302 AMATIDiE. 



*10G4 a. Delphyre flaviventralis. (Plate XVII. fig. 12.) 

 Delphyre flaviventralis, Hmpsn. A.M.N. H. (7) viii. p. 174 (1901). 



2 . Fuscous brown ; palpi with the 1st joint orange ; back of 

 head with two orange spots ; abdomen with orange ventral stripe 

 not reaching extremity. Fore wing with oblique whitish hand 

 across end of cell from subcostal nervure to submedian fold ; an 

 oblique postmedial band from vein 7 to 3. Hind wing black with 

 hyaline patch in, below, and beyond the cell. 



Sab. Venezuela, type f $ in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 34 millim. 



1064 1. Delphyre flaviceps. (Plate XVII. fig. 13.) 



Neacerea flaviceps, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 463 (1905). 

 DeVpMre klagesi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 165 (1912). 



cT . Head and thorax dark grey with bluish black streaks ; vertex 

 of head, base of palpi, and front of pectus orange-yellow ; abdomen 

 blue-black, greyish at base, the ventral surface orange-yellow except 

 at base and extremity. Fore w r ing greyish fuscous, the veins black ; 

 an ill-defined whitish streak below middle of cell ; an oblique post- 

 medial white band from vein 7 to 3 near termen, the veins crossing 

 it dark. Hind wing black, the lower part of cell and area below 

 and beyond it hyaline ; a slight hyaline streak at base of inner 

 area. 



Sab. Venezuela, Caura Valley (Klages), 4 c?; La Union 

 (Klages), type t <S l'la<j(si in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 42 millim. 



1065. Delphyre testacea, insert (syn.) : — 



Delphyre monotona, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxviii. p. 231 (1910). 



*1065 a. Delphyre nigra. (Plate XVII. fig. 14.) 



Neacerea nigra, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 136 (1904). 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown, the back of head 

 and base of patagia with blue spots ; abdomen with lateral orange 

 bands except on basal segments, dorsally complete on terminal 

 segment. Fore wing uniform fuscous brown. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the lower part of cell and area just below it hyaline. 



Sab. Panama, Chiriqui, type 1 6 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 42 millim. 



Genus MES0CEREA, nov. 



Type, M. apicalis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching- to vertex 

 of head, the 3rd short ; antenna? of male bipectinate with short branches 

 dilated at extremities, the arncal part serrate ; tibia? with the spurs short ; 



