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side, slightly bent outwards below vein 7, oblique to vein 5, then 

 slightly dentate, inwardly oblique to below vein 3 and erect to inner 

 margin ; subterminal line green and obliquely curved from costa to 

 below vein 6, a wedge-shaped green patch on middle of termen and 

 a patch with a brown mark on it towards tornus ; a terminal waved 

 black line and a small spot below vein 5 ; cilia fuscous brown with 

 a slight green line at base. Hind wing deep cupreous red with a 

 dark terminal hand wide at apex, narrowing to tornus, leaving 

 some irregular red marks on termen between veins 6 and 2 ; cilia 

 red-brown with a slight pale line at base. Underside of fore wdag 

 red suffused with fuscous except on inner area, some whitish marks 

 on termen and a larger patch below A^ein 5 ; hind wing red with 

 darker suffusion on terminal half of costal area and terminal area, 

 with some pale marks on middle of termen. 



2 . Pore wing with the basal and costal areas and the inner half 

 of postmedial area more or less irrorated with brownish- while 

 scales. 



Hah. St. Lucia (Coivie), 2 c? , 1 $ type; Guadaloupe, 1 $. 

 Ea;j). 44-46 millim. 



3582. Neophaenis psittacea. (Plate CXXIII. fig. 17.) 



Polyphmnis psiUacea, Schaus, J. N.Y. Eiit, Soc. vi. p. 110 (1898) ; Druce, 

 Eiol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 667. 



2 . Head and thorax bright emerald-green mixed with vrhite 

 and some black ; palpi white irrorated with black and with black 

 streak on 2nd joint ; Irons white with two black lateral bars ; 

 tegulse witli black medial line ; patagia edged with black at base ; 

 pectus and legs white tinged with brown, the fore tibiae and tarsi 

 banded black and white and the tibia fringed with green ; abdomen 

 pale reddish brown, the base green with the crests black mixed with 

 silvery scales, the ventral surface white. Fore wing bright emerald- 

 green slightly irroi ated with black, the costal edge white ; subbasal 

 line black, double ab costa, with black streak before it on subcostal 

 nervure, from costa to submedian fold, a black spot beyond it above 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line double, incurved in cell, then excurved ; 

 claviform defined by diffused black at extremity ; orbicular defined 

 by black at sides only and with some white on outer edge ; reniform 

 large, incompletely defined hj black and its centre defined by dif- 

 fused black, extending to well below cell, with black streak from it 

 to orbicular above median nervure and white striga at its lower 

 extremity vpith black patch beyond it ; a minutely waved line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, bent 

 outwards and interrupted below costa, then minutely waved, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some black points with white 

 streaks between them beyond it on costa ; an irregular diffused 

 subterminal black line, angled inwards to postmedial line at discal 

 fold and incurved below vein 2, with minute white streaks beyond 

 it on the veins ; some black suffusion at apex and a- spot before 

 termen above vein .1 ; a waved black terminal line and a spot below 



