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coalescent, dull rose-red, the subapical spot redder ; bases of all the wings metallic green : 

 body brown, green-spotted. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. 

 Ecuador (Buckley). 



Charidea gloriosa. (Plate X. fig. 10.) 



Euchromia (Automolis) gloriosa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 215. n. 16 (1854). 



Wings black : primaries with a median streak and an oval oblique spot crossing the second 

 median branch, carmine; base, two internal stripes, and two subcostal dots beyond the cell 

 metallic green : basal half of secondaries shot with blue, and reflecting greenish metallic 

 streaks. Body blue-green, varied with brown. "Wings below much as above, but brilliantly 

 shot (to beyond the middle) with blue and golden green : primaries with the median streak 

 considerably broader, and not reaching the base : anterior legs white internally. Expanse of 

 wings 1 inch 6 to 7 lines. 

 Guatemala (Salle). 



METRIOPHYLA, n. gen. 



Nearly allied to Heliura, but the sexes alike : the secondaries more truncate than in 

 Heliura $ , the first subcostal more pronounced, upper discocellular less inarched and 

 slanting forwards ; the second and third median branches emitted from a short footstalk. 

 Type M. apicalis. 



Metriopkyla apicalis. (Plate VIII. fig. 7.) 



Charidea apicalis, Herrlch-Scluiffer, Auss. Schmett. i. fig. 236. 

 Histioca apicalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. vii. p. 1624 (1856). 

 Heliura apicalis, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soe. p. 417, pi. 29. fig. 9 (1876). 

 Euchromia albiplaga, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 218. n. 21 (1854). 



Black-brown : wings with white apical spots : primaries with a short costal streak, a long 

 internal streak, and a spot in the cell, metallic green. Head spotted with green ; collar, 

 margius of tegulae, a central thoracic line, and three rows of spots on the abdomen, metallic 

 green ; a white spot on each shoulder ; antenna? steel-blue above. Primaries below with a 

 basal streak, a large spot in the cell, and two spots beyond it, metallic green : secondaries 

 with the base of costal area, the lower half of the cell, a streak below it, two abdominal streaks, 

 and two subapical spots, metallic green ; apical white spot larger than above ; fringe white ; 

 coxae and femora below metallic green ; sides of venter spotted with green ; palpi below, tro- 

 chanters, superior surface of tibia?, and a central longitudinal ventral streak, white. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



Venezuela (Dyson), Veragua (Salvin). 



Sphinx porphyria of Cramer, and Dioplis glaucopoides of Walker, may be referred to the 

 above genus, unless it be considered preferable (on account of their broader wings) to retain 

 Walker's name Erchia for them. 



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