370 AM AT ID. E. 



edge except at base, the inner margin and a terminal band black 

 with a slight bluish gloss, the last expanding widely on apical area 

 and moderately towards tornus ; cilia white towards apex and above 

 tornus. Hind wing black with a faint bluish gloss; cilia white at 

 apex and below vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area broadly 

 crimson from near base to well beyond middle. 



Hah. Mextco, Espinal (Schaits), type f § in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



1155 h. Ctenucha nantana. 



Ammalo nantana, Wlk. xxxi. p. 282 (1864) ; Butl. 111. Het. B.M. i. p. 54, 



pi. 19. f. 2 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 270. 

 Ctenucha rubicunda, Dogn. Le Nat. (2) xix. p. 10 (1905). 



r? . Black-brown ; base of palpi, frons, tegube. femora, and 

 tibia? marked with metallic blue ; abdomen banded with metallic 

 blue. Fore wing with metallic blue spot at base and short streak- 

 on inner margin ; a narrow orange fascia from base through the 

 cell to near termen ; cilia orange towards tornus. Hind wing with 

 broad medial scarlet band occupying about one-third of wing, 

 angled outwards below vein 1 and expanding to near apex; cilia 

 orange except towards apex. 



Hah. Amazons. Nanta {Bates), 1 3 type; Peru, Huancabamba, 

 2 6 . Exp. 42 millim. 



1156. Ctenucha cyaniris, insert (svn.) : — 



Ctenucha annulata, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 137 (1904). 



5 . Abdomen with more or less prominent yellow segmental lines 

 except on last two segments ; hind wing with the orange patch on 

 costal area more or less reduced ; underside of fore wing with some 

 metallic blue but no white suffusion, of hind wing with much less 

 white suffusion on basal area. 



Panama ; Bolivia, Yungas la Paz. Type f $ in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 



*1156 a. Ctenucha refulgens. (Plate XXL fig. 11.) 



Ctenucha refulgens, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xliii. p. 327 (1S99). 



8 ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the vertex of head and 

 dorsal surface of thorax and abdomen shot with brilliant blue ; the 

 frons, base of palpi, pectus, ventral surface of abdomen, and greater 

 part of legs white. Fore wing black suffused with brilliant blue, in 

 cell to middle and on inner area to beyond middle ; an oblique orange 

 medial band from below costa to above inner margin. Hind wing 

 black suffused with brilliant blue to two-thirds of wing. Underside 

 bluish white, on fore wing to middle, on hind wing all except an 

 apical black patchy 



Hab. Ecuador, type f 8 in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 28 millim. 



