THYONE. 649 



medial band defined on each side by brownish suffusion, especially 

 on outer side towards inner margin. Hind wing yellow slightly 

 tinged with scarlet ; veins 3, 4 from cell. 



1 fab. Fe. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), 1 tf , type t 6 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 18 millim. 



*729 c. Thyone purpurea. 



Thyone purpurea, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1914, p. 8, pi. 1. f. 18. 



2 ■ Head and thorax dark purple-brown with some metallic blue 

 suffusion, the metathorax with yellowish white patch ; abdomen 

 dark brown with some metallic blue suffusion except at base. Fore 

 wing dark purple-brown ; some metallic blue suffusion at base and 

 on costa ; obliquely placed elongate ochreous white antemedial 

 patches above and below vein 1 ; an ochreous white spot in the 

 cell towards extremity and spot above it below the costa ; a post- 

 medial band formed of elongate ochreous white marks in the inter- 

 spaces, the mark above inner margin rather nearer the base. Hind 

 wing dark brown. 



Hab. Bbazil, Castro Parana (D. Jones), type f 2 in Coll. 

 H. Jones. Exp. 30 millim. 



731 a. Thyone muricolor. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 5.) 



Thyone muricolor, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 198 (1905). 



Head and thorax brown with a bluish gloss ; abdomen blue- 

 black. Fore wing brown with a bluish gloss. Hind wing black- 

 brown. 



Hab. Fr. Guiana, Cayenne (Schaus), 1 d ; Beazil, Sao Paulo, 

 Aracatuba ; Argentina, Gova (Pen-ens), 1 $ . Exp. 20 millim. 

 Type t 2 in U.S. Nat. Mus.' 



731 b. Thyone grisescens. (Plate XXXI V. tig. 0.) 



Thyone yrisescens, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 302 (1911). 



cT . Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey, the last tinged 

 with fuscous on terminal half ; palpi at tips and legs tinged with 

 fuscous. Fore wing uniform purplish grey. Hind wing somewhat 

 duller purplish grey. 



Hab. Costa Rica, Juan Yinas (Scluuis), 1 S • Exp. 20 

 millim. 



*731 c. Thyone trimaculata. (Plate XXXIV. 6g. 7.) 



Thyone trimaculata, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 116. 



J. Pure white; fore legs and the mid tibiae and tarsi black 

 above. Fore wing with the costal edge black at base ; a small 



