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*1174 a. Dahana cubana. (Plate XXI. fig. 20.) 



Dahana cubana, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 136 (1904). 



c? . Head and thorax greyish black; base of palpi, gulae, and 

 front of pectus scarlet; some blue un head, tegulae, and prothorax 

 and stripes on upper edge of patagia ; abdomen metallic blue with 

 the last three segments scarlet and dorsal triangular patch on 

 three segments before them, the ventral surface brown. Fore wing 

 greenish black with some blue at base. Hind wing brilliant blue, 

 the terminal area irregularly black shot with blue. Underside of 

 fore wing brilliant blue to beyond middle. 



Hah. Cuba, Tanamo, type t in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



*1170 a. Epectaptera miniata. (Plate XXI. fig. 27.) 



Ectaptera miniata, "Roths. Nov. Zool. xxx. p. 185 (1912). 



J. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown; antennae blackish; 



palpi and legs with some brownish white hair; ventral surface of 

 abdomen brownish white. Fore wing red-brown, the costal area 

 tinged with whitish to beyond middle with a crimson streak on 

 costa to middle, then below costa to the end of the pale area ; minute 

 hyaline subterminal spots above and below vein 4. Hind wing 

 scarlet, the base dark brown with irregular outer edge ; blackish 

 streaks on the veins and in cell and a narrow discoidal lunule ; the 

 inner margin dark brown ; the terminal area dark brown, its inner 

 edge excurved between veins 5 and 3, then incurved. Underside of 

 fore wing orange-scarlet, the veins and cell with dark streaks, dark 

 fascial in base of cell and on inner margin and a darker band 

 beyond the cell from vein to 1 ; hind wing with the terminal 

 band almost obsolete from apex to vein 3. 



Ihth. Peru, Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco (Bottger). type t S 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 38 millim. 



1170 b. Epectaptera discalis. (Plate XXL fig. 28.) 



Epectaptera discalis, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 194 (1905). 



cS ■ Head and thorax fuscous brown ; fore coxae with metallic 

 blue patches ; abdomen metallic blue with some fuscous hair at 

 base and the ventral surface fuscous. Fore wing fuscous brown 

 with slight pale irroration ; a quadrate yellowish white spot in 

 middle of cell, irrorated with fuscous hair and bisected by a dark 

 streak in discal fold; an ill-defined dark postmedial line oblique 

 from costa to vein 5, then angled inwards and ending at vein 8. 

 Hind wing yellow tinged with scarlet, the marginal areas broadly 

 fuscous. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing yellow without scarlet tinge. 



Hub. Peku, Carabaya, 1 <^, Agualani (Ockenderi), 2 <$ . 

 Exp. 30 millim. Type f 6 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



