

 subniodian fold and on inner margin ; two indistinct brownisli 

 streaks in end of cell ; whiti.sh streaks intersected by fine streaks 

 of the ground-colour in the interspaces towards termen, reaching 

 the termon excejit towards apex and above and below vein 4. 

 Hah. Bkazil, Kio Janeiro, 1 $ type. Ex^i. 34 millira. 



