254 ARCTIAD^. 



6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from bevond 7 ; 1 1 free. Hind 

 wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 3 from angle ; 4, 5 shortly 

 stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Hind wing crimson coccinea. 



B. Hind wing blue-black tenehrosa. 



*533. Nyctosia coccinea. (Plate XXY. fig. 6.) 

 Nyctosia coccinea, Scliaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 217 (1899). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black with slight bluish gloss. 

 Fore wing dull brownish black. Hind wing crimson, with black 

 fascia on costal area and the cilia black. 



Hob. Mexico, 1 § , tj'pet in Coll. Schaus. Exjp. 38 millim. 



534. Nyctosia tenebrosa. 



Apistosia tenebrom, Wlk. sxxv. 1881 (1866) ; Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Am., 



Het. i. p. 121 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 286. 

 Ctenucha proxima, H. Edw. Pap. iv. p. 14 (1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 178. 



Head and thorax orange-red ; palpi, antennse, a patch between 

 their bases, tegulae, patagia, and legs blue-black ; abdomen blue- 

 black ; the end of anal tuft orange in male. Fore wing black shot 

 with bronze-green. Hind wing black shot with dull blue. 



Fig. 169. — Nyctosia tenebrosa, (^ . \. 



Hah. Mexico, 1 d , 1 $ type, Jalapa {Hoege, TrujilJo), 2 cS ,1 $ , 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Guatemala. Kv2). 48-52 millim. 



Genus SYNTOMIMORPHA, nov. 



Type, S. cariilescens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, smoothly scaled, the 2nd joirtt 

 reaching nearly to vertex of head, the 3rd well developed ; frons smoothly 

 scaled ; anteTrnje of male ciliated ; tibiie with the spurs short ; abdomen 

 extending well beyond hind wing. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa 

 arched towards apex, termen obliquely rounded ; vein 3 from well befoi-e 

 angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosiHg with 8 to form a long areole, 7 from areole ; 11 free; retinaculum of 

 male formed by a tuft of hair from submedian fold. Hind wing of male with 

 the tornus produced to a lobe, the inner margin folded over below, covering a 

 fringe of Icng -white hair ; vein 3 from before angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle; 8 from middle of cell. 



