LOXOPHLEBIA. 20 



Sect, I. Abdomen of male with ventral valve covering basal seguients ; palpi 

 reaching just above vertex of head. 



A. Abdomen with lateral orange stripes. 



a. Fore wing with the veins beyond the cell orange. 



a}. Fore wing with the termen above fornus orange picta. 



¥. Fore wing with the termen wholly black. 



a^. Tegular and patagia crimson hroteas. 



b'^. TeguUc black ; patagia orange spleiidens, 



b. Fore wing with the veins beyond the cell not orange. 



a^. Thorax orange-red ; abdomen with lateral orange-red 



stripes, n ot reach ing extrem ity pyrgion, 



b^. Thorax and abdomen orange, with dorsal black stripe ... imitata. 

 c^. Thorax and abdomen black ; patagia fringed with orange ; 



abdomen with lateral orange stripes diaphana. 



B. Abdomen without orange lateral stripes. 



a. Abdomen with subdorsal orange-red spots on 3rd and 4th 



segments ci'ocata. 



b. Abdomen without subdorsal spots. 



OL^. Abdomen with the terminal segnnents black masa. 



b^. Abdomen with the terminal segments orange postjlavia. 



427. Loxophlebia picta. 



Glaucopis picta. VfWa.'iAlQ {1^6^) \ Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 32, pi. 11. f. 4: 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 145. 



Head black ; frons and tips of antenna) white ; thorax and abdo- 

 men reddish orauge to scarlet, with black dorsal stripe ; abdomen 

 with white marks on 1st segment on each side of dorsal stripe, and 

 blue spots on the dorsal stripe, the last two segments blue-black ; 

 wings hyaline. Fore wing with orange streaks on costa and inner 

 margin ; the veins black to end of cell, then yellow ; a discoidal black 

 lunule ; a large black apical patch and spot at tornus with yellow 

 on the termen between them. Hind wing with the costa white ; 

 the veins yellow; a black spot in cell; the inner margin and apical 

 area black. 



Hah. Amazons, Para, Santarem {Bates), 1 J , 2 2 , type. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



*428. Loxophlebia broteas. (Plate VII. fig. 19.) 

 Dycladia broteas, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 276. 



J . Head black ; antennae at tips and frons white ; proboscis and 

 palpi at base orange ; tegulae and patagia crimson ; thorax black, 

 with lateral crimson patches on metathorax : coxae, tibiae except at 

 base, and tarsi orange ; abdomen black, with subdorsal white spots 

 on 1st segment ; a series of conjoined lateral crimson patches not 

 reaching extremity ; the ventral valve orange ; wings hyaline, the 

 veins, and margins rather broadly, black. Fore wing with slight 

 orange streak below the costa ; the veins beyond the cell orange ; 

 the black on inner margin expanding at base ; the terminal band 

 expanding widely at tornus and on apical area. Hind wing with 

 the apical area black. 



Hah. Brazil, Santa Catharina. Exp. 24 millim. Type t in Coll. 

 Schaus. 



