CTENUCHA. EPECTAPTEEA. 531 



*i:73. Ctenucha clavia. (Plate XVII. fig. 27.) 



Hoplarctia clavia, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 383 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 270. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen metallic blue-green, clothed with 

 long sparse black hair. Fore wing dull black, with yellowish-white 

 fascia from base through the cell to termen ; a narrow fascia on 

 inner margin not reaching base ; cilia white from vein 3 to tornus. 

 Hind wing j^ellowish white, the inner and terminal areas fuscous, 

 the latter expanding to lower angle of cell ; cilia whitish between 

 veins 3 and 1. 



Hah. EcuADOE. Type in Coll. Druce. Exii. 40 millim. 



Genus DAHANA. ' 



Type. 



Dahana, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 175 (1875) atri^ennis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, downcurved, extending about the 

 length of head ; antennae bipectinate, with long branches; tibia with the spurs 

 moderate ; abdomen of male with lateral tubercles on 1st segment, open below. 

 Fore wing long and rather narrow ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from 

 angle; 6 from upper angle; 7,8,9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell very loug ; vein 3 from towards angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 from 

 before upper angle ; both wings with the termen excised above tornus. 



1174. Dahana atripennis. 



Dahana atripe.nnis, Crote, Can. Eut. vii. p. 175 (1875) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 123. 



Head and thorax black-brown, shot with metallic blue; the base 

 of palpi, vertex of head, and behind the eyes orange ; patagia edged 



Fig. 279. — Dahana atripennis, (^ . \. - 



with orange in front ; abdomen orange, with large lateral metallic 

 blue patches ; the ventral surface black. Fore wing black-brown 

 slightly suffused with ferruginous ; an ochreous streak below vein 2 

 towards termen. Hind wing black, shot with brilliant metallic blue. 

 Hah. Floeida, 1 J , 2 5 , Grote Coll., type. Exp. 42 millim. 



Genus EPECTAPTERA, nov. 



Type, E. laudabilis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head ; 

 antennas of male bipectmate, with moderate branches ; tibias with the spurs 

 minute. Fore wing with the apex produced and the outer margin very oblique ; 

 vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 

 10 stalked ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with the cell long ; vein 2 from long before 

 angle ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Fore wing with discoidal orange spot discosticta. 



B, Fore wing without discoidal oi-ange spot landabilis. 



2 M 2 



