ISO AMATIDJS. 



*589«. Ehyuchopyga castra. (Plate IX. fig. 21.) 



Rhynohopyga castra, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1912, p. 419. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; palpi at base and 

 sides of Irons with some white ; tegulie white at dorsal and outer 

 edges ; shoulders with crimson spots; fore coxa? white, the fore and 

 mid legs streaked with white on inner side ; abdomen with sub- 

 dorsal crimson patches on 2nd and 3rd segments, the anal segment 

 with lateral white streak, the ventral surface crimson edged with 

 white above towards extremity and at extremity, some white at base 

 of ventral valve. Fore wing with the basal half black-brown, the 

 terminal half fulvous brown ; two hyaline streaks in cell and a 

 streak below the cell ; a yellow spot beyond the cell from just 

 below costa to diseal fold. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and 

 margins black-brown, the costal and terminal areas suffused with 

 brown. 



$> . Shoulders without crimson spots, the palpi, fore coxa 3 , and 

 legs without white ; abdomen with white spots on the crimson 

 subdorsal patches, the ventral surface brown with a crimson patch 

 at base with a white bar on 2nd segment. 



Hub. Brazil, Castro Parana {D. Jones), type f d, $ in Coll. 

 D.Jones. Exp., 6 32, $ 34 millim. 



*589 b. Rhynchopyga braconida. (Plate IX. fig. 22.) 



Ehyncopyga braconida, Kaye, Entom. xliv. p. 143 (1911) ; id. Trans. Ent 

 Soc. 1913, pi. 1. f. 8.' 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown with a slight bluish 

 gloss ; mid and hind femora white at extremities ; abdomen with 

 deep crimson bands on 2nd and 3rd segments and lateral patches at 

 base, the ventral valve white at sides at base and followed by three 

 crimson bands and some whitish sublateral marks. Fore wing 

 dark brown with slight wedge-shaped hyaline mark in end of cell 

 and orange-yellow patch beyond the cell from below costa to vein 5. 

 Hind wing dark brown with semihyaline streaks in the inter- 

 spaces. 



Hab. Brazil, Santos, Alto da Serra {Kaye), type t 6 in Coll. 

 Kaye. E.rp. 28 millim. 



*590a. Rhynchopyga semirufa. (Plate IX. fig. 23.) 

 Rhynchopyga semirufa, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xviii. p. 78 (1906). 



S . Head and thorax black ; Irons with bluish white lateral 

 patches ; patagia crimson ; pectus and legs black, the coxae white ; 

 abdomen crimson with broad black dorsal stripe, the ventral valve 

 white. Vow wing black-brown, the interspaces to well beyond the 

 cell hyaline irrorated with some black scales : somecrimson at base. 



