PAKATPvACHEA. 



21' 



line and yellow anuulus, extending to below cell, angled inwards 

 on median nervure and confluent with the orbicular, a black-brown 

 patch in cell between them ; medial line indistinct, oblique^ from 

 costa to median nervure, then irregular ; postmedial line indistincily 

 double filled in with yellow, bent outwards below costa, then 

 sinuous, oblique below vein 4, angled inwards in submedian fold 

 and bent outwards again, with a dark rufous patch beyond it on 

 inner area and some pale points on costa ; subterminal line with 

 some dark scale;?, but chiefly defined by the contrast between the 



31. — Faratrachea laches, J . 



olive and purplish areas, obliquely incurved, slightly escurvcd and 

 waved below veins 7, 6 : cilia olive-yellow, dark brown at tips 

 except towards tornus. Hind wing pale yellowish suff'used with 

 red-brown except basal and costal areas ; cilia yellow ; the under- 

 side whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with pink, a slight 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Bab. Panama. Chiriqui (Chamjnon), 1 $ type, Godmau-Salvin 

 Coll. ; S.E. Peru, St. Domingo, 1 c? , 1 $ . Kvj). -18 millim. 



2994. Paratrachea chalybeata. (Plate CXIII. fig. 25.) 



Ncsnia chalyleata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 64; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 214. 

 Hadena spectahiUs, Pouj. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. ex. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with a few white hairs ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface 

 with a few white hairs, the anal tuft mixed with oehreous. Pore 

 wing deep red-brown mixed with some pale rufous and irrorated 

 with silvery purple scales especially on the veins ; subbasal line 

 silvery purple, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line silvery purple, oblique, angled inwards in cell, on vein 1, and 

 to inner margin ; claviform faintly defined by brown at extremity ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by deep brown, open below and 

 connected by a slight brown streak above median nervure, the 

 former oblique elliptical, the latter large with flesh-coloured annulus ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with silvery purple and defined by 

 pale rufous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutety 

 dentate and with white points beyond it on the veins, oblique below 

 vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 



