106 



AECTIAD^. 



Sect. I. [Sychesia). Antennae of male with long branches ; hiud wing with 

 vein 8 absent. 



1376. Elysius dryas. 



Bomhyx dryas, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 70. C (1775) ; Kirbj, Cat. Het. 



p. 206. 

 Halesidota basipennis, Wlk. vii. 1707 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 212. 

 Sychesia fimbria. Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 654, pi. ix. 



f. 22 (1877) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 94 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 206. 

 Phcsgoptera subtilis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1878, p. 51. 



Dark brown ; back of head with two orange points ; pectus and 

 coxae with orange patches ; abdomen orange above, with four sub- 

 dorsal black spots on terminal segments, the terminal segment and 

 ventral surface dark brown. Pore wing irrorated with yellowish- 

 white scales, more prominent on nervures ; a whitish spot on angle 

 of discocellulars. Hind wing pale orange, deeper on inner area ; 

 the apical area broadly brown, tapering to tornus. 



Fig. I'd.— Elysius dryas, ^ ■ 



Hah. W. Indies ; Guatemala (CTiamjjion, Rogers) ; Costa Eica 

 (Underiuood), Godman-^alvin Coll. ; Ectjadoe ; Sueinam ; Amazons, 

 Rio Sapo (Trail), type subtilis, Para (Bates), type basipennis in 

 Mus. Oxon. ; Bolivia, Songo, Suapi. B.vj>. 44-54 millim. Type t 

 fimbria in Coll. Staudinger. 



Subsp. 1 . The yellow on neck, coxae, base of abdomen, and hind 

 wing replaced by pale crimson. 



Eab. Beazil, Rio Grande do Sul (Mabilde), 1 $ . 



Sect. II. Antennas of male with shorter branches ; hind wing with 

 present as a spur or reaching costa. 



vein 8 



A. {Ovythes). Hind wing of male with the inner area dilated, 

 the tornus somewhat lobed. 



a. Fore wing with the costa pale 

 h. Fore wing uniform blackish .. 



pallidkosia. 

 carbonaria. 



