CTENUCHA. 37 L 



*1156 b. Ctenucha biformis. (Plate XXI. fig. 12.) 



Ctenucha biformis, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 221 (19)7). 



c? . Head and thorax black with brilliant metallic blue patches 

 on frons, vertex of head, tegula?, patagia, and metathorax ; palpi 

 blue in front and with white points at base ; basal joint of antenna' 

 with white points ; legs streaked with blue, the coxa? with white 

 patches, the extremities of tibiae and the tarsi mostly white; 

 abdomen black almost entirely suffused with brilliant metallic blue, 

 a white ventral fascia. Fore wing black with metallic blue stripes 

 below basal half of costa and above vein 1 to beyond middle and 

 some blue irroration above and below median nervure to beyond 

 middle ; a deep crimson patch in end of cell and broad oblique 

 band from below end of cell to above tornus ; diffused blue streaks 

 above and below base of vein 4. Hind wing black with diffused 

 metallic blue streaks above and below median nervure to just 

 beyond angle of cell and on vein 4 ; the underside metallic blue, 

 the terminal area very irregularly black, on costa extending to 

 before middle, a white spot in end of cell and patch below end of 

 cell. 



2 ■ Fore wing with the patch and band orange ; hind wing with- 

 out the white spot in cell on underside. 



Hab. Peeu, Cagon, type f J , $ in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 32 

 millim. 



*1157tf. Ctenucha garleppi. (Plate XXI. fig. 13.) 



Cteniirhn garleppi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 184 (1912). 



c? . Head and thorax black-brown with some metallic blue 

 suffusion ; palpi at base, frons and guise white ; coxa? white ; 

 femora and tibia? streaked with white ; abdomen black-brown 

 suffused with metallic blue, the ventral surface white except at 

 extremity. Fore wing black-brown, the basal area suffused with 

 metallic blue, its outer edge oblique ; a broad oblique orange band 

 from just below middle of costa to just above inner margin towards 

 tornus. Hind wing black-brown suffused with metallic blue except 

 on apical area ; a large conical orange patch from subterminal part 

 of costa to vein 2. Underside of fore wing with some white on 

 base of costa and on basal half of inner area ; hind wing with the 

 basal area suffused with white running obliquely to tornus. 



2 • Abdomen with diffused orange dorsal streak except on basal 

 and anal segments; fore wing with the orange band ending at 

 vein 1 and the blue extending to near tornus ; hind wing with 

 the orange patch irrorated with brown. 



Hub. Peku, Cuzco (Garlej)j>), type f d in Coll. Rothschild, 

 Chulumanito (Simons). Exp. rj 36, § 30 millim. 



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