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ARCTIID^. 



ACLYTIA, Hubner. 

 Aclytia halys. (Plate X. fig. 6.) 



Sphinx halys, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 129, pi. 357. fig. C (1784). 

 Aclytia halys, Hulner,Verz. bek. Schnett. p. 123. n. 1337 (1816). 

 Aclytia heher, var., £ , Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. vii. p. 1631 (1856). 



Primaries olive-brown j a narrow, slightly oblique postmedian band : secondaries hyaline 

 white, the veins and borders black. Head black ; margins of frons and two spots behind the 

 eyes ochreous ; collar black, the anterior and lateral margins ochreous ; thorax and base of 

 abdomen dark brown, remainder of abdomen blue, with purplish reflections. Primaries below 

 with white inner margin. Body dark brown ; palpi below orange ; upper surface of tro- 

 chanters and a median stripe on the venter bright ochreous ; coxae white. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 3 lines. 



Santarem (Bates). 



Aclytia flavigutta. (Plate VIII. fig. 3.) 

 Euchromia (Aclytia) flavigutta, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 246. n. 79 (1854). 



Nearly allied to the preceding species, but the transverse band of primaries reduced to a 

 small spot at end of cell. Body dark brown; two dots behind the eyes and the lateral 

 margins of the collar ochreous ; abdomen broadly metallic green at the sides ; trochanters 

 and ventral stripe white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 



Brazil. 



The colouring of the abdomen alone readily distinguishes this species from A. halys. In 

 A.heber, which comes nearer to A. flavigutta, the head and collar are spotted with white, and 

 the trochanters and ventral stripe are of a purer white colour ; the secondaries also have a 

 narrower black border. 



CHARIDEA, Batman. 



Charidea snbmacula. (Plate XIII. fig. 7.) 



Euchromia (Automolis) submacula, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 214. n. 13 (1854). 



Dark brown : primaries with a carmine basicostal streak, below which is a metallic 

 green streak, base and inner margin streaked with green ; a rather broad interno-median 

 carmine streak, yellowish on its lower edge ; a subapical ochreous band, becoming red at each 

 extremity : secondaries shot with blue at the base ; two ill-defined carmine spots beyond the 

 middle. Body spotted and banded with metallic green. Wings below dark brown : primaries 

 with a broad interno-median carmine patch, yellowish on its lower edge ; subapical band as 

 above : secondaries with the interno-basal area brilliantly shot with metallic green ; three 



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