AGYRTA. 109 



with some blue and red scales on the upper surface ; segments 

 four and five red, with a black crescent in front; segment 

 seven blue ; the terminal segment scaled with metallic green. 



GENUS AGYRTA. 



Agyrta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett p. 177 (1822 ?). 

 Dioptis, Group 8, Agyrta, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 

 ii. p. 326 (1854.) 



We have here an American genus, including only a few species, 

 which have a great resemblance to the Family Dioptidcz, in 

 which they were actually included by Walker. The body is 

 more slender, and the wings are much broader and more oval 

 than in Euchromia. 



AGYRTA MICILIA. 

 (Plate LXXXI. Fig. 4.) 



JBombyx micilia^ Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 228, fig. 0(1780 ?). 

 Limacodes micilia, Duncan, in Jardine's Naturalist's Library, 



Exot. Moths, p. 179, pi. 22, fig. i (1841). 

 Dioptis micilia, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 329, 



no. 16 (1854). 



This species, which is found in Surinam, measures nearly 

 two inches across the wings, which are suffused with bright 

 blue towards the base of the fore-wings, and on the borders 

 of the hind-wings. The fore-wings have a short whitish hyaline 

 basal streak, a broad oblique streak descending over the upper 

 part of the cell towards the hinder angle, and a narrower white 

 sub-apical streak. The hind-wings have a broad hyaline- 

 white stripe running through the middle nearly to the hind 

 margin. On the sub-hyaline parts of the wings the nervures 

 are black. The body is blue, with a white longitudinal stripe 

 on the abdomen ; and the legs are red, as is also the head, in 

 some of the allied species of Agyrta. 



