ANTAXIA. PTYCHOTRICHOS. 



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black spots ; thorax orange ; tegulae and patagia banded with 

 black ; legs with black points ; abdomen orange above. Fore wing 

 with the veins slightly streaked with ochreous, the interspaces with 



fine black streaks inter- 

 rupted in many ])laces ; an 

 obscure subbasal orange 

 line ; a large black-edged 

 orange discoidal lunule; a 

 postmedial line highly ex- 

 curved beyond cell, then bent 

 inwards to near origin of 

 vein 2 ; a curved orange 

 fulvous subterminal band obsolete towards costa, and expanding 

 above vein 5 and towards tornus ; a terminal series of black lunulate 

 marks, the two below apex larger and conjoined to the streaks 

 above veins 5 and 6. Hind wing semihyaline, the inner area 

 clothed with orange hair. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo (Jones), 1 S I 2 - ^^W- ^^ millim. 



Fig. 262. — Antaxia ahdommalis, cj" 



Genus PTYCHOTRICHOS. 



Ptychutrichos, Scbaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 227 



Type. 



zeus. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned and reaching just above vertex of 

 head ; antennae of male bipectinate, with moderate branches dilated at ex- 

 tremity ; tibice with the spurs moderate ; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough 

 hair at base. Fore wing long and narrow, the termen very oblique; vein 3 

 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 stalked ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 

 stalked. Hind wing with the cell long ; vein 2 from well before angle ; 3 and 

 5 from angle ; 4 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; male with the tornus pro- 

 duced to a point, the inner area with a fold containing a tuft of long hair. 



1055. Ptychotrichos zeus. 



Ptychotrichos zeus, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 228. 



S . Head and thorax black -brown ; neck orange, fore coxae white, 

 base of femora and extremity of 1st tarsal joint with white points; 



f 



Fig 263. — Ptychotrichos zeus, (^ 



metathorax with orange point ; abdomen black, with large sub- 

 dorsal blue patches, slight traces of orange between some of the 

 segments, and ventral white bands on 3rd and 4th segments, followed 



