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404. Phoenicoprocta vacillans. (Plate VII. fig. 11.) 



Eimomia vacillans, Wlk. vii. 1017 (1856); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 150. 



(5 . Black : metallic blue patches on frons, vertex of head, 

 tegulge, patagia, and thorax ; fore coxae white and crimson ; abdomen 

 with metallic blue dorsal and subdorsal spots on 1st segment, 

 and dorsal and lateral series of silvery blue spots, the tufts on 

 terminal segment crimson, the ventral valve with white patch; 

 wings hyaline, the veins and margins rather broadly black. Fore 

 wing with discocellular spot ; the terminal band expanding to 

 costa. 



Ab. 1. Abdomen with the terminal three or four segments 

 crimson. 



Hab. Colombia, Bogota {BacTcley) ; Brazil, Sao Paulo, type, 

 St. Catharina, 1 <S var. Exp. 34 millim. 



405. Phoenicoprocta haemorrhoidalis. (Plate VII. fig. 14.) 



Sesia hcemorrhoidalis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 549 (1775); Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 150. 



Glaucopis frontalis, Wlk. i. 188 (1854). 



Black ; frons and vertex of head metallic blue ; abdomen with 

 the anal tuft tinged with red ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins 

 rather broadly grey-black. Fore wing witli black discocellular spot ; 

 the terminal band expanding to apex. 



Hah. Brazil, 1 J, ty^Q frontalis. Exp. 38 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing with the discocellulars angled above median nervure 

 fore wing with vein 3 from angle of cell. 



A. Patagia crimson sanguinea. 



B. Patagia black, streaked with orange. 



a. Thorax orange lydia. 



b. Thorax black. 



a^. Abdomen with the ventral surface crimson ; a com- 

 plete subdorsal series of crimson spots riibiventtr , 



b^. Abdomen with the ventral surface black; the sub- 

 dorsal crimson spots on 1st four segments only ... astrifera. 



C. Patagia orange eximia. 



D. Patagia black with orange point thera. 



E. Patagia entirely black-brown, 



a. Abdomen orange and crimson, with segmental black 



lines mexicana. 



b. Abdomen black, with crimson lateral spots teda. 



406. Phoenicoprocta sanguinea. 



Glaucopis sanguinea, Wlk. i. 172 (1854) ; Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 37, pi. 11 

 f. 13 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 149. 



^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; antennae white at tips ; 

 frons and vertex of head metallic blue ; tegula? blue tipped with 

 crimson ; coxae crimson, fore coxse white above ; patagia crimson ; 

 abdomen with maculate subdorsal crimson bands ; metallic blue 

 dorsal and subdorsal spots on 1st segment, and dorsal and subdorsal 



