474 



KOCXUlDiE. 



7599, Prionoptera socorrensis. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 3.) 



Prionoptera socorrensis, Dogn. Het. Nouv. Am. Slid, vi. ined. 



cJ . Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with ochreous 

 and rufous ; palpi and frons dark brown, the former ochreous in 

 front ; tibice and tarsi ochreous ; abdomen red-brown, some ochreous 

 at base of sides, the anal tuft and sublateral streaks ochreous. 

 Fore wing purplish red-brown sparsely irrorated with black, the 

 medial area, basal part of postmedial and apical part of terminal 

 area more ochreous, the inner margin with bright rufous streak ; 

 subbasal line brown defined on outer side by ochreous, excurved below 

 . costa, then oblique and ending at vein 1; antemedial line brown 

 defined on each side by ochreous, almost erect and slightly sinuous ; 

 orbicular with whitish annulus, round ; reniform with pale centre 

 defined by brown and whitish annulus, somewhat produced at upper 

 extremity and angled inwards on median nervure ; a waved brown 

 medial line ; postmedial line ochreous defined on inner side by 

 small blackish spots to vein 4 and by a blackish mark at inner 

 margin, excurved and slightly waved to vein 4, then incurved and 

 again excurved below vein 2 ; a faint sinuous line defining the 

 ochreous and red-brown areas ; an indistinct brown postmedial 

 line excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a series of small dark 

 spots just before termen defined on outer side by pale striae ; a fine 

 pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown ; a small rufous 

 patch at tornus defined on inner side by a dark striga ; a series of 

 minute dark spots before termen ; cilia chequered dark brown and 

 rufous; the underside ochreous irrorated with browm, some brown 

 suffusion on basal costal area extending into the cell, a curved 

 brown band just beyond middle and a diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. Colombia, Monte Socorro {Fassl), 1 (5 co-type. Evp. 52 

 mi Him. 



7600. Prionoptera sexonia. 



Sypna cexonia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 367, pi. 32. f. 3(1890). 



cJ . Head and thorax bright red-brown with some dark scales ; 

 palpi dark brown ; pectus and legs pale red-brow^n, the spurs 

 with dark rings ; abdomen greyish brown, the crest on 2nd segment 

 darker at tip. Fore wing bright red-brown slightly irrorated 

 with black scales ; subbasal line slight, pale, almost straight, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with 

 reddish ochreous, almost straight and erect, a black spot beyond 

 it below vein 1 ; two black points with a faint pale mark between 

 them in middle of cell ; reniform with slight pale annulus, narrow, 

 somewhat produced at upper extremity ; postnaedial line rather 

 diffused, dark, strongly incurved and defined on inner side by a fine 

 pale line below discal fold, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line slight, dark, incurved at discal fold and excurved 

 at middle, below vein 2 forming two black lunules with a whitish 



