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899. Napata walkeri. 



)ius walkeri, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) iv. p. 86 (1889) ; id. Biol. Oentr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 365, pi. 73. f. 21 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 197. 



Orange-yellow ; palpi banded black and white ; frons white ; 

 antennae black, the basal joint white ; legs striped black and white ; 

 abdomen with the anal segment striped and the ventral surface 

 banded black and white. Pore wing with black and white stripes 

 on terminal area, shorter towards torn us. 



Hah. Costa Eica {Underwood), 2 ^ 1 $ ; Panama, Taboga I. 

 {J. J. Walker), 1 $ , type, Godman-Salvia Coll. Exj). 36 millim. 



900. Napata splendida. 



Charidea splendida, Herr.-Schaff. Aiissereur. Schmett, f. 232 (1854) ; Kirbj, 



Cat. Het. p. 161. 

 Entomis eiici/ane, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 14 (1875), nee f. 16. 

 Sphinx argentiflua, Martin, Psyche, pi. 29. ff. 82, 83 ined. 



(5 . Black ; palpi in front, head, tegulae, patagia, thorax, and 

 legs with patches of metallic blue ; fore coxce white ; abdomen 

 suffused with blue and with dorsal and lateral series of blue spots, 

 the veutral surface with narrow white stripe. Pore wing with 

 short metallic blue streak below base of costa, and a streak above 

 A^ein 1 extending to middle ; an oblique bright crimson band from 

 subcostal nervure across end of cell to near tornus ; a short oblique 

 band across apical area from vein 8 to 5. Hind wing with diffused 

 metallic blue on median nervure and vein 1 ; a crimson spot beyond 

 lower angle of cell between veins 2 and 4. Underside of both 

 wings with the basal area shot with blue. 



Ab. 1. Eore wing with the band across apical area extending 

 nearly to termen at vein 3. 



Ab. 2. Hind wing with the subterminal crimson spot almost 

 obsolete above. 



Hah. Colombia ; Venezuela ; Cayenne, 1 S ; Brazil, Thereso- 

 polis, 2 S ; Bolivia, Songo, 1 $ . E.vp. 44 millim. Type f in 

 Coll. Staudinger. 



901. Napata eucyane. 



Cyanopcpla eucyane, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 16 (1874); Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 162. 



J . Black -brown ; head, tegulie, patagia, and thor-ax with patches 

 of metallic blue ; palpi in front, coxoe, and streaks on legs white ; 

 abdomen suffused with blue, with dorsal and lateral series of blue 

 spots and fine segmental rings ; the ventral surface with broad 

 white stripe. Fore wing with metallic blue streaks below basal 

 half of costa and from base of inner margin to above middle of 

 vein 1 ; an oblique crimson band from subcostal nervure across end 

 of cell to near tornus ; a short oblique band across apical area from 

 vein 8 to 5. Hind wing with large metallic blue patch on inner 



