VIZAGA. 567 



wing pale red, the inner area white, the costal area and terminal 

 area to vein 2 irrorated with brown ; hind wing with the costal 

 half pale red irrorated with brown, the inner halt white. 



Hah. Bk. I^. Guinea, Dinawa (Fmtt), type t 5 in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker^ Mt. Kebea. Esj). 42 inillim. 



Genus VIZAGA. 



Type. 



Jtzaffci, Sw'inh. A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 491 (1901) ci/a?iea.. 



Pardydna, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 211 (190B) mirabilis. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and rather slenderly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons sniootli ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennas of male minutely ciliated; ihorax clothed witli scales 

 and hair mixed and without crests ; tibiaj slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 with dorsal crests on two basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; vein 3 from well before angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form a rather long areole ; 11 from cell ; male with two depressed grooves 

 in end of cell which is rounded at extremity. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 stalked ; 5 fully developed from above angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the terminal area not suffused with red and 



with white streaks in the interspaces cyanea. 



B. Fore wing with the terminal area suffused with red and 



without white streaks in the interspaces mirabilis. 



6972. Vizaga cyanea. 



Ophiusa cyanea, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiv. p. 129, pi. 14. f. 2 (1881). 



Head white ; palpi blue-black with some white scales, the 1st 

 joint white above and below, the extremity of 2nd joint white ; 

 antenncB black ; thorax fulvous yellow ; pectus and legs white, the 

 tibiee and tarsi blue ringed with white ; abdomen cobalt-blue 

 (fading to pale blood-red) with white segmental lines, the anal tuft 

 ochreous. Fore wing fulvous yellow to beyond middle with a 



Fig. 210. — Vizaga cyanea, (^ . \. 



greenish tinge on inner area and towards its outer edge which is 

 straight and erect, followed by a white band ; the terminal area 

 cobalt-blue Avith white streaks in the interspaces ; cilia white with 

 a few blue scales towards tornus. Hind wing cobalt-blue ; a slight 

 white discoidal lunule; cilia white mixed with blue. Underside of 

 fore wing blue, the inner area white, the white postmedial band 



