SCIOPS yCHE. NA PATA. 



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897. Sciopsyche tropica. 



Euchromia tropica, Wlk. i, 236 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 174. 

 Sciopsyche cinerea, Butl. Jouru.Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 426 (1876) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p 174. 



Puscous black ; fore coxoc and pectus with patches of metallic 



green ; abdomen with 

 broad lateral metallic 

 green stripes and sub- 

 lateral series of white 

 points. Fore wing with 

 ^^^ the interspaces rather 



thinly scaled ; a metallic 

 Y\g.2\0.—Sciopscijhetropl<a, (S . \. green spot below base of 



median nervure. Hind 

 wing semihyaline, the veins and terminal area broadly and irregu- 

 larly suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. ? Honduras; Colojibia, Sta. Marta {Bouchard); Brazil, 

 type, Ega, Santarem (Bates)^ Espiritu Santo, type cinerea. Ecc]^: 

 36-40 millim. 



Genus NAPATA. 



Type. 



Napata, Wlk. i. 231 (1854) terminalis. 



Diahcena, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 4 (1874), non deser cincticollis. 



Metriophyla, Butl. 111. Hel. i. p. 43 (1877) albiplaga. 



Proboscis Avell developed ; palpi upturued ; antenuse bipectinate, with 

 moderate branches dilated at extremity ; tibite with the spurs moderate. Fore 

 wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind wing with the cell long ; veins 3, 4, 5 from close to 

 angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. Hind wing of male with the tornus truncate and fi-inged with long 

 hairs. 



898. Napata fenestrata. 



Lcemocliaris fenestrata, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 30 (1896). 



6 . Black-brown with an olive tinge ; neck with orange ring ; 

 shoulders striped with orange ; abdomen with orange lateral fasciae 



on 4th to 6th segments, on the last 

 two extending subdorsally ; the 

 ventral surface orange except ter- 

 minal segments. Eore wing with 

 olive streaks in iuterspaces of basal 

 3^ half ; a short hyaline streak below 



basal part of costa, and a vvedge- 

 j^jo. 211. shaped mark in end of cell; four 



Napaia fenestrata, c^ . \. small spots beyond the cell between 



veins 3 and 7, the two lower placed 



nearer termen. Hind wing with the basal half hyaline, with the veins 



black, the terminal area black ; the fringe of hair at tornus ochreous. 



Hab. Brazil, Casa Branca, 1 J 1 $ . E.vj). 24 millim. Typet in 



Coll. Druce. 



