102 AECTIADiE. 



Hah. Surinam ; Ecuador (Buclley) ; Bolivia, R. Songo (Gar- 

 lepp), 2 (S. E.vp. 34 millim. 



Genus TRICYPHA. 



Type. 



Tricypha, Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p, fi54 



(1877) furcata. 



Mcenoleneura, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 56 furcata. 



Bomanoffia, Heyl. C.E, Soc. Ent. Beige, xxviii, p. xciv (1884) ... imperialis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head, the 3rd moderate ; antenna of male with moderate branches, of female 

 with short branches ; tibiae with the spurs moderate ; abdomen dorsally clothed 

 with rough hair at base. Fore wing of female with vein 3 from before angle 

 of cell; 4, 5 shortly stalked; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 

 11 free; male with a large semicircular patch of thinly-scaled membrane in 

 and beyond the cell, the neuration greatly distorted ; veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 from above angle, anastomosing just before termen with 6 which is 

 strongly downcurved to meet it ; 7 from 6 ; 8, 9 stalked from 6 ; 10 from 

 angle of cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 6 shortlj 

 stalked ; 6, 7 coincident ; 8 from towards end of cell, 



A. Abdomen orange below imperialis. 



B. Abdomen grej -brown below furcata. 



1369. Tricypha imperialis. 



Eomanoffia imperialis, Heyl. O.R. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxviii. p. xcv (1884) ; 



id. Kom. Mem. ii. p. 173, pi. 9. f. 1 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 877. 

 Manoleneura anomala, Druce, Biol. Centr,-Am., Het. i. p. 13G, & ii. p. 402, 



nee Butl. 



S . Pale grey-brown ; basal joint of palpi, back of head, throat, 

 pectus, and coxae orange ; abdomen orange, the dorsal surface grey- 

 hrown, reduced to spots on terminal segments ending with the sub- 

 terminal one, lateral and ventral series of dark points. Fore wing 



6 



Fig. 77. — Tricypha imperialis, (^ . \. 



with obscure darker brown antemedial, medial, postmedial, and 

 subterminal bands from the thinly-scaled area to inner margin. 



$ . Fore wing with the bands extending to subscostal nervure. 



Hah. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 J; Panama, Chiriqui, 1 J, 

 Bugaba (Chamjnon), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll.; Amazons, gan- 

 tarem, Rio Negro, Thomar. Eo'j)., S 38, $ 44 millim. 



