246 AECTIAD^. 



517. Cisthene cypris. 



Evscivo cvpris, Drnce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 176 (1894) ; id. Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 397, pi. 78. f. 5. 



Palpi, frons, and antennae black ; vertex of head and thorax 

 orange ; pectus and legs black ; abdomen black, tinged with orange 

 towards base, and the anal tuft orange. Fore wing grey-black; a 

 broad slightly oblique antemedial orange band ; a curved subter- 

 minal band from below costa to vein 2. Hind wing with the basal 

 half orange, with fuscous patch at base of costa ; the terminal half 

 black. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalisco (^Schumann, Eicliardson), 2 c5" , 1 ^ type ; 

 GiJATEMALA, Yera Paz (Chamjnon), 1 cS , Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. 30-38 millim. 



518. Cisthene tiniciiicta, n. sp. • (Plate XXV. fig. 24.) 



S . Black-brown ; vertex of head, tegulas, and metathorax orange 

 fulvous. Fore wing with curved narrow subterrainal orange band 

 not qiiite reaching costa or inner margin. Underside of fore wing 

 with traces of orange band ; of hind wing with slight orange suffusion 

 in cell and on basal part of inner area. 



Hob. Colombia, Bogotii, 1 S type. Exp. 36 millim. 



519. Cisthene ruficollis. 



Evd.es7nia ruficollis, Hiibn. Samml. Ex. Schmett. ii. (1824) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 292. 



S . Blue-black ; tegulae and shoulders orange ; abdomen with 

 the 2nd to 6th segments orange, with dorsal maculate black fascia. 

 F^'ore wing with broad orange medial band, its inner edge slightly 

 sinuous, its outer edge excurved ; a somewhat triangular subter- 

 minal orange patch below apex and a smaller spot between veins 2 

 and 3. Hind wing dull black, with broad medial orange band with 

 somewhat sinuous edges. 



2 with the markings orange-yellow. 

 Hah. Brazil, Theresopolis, 1 "c? , 2 $ . Exp. 38-50 millim. 



520. Cisthene cynara. 



Bn/cea apuira, "Di-uce, A. IM. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 176 (1894) ; id. Biol. Oentr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 395, pi. 77. f. 16. 



S . Black with a slight purplish tinge ; tegulse and patagia 

 orange. Fore wing wilh broad orange-yellow fascia from base in 

 and below cell to beyond upper angle, where it is rounded, its lower 

 edge somewhat angled at middle of vein 1 ; a curved eubterminal 

 band from below costa to submedian fold, attenuate at extremities. 

 Hind wing with broad orange-yellow fascia from base to middle of 

 costa ; vein 5 from rather near angle of cell. 



Hah. Mexico, Durango (Becler), 1 6 type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



