LYMIRE. 415 



*921. Lymire strigivenia. (Plate XIV. fig. 17.) 



Lymire strigivenia, Druce, ^. M. N. II. (7) i. p. 407 (1898), 



S . Dark brown ; frons at sides, pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown, the veins and 

 streaks in discoidal and submcdian folds black-brown. Hind wing 

 semihyaline, with clearer hyaline fascia from base above and below 

 median nervure to termen ; the costa and termen brown ; the inner 

 area brown, leaving slight hyaline streaks. 



Hah, Cayenne, 1 S type t in Mus. Oxon. Ed^p. 28 millim. 



1)22. Lymire melanocephala. (Plate XIV. fig. 19.) 

 Lijmire mclanocepJiala, Wlk. ii. 490 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 201. 



5 . Head black ; palpi yellow in front ; tegulse, shoulders, 

 throat, and basal parts of legs bright yellow, the rest of thorax 

 dove-grey ; abdomen blue-black, purplish grey towards base, the 

 extremity and ventral surface yellow. Fore wing dove-grey, 

 the costa whitish. Hind wing semihyaline, the veins and costal 

 and terminal areas suffused with pale brown. 



Hah. Jamaica, (Gosse) 1 2 typs? (Martin) 1 J . E:qy. 48 millim. 



923. Lymire edwardsi. (Plate XIV. fig. 18.) 



Scepsis edwardsi, Groto, Pap. i. p. 4 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat, Het. p, 175. 



(5 . Pale purplish grey, frons and antennae bluish ; palpi, vertex 

 of head, neck, and throat orange ; abdomen suffused with blue- 

 green towards extremity, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing 

 with the costa whitish. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, costal area, 

 and termen brownish. 



Hah. Florida, Grote Coll., 2 J , type. Ea'2). 40 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Insect-Life, ii. p. 361. 



Eggs smooth, hemispherical, base flatfish. 



Larva (mature). Head brownish red, the triangular plate, mouth, 

 and palpi white, with a black band above the plate ; jaws and eyes 

 black ; cervical spot blackish, bisected ; 1st somite, which is much 

 contracted, with 2 small warts at spiracle ; somites 4-11 with a 

 series of \^-arts on subdorsal space anteriorly ; subdorsal, supra- 

 stigmatic, substigmatic, and two subventral series, the upper small ; 

 somites 2, 3 with only one subventral series ; somite 12 with the 

 upper warts fewer and with a row of small warts on anal plate. 

 Body whitish, with blackish shade on dorsum ; subdorsal and 

 traces of stigmatic yellowish bands, the former with faint orange 

 patch above it on somites 4 to 9 and 11 ; somite 3 with pinkish- 

 white band with dark anterior edge across subdorsal space pos- 

 teriorly ; somite 4, from 1st row of warts arise small pencils of 

 brownish-red plumed hairs, and sometimes smaller pencils from 

 the 2nd row ; the other warts with yellow bristles, some over- 



