riKENICOPKOCTA. 199' 



409. Phoenicoprocta astrifera. 



Hyela astrifera, Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 38, pi. 17. f. 2 (1877); Kirby, Cat, 

 Het. p. 150. 



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

 frons, vertex of head, and thorax with patches of blue ; tegulse 

 blue tipped with orange ; patagia fringed with orange ; coxje 

 crimson, fore coxae white in front ; mid and hind tarsi whitish ; 

 abdomen with dorsal and lateral blue spots on 1st segment and 

 slight dorsal spots on the following segments ; subdorsal crimson 

 spots on first four segments ; the ventral valve tipped with crimson ; 

 the tufts on terminal segment crimson ; wings hyaline, the veins 

 and margins black. Fore wing with black discocellular spot ; the 

 inner area black ; the terminal band expanding to apex and below 

 vein 2. Hind wing with the terminal band expanding to apex and 

 slightly below vein 2. 



Hah. Amazons, Braga, Rio Javary, (Traill), 1 cj" type. E.vj). 30 

 millim. 



410. Phoenicoprocta eximia. (Plate VII. fig. 15.) 



Glaucopis eximia, Herr.-Schaff. Corresp.-Blatt. Eegensb. xx. p. 115 (186()) ; 

 Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 144. 



2 . Black ; head, thorax, and abdomen largely suffused with 

 metallic blue ; tegulae and patagia orange ; abdomen with two 

 dorsal crimson points on 1st segment, the four medial segments 

 with sublateral white points. Fore wing irrorated with metallic 

 blue ; an elliptical hyaline spot below base of cell ; an elongate 

 quadrate patch in cell, and elongate patches below middle of cell 

 and vein 2 and between veins 2 and 7. Hind wing hyaline, the 

 veins and margins black, the terminal band expanding towards 

 apex and tornus. Underside of both wings with patches of metallic 

 blue. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the discoidal black patch extending nearly 

 to vein 2. — Porto Rico. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing witli the discoidal patch conjoined to the fascia 

 on inner margin, the byaline patches all reduced. — 8ta. Cruz. 



Hab. CuBv; Porto Rico ; 8ta. Cruz, 1 $. E.vp. 34 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Staudinger. 



411. Phoenicoprocta thera. 



Dycladia thera, Druce, A, M. N. H. ((>) iv. p. 85 (1889); id. Biol. Oentr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 347, pi. 71. f. 26 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 144. 



J . Black ; antennae white towards tips ; frons and tegula? 

 metallic blue ; patagia with small orange spots ; fore coxae and 

 base of femora crimson ; abdomen with small subdorsal orange 

 spots on 1st segment ; lateral and dorsal series of metallic blue 

 spots ; the ventral surface, except the valve and anal tuft, crimson » 

 Fore wing with two hyaline streaks in end of cell, two below the 

 end, and four beyond the end. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and 



