PARASTATIA. AGYRTA. 4fj9 



stripes on mid and hind femora white ; thorax and abdomen suffused 

 with blue, the latter with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of 



white spots, the anal tufts 

 crimson. .Fore wing with 

 whitish-blue streak below 

 base of median neivure ; a 

 large medial hyaline patch 

 formed by wedge-shaped 

 spots in cell, above base of 

 vein 2, and below cell and 

 Fig. 'im.—ParastaHa parnansia, S. \. ^'^i^ 2; a postmedial patch 



with curved edges between 

 veins 3 and 7. Hind wing hyaline, with the veins and margins 

 black ; a black patch at base of cell ; the terminal band broad, 

 slightly shot with blue, expanding towards apex, irregularly dentate 

 towards tornus, and emitting a streak along vein 1. Underside with 

 some white on median nervure of fore wing near base and on base 

 of costa of hind wing. 



Hah. Surinam, 1 S typef in Coll. Staudinger. Exy. 40 millim. 



Genus AGYRTA. 



Type. 



Agi/rta,I{.\\hn.Yk^rz.]}. 177(1827) mtxo. 



Corydalla, Wlk. vii. 1650 (1857) cryytoleuca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head ; antennai 

 bipectinate, with moderate branches dilated at extremity and ending in a bristle ; 

 tibiae with the spurs moderate. Fore wing broad ; vein 5 from well before 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 separate at origin ; 6 from beljw upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 

 stalked; 7 from long before 9 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing witli the cell long ; 

 vein 3 from near angle; 4, 5 separate at origin or from a point ; 7 from just 

 before upper angle. 



A. Fore wing with hyaline patch above base of vein 2. 



a. Fore wing with oblicpie subapical hyaline band. 

 a}. Hind wing with hyaline streak on inner area. 



d^. Fore wing with the hyaline fascia in submedian inter- 

 space arising near base dux, 



h". Fore wing with the hyaline fascia iu submecliaa inter- 

 space arising near origin of vein 2 mlcilia. 



b^. Hind wing without hyaline streak on inner area. 



a^. Vertex of head crimson chena. 



\p-. Neck only crimson jiaoltiiicta. 



c^. Fore wing with no hyaline fascia in submedian interspace ; 



vertex of head crimson auxo. 



b. Kore wing without subapical band vionoplaga. 



B. Fore wing without hyaline patch above base of vein 2. 



a. Fore wing without diffused white scales. 



a^. Fore wing with the white patch beyond cell entire pandemia. 



b^. Fore wing with the white patch beyond cell broken up 



into two spots porphyria. 



b. Fore wing with diffused white scales albispuri>a. 



1038. Agyrta dux. 



Dioptis dux, Wlk. ii. 327 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 121. 



Agyrta cestiva, Eutl. Cist. Ent. li. p. 113 (1876) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 121. 



