2^)4 AllCTIAU.E. 



(> from upper anglo : 7, S, 0, 10 stnlkod, 10 from hevonrl 7:11 free. Hind 

 wiiit; with vein 2 from beyond middle of i-ell ; 3 from angle; 4, 5 shortly 

 eUilked ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Hind wing crimson coccinea. 



B. Hind wing bine-black teJiehrosa. 



*53;i. Nyctosia coccinea. (Plate XXV. fig. n.) 



Kt/cfosia coccinea. Seliaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 217 (1899). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black with slij^ht bluish gloss. 

 Fore wing dull brownish black. Hind wing crimson, with black 

 fascia on costal area and the cilia black. 



JJab. Mkxico, 1 2 > typet in Coll, Schaus. Ex^i. 38 millim. 



534. Nyctosia tenebrosa. 



ApJsiosia ienchrom, Wlk. xxxv. 1881 (1866); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Het. i. p. 121 ; Kirby. Cat. Het. p. 286. 

 Ctemicha proxima, H. Edw. Pap. iv. p. 14 (1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 178. 



Head and thorax orange-red ; palpi, antenn?e, a patch between 

 their bases, teguhr, patagia, and legs blue-black ; abdomen blue- 

 black ; the end of anal tuft orange in male. Fore wing Idack shot 

 with bronze-green. Hind wing black shot with dull blue. 



Fig. 169. — Ni/ctosia tenebrosa, (^ . \. 



ITal,. :Nri-xTC0, 1 d , 1 2 type, Jalapa {Hoege, TniJiUo), 2 J , 1 $ , 

 (j!odman-!Salviu Coll. ; Gcatumala. Exp. 48-52 millim. 



Genus SYNTOMIMORPHA, nov. 



Type, S. c(eritlcscens. 



Proboscis fully developed; prilpi upturned, smootlily scaled, the 2nd joint 

 reaching nearly to vertex of head, tlie 8rd well developed ; frons snjoothly 

 scaled ; antennic of male ciliated ; tibijc with the spurs short ; abdomen 

 ext<»nding well beyond hind wing. Fore wing long and narrow, the cosla 

 arched towards apex, termen obliquely rounded ; vein 3 from well before 

 angle of cell ; 5 I'roni above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form a long areole, 7 from areole : 11 free; retinaculum of 

 male formed by a tuft of hair from submedian fold. Hind wing of male with 

 the tornus | roduced to n lobe, tlie inner margin folded over below, covering a 

 fringe of h ng white hair ; vein 3 from before angle; 4, 5 from angle; 6,7 

 from upper angle; 8 from middle of cell. 



