600 JfOCTUID.E. 



Geuus FRACAEA. 



Type. 

 Fracara, WIL ix. 146 (1856) viridata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi npturned. the 2nd joint moderately fringed 

 ■with hair in front and reaching about to vertex of head, tlie 3rd rather long ; 

 irons smooth ; eves large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with rough scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; 

 build slender ; t\b\sz moderately fringed wich hair ; abdomen with doi-sal series 

 of crests, the crests on 3rd and 4th segments large. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen excised below apex, excurved at middle, then oblique ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell, 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 

 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



3472. Fracara viridata. 



Foctua viridata, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 44, pi. 311. f. D (1782). 



(S . Head and thorax white mixed with greenish blue ; pectus 

 and legs white ; abdomen white tinged with ochreous and dorsally 

 with greenish blue at base. Fore wing whitish blue, the basal, 

 medial, and postmedial areas suffused with green : antemedial line 

 very indistinct, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then inwardly 

 oblique ; orbicular and reniform scarlet with white annuli, small, 



Fig. 155. — Fracara viridata, <S ■ f- 



elliptical, closely approximated ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 only defined by the contrast between the green and blue areas. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area faintly tinged with green from 

 apex to vein 3 ; a faint discoidal bar and curved postmedial line ; 

 the underside with the discoidal bar and postmedial line more 

 distinct, the latter waved and with a slight difiused line beyond 

 it fi-om posta to discal fold. 



Hah. iSuKiNAM ; Brazil, Rio Janeiro (^E. Wilson), 1 c? . Exj). 

 32 millim. 



Genus CHYTONIX. > 



Type. 



Chjtonix, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 66 (1874)... palliatricula. 



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

 vertex of head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna? of male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly 

 with rough scales, the prothorax with spreading crest, the metathorax with 



