AGYRTA. — PTYCHOTRICHOS. 291 



Hab. Venezuela, Caura R., La Vuelta (Klages), type t d, ? 

 in Coll. Rothschild, Guyapa, Maripa. Exp. 38 millim. 



•1044 c. Agyrta mathani. (Plate XVI. fig. 18.) 



Agyrta mathani, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 161 (1912). 



2 . Head and thorax black, the frons, vertex of head, tegulae, 

 arid metathorax with metallic blue patches, the patagia with blue 

 and greyish streaks at edges; coxae and femora streaked with 

 white ; abdomen black suffused with metallic blue, a slight dorsal 

 white streak and pair of ventral fascia?. Fore wing black with 

 brilliant metallic blue fasciae below costa and on vein 1 to beyond 

 middle ; an oblique hyaline band from upper angle of cell to just 

 above vein 2 towards termen with some metallic blue suffusion 

 beyond it ; cilia white towards apex. Hind wing black suffused 

 with metallic blue ; a hyaline fascia in, below, and beyond the cell. 

 Underside of fore wing glossed with blue, some white below base 

 of cell. 



Hab. Colombia, Muzo (M. de Maihari), type t 2 in Coll. 

 Rothschild, Cundinamarca, Cananche ; Ecuador, Paramba. 

 Exp. 12 millim. 



1017. Phara flavicosta, insert : — • 



Phara flavicosta, missionum, Jorgensen, Zeits. Wissens. Insektenbiol. ix. 

 p. 76, fig-. 5 (1913). 



Abdomen with the band whitish yellow. 

 Argentina, Missiones. 



*1019 a. Phara sanguipalpis. (Plate XVI. fig. 19.) 



Phara sanguipalpis, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 224 (1907). 



5 . Head and thorax black ; palpi crimson except 3rd joint ; 

 vertex of head crimson with narrow black dorsal streak; abdomen 

 black suffused with metallic blue. Fore wing black-brown with a 

 greyish tinge ; the cilia tipped with white towards tornus. Hind 

 wing blue-black, the cilia tipped with white towards tornus. 

 Hab. Peru, Cagon, type t in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 30 millim. 



*1055a. Ptychotrichos elongata. (Plate XVI. fig. 20.) 

 Ptychotrichos elongata, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 190 (1905). 



c? . Head and thorax greyish brown, the palpi, frons, vertex of 

 head, and greater part of tegulaj fuscous ; patagia with orange 

 streak near upper edge which is fuscous ; metathorax with orange 

 spot ; pectus and legs brown ; coxae and base of legs wliite, the 

 fore coxa? yellow behind, the fore femora streaked with white, the 

 tarsi ringed with white; abdomen orange with large dorsal fuscous 

 brown patch extending to 4th segment, the terminal segments with 

 black lines, the extremity black, the anal tuft white; the ventral 



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