DASYSPHINX — GYMNELIA. 189 



black with some blue-green pile ; black fasciae on costa and inner 

 margin ; a discoidal black bar conjoined to costal fascia. Hind 

 wing hyaline, the veins and margins black ; the basal area and a 

 patch at tornus black ; the inner area white. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogota, 1 $ . Exp. 72 millim. Typef in Coll. 

 Eothschild. 



Genus GYMNELIA. 



Type. 



(7?/?n??e//a, Wlk. i. 152(1^52) gemmijera. 



Andrenimorplut, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 382 



(1876) xanfhoqasfra. 



Enioche, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 34 (1896) pitth'id. 



Sansaptera, Schaus, J. N. York Ent. Soc. iv. p. 132 (1896)... cocho. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching vertex 

 of head, the 3rd short ; antennas bipeetinate with moderate branches, shorter 

 in female ; thorax woolly above ; tibiae with the spurs short ; abdomen of 

 male witii fan-shaped ventral valve covering the basal segments. Fore wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 

 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with tlie discocellulars angled ; veins 

 2 and 4 stalked, 3 and 5 absent, or 3 given off just before margin ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle. 



Sect. I. (E?iioc7ie). Hind wing of male reduced to a small triangular rudiment. 



A. Fore coxse white pitthea. 



B. Fore CO xa3 black cocho. 



* 386. Gymnelia pitthea. 



Enioclie pittlm, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 34 (1896). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; palpi in front and patches 



on tegulae, metathorax, and fore 

 coxae at sides blue ; frons whitish ; 

 coxae white ; abdomen with 

 dorsal, subdorsal, and sublateral 

 series of blue spots. Pore wing 

 hyaline, the veins, and margins 

 broadly, black ; the basal area 

 Yia, 89. black with blue point ; the ter- 



Gymneliajntthea, (^ . \. minal band expanding towards 



apex ; a discoidal black bar. 

 Hind wing black, with subcostal blue patch on underside. 

 Hah. Peru. Exjj. 34 millim. Typef in Coll. Druce. 



387. Gymnelia cocho. (Plate YII. fig. 6.) 

 Sa7isaptera cocho, Schaus, J. N. York Ent. Soc. iv. p. 132 (1896). 



S. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; frons blue, with lateral 

 white marks ; tegula? and patagia with white points ; fore coxa3 at 

 sides and tibiae in front marked with blue ; hind coxae with white 

 and yellowish patches ; abdomen with dorsal, subdorsal, and sub- 



