LEPIBOPTEBA OP THE FAMILY ZYGiENlDiE. 393 



12. D. LUCETius = Sphinx luoetius, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 357. 

 f. D. 



Surinam. 



13. D. HEMILEUCA, H. Sp. 



Nearly allied to D. tenthredoides, but smaller, without the orange spot 

 on the centre of the thorax, the metallic spots on the posterior abdo- 

 minal segments less vivid ; primaries with a broader and more regular 

 transverse black band ; legs and pectus paler ; abdomen cream- 

 coloured, the terminal segments brown in the female : expanse of wings 

 (S 22 millims. 



Eastern Peru {Degand). Type, B.M. 



14. D. TENTHREDoiDES = Ilipa teuthredoides, Walker, Lep. Het. vii. 

 p. 1610. 



Ega (Bates). 



15. D. iNTERSECTA=i:Eurata intersecta, H'alker, Lep. Het. Suppl. i. 

 p. 91. 



Ega (Bates). Type, B.M. 



\G. D. ALBivENTRis = Glaucopis (Phacusa) albiventris. Walker, Lep. 



Het. i. p. IJG. 

 Para (Bates). Type, B.M. 



17. D. VARiPES = Glaucopis (Phacusa) varipes, Walker, Lep. Het. i. 



p. 175. 

 Pai-a (Bates). Type, B.M. 



IH. D. MARGARIPHERA, n. Sp. 



Head, collar, and antennae black, two dark blue metallic spots on the 

 back of the head and two on the collar ; pterygodes black, with a lon- 

 gitudinal yellow streak ; thorax black, a dark blue spot on centre of 

 hinder part of thorax ; basal segment of abdomen black, with its hind 

 margin orange, and on each side a blue spot : glandular drums 

 orange ; the second to fourth segments scarlet, the fifth to seventh 

 black, all of them with a pearly opaline spot on each side : wings 

 yellowish testaceous, veins (excepting on the borders of dark spots) 

 and all the margins (excepting where interrupted by dark patches) 

 yellow ; primaries with a large subquadrate jet-black spot at end of 

 cell enclosing two metallic dark blue spots, apex broadly, and exter- 

 nal angle less broadly dark brown ; secondaries with the apex, outer 

 margin, and anal angle dark brown : palpi yellow, tipped with black ; 

 pectus brown ; legs yellow, the tibiaj brown above and irrorated with 

 metallic-blue scales ; venter yellow, scarlet at the sides, with the last 

 two segments dark brown : expanse of wings 34 millims. 



Para (Bates). Type, B.M. 



A beautiful species, intermediate in pattern between D. varipes 



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