SAURITA. 1 83 



brownish, the veins blaek. Hind wing hyaline tinged with 

 fuscous towards apex ; the veins black. Fore wing with vein b" from 

 rather below angle of cell, 9 absent. 



Hab. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, type t 2 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 32 millim. 



59S b. Saurita pellucida. 



Pseudomya pellucida, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 274 ; id. Am. Lep. p. 4, 

 pi. i. f. 4. 



Fuscous black ; head and thorax with a few white hairs. 

 Fore wing hyaline, the veins and markings black ; suffused with 

 smoky black to costa beyond middle and termen at vein 2. Hind 

 wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black ; the costal 

 area suffused with smoky black. 



Hab. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, I 2 • Exp. 20 millim. 



*598 c. Saurita hemiphaea. (Plate IX. rig. 28.) 



Saurita hemiphxa, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii. p. 215 (1909). 

 Saurita pipio, Oberth. Et. Lep. Comp. vi. p. 329, pi. 127. f. 1132 (1912). 



6 ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; frons and tegulaj with 

 small metallic blue spots ; shoulders with small white spots with 

 larger crimson spots behind them ; palpi white at base ; pectus 

 with blue spots at sides ; coxa? and ventral surface of abdomen 

 white. Fore wing with the basal half and inner area below vein 2 

 black, slight semihyaline streaks below base of cell and in its upper 

 extremity, the rest of wing hyaline with the veins and termen 

 black. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, inner margin towards tornus, 

 and termen black. Underside of fore wing with the retinaculum 

 white, a metallic blue streak in lower extremity of cell ; hind wing 

 with metallic blue on basal half of costa and in cell. 



Hab. Fr. Guiana, Maroni, type f <S in Coll. Dognin; Pkru. 

 Exp. 24. millim. 



.599. Saurita attenuata, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xv. p. 128 (1901 >. 



Pseudomya tenuis, Butl. 111. Het. B.M. i. p. 30, pi 17. f. 1 (1877), ncc 

 Butl. 1876. 



,599 a. Saurita ladan. Druce, trans, from Cosmosoma, no. 552. 



*599 b. Saurita diaphana. 



Saurita diaphana, Dog-n. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1. p. 179 (1906). 



c{ . Abdomen with large ventral valvs. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the last with slight greyish 

 Segmental lines, the ventral valve slightly tipped with grey. Fore 



