IXYLASIA. 



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Sect, I. Abdomen of male with lateral tufts of long bair from base. 



947. Ixylasia trogonoides. 



Aclytia trogonoides, Wlk. xxxi. 101 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. ITet. p. 157. 



cJ. Black ; antennae white at tips ; palpi at base, back of head, 

 tegulae, shoulders, patagia, aud coxa^ with white points ; abdomen 

 with the tufts of hair brown, ill-defined metallic greenish lateral 



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■ Ixylasia trogonoides, (^ . \. 



bands, the 2tid segment with lateral white spots and a snblateral 

 series of spots. Fore wing with white point at base ; diffused 

 streaks of metallic green scales on basal area, extending on costal 

 area to just beyond middle. Hind wing hyaline, with the veins and 

 a broad terminal band black, indented below vein 5 and above 

 tornus. 



Hah. Beazil, 1 (5 type. E:cp. 56 millim. 



Sect. II. Abdomen of male without lateral tufts of long hair from base. 



* 948. Ixylasia schausi. 



Eupyra sckausi, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het., ii. p. 334, pi. 70. f. 21 (1896). 



(S . Black ; back of head, tegula3, patagia, shoulders, and meso- 

 and metathorax with bluish-white points ; coxae white ; abdomen 

 with dorsal white point on 1st segment, subdorsal series of metallic 

 green patches, lateral white spots on 2nd and 3rd segments and 

 a sublateral series. Fore wing with two white points at base ; 



Fig. 230. — Ixylasia schausi, c? , }. 



some metallic green suffusion on medial area and towards tornus ; 

 a hyaline spot below middle of cell, a spot in upper end of cell, and 

 point at origin of vein 2 ; a series of elongate patches beyond the 



