108 AECTIAD^. 



tP. Abdomen uniform orange. 



d\ Fore wing orange with brown mottling and 



lines sebncs. 



h^. Fore wing brown with darker mottling proha. 



bK AbdomeTi with large dorsal blackish patch. 



a'^. Abdomen with the extremity black ,,... atrata. 



b'^. Abdomen with the extremity orange, 

 a^. Abdomen with black bands, 



a*. Abdomen with the black patch extending to 



near extremity chimara. 



b^. Abdomen with the black patch confined to , 



basal segment vmiber. 



b^. Abdomen with lateral series of black spots. 



a^. Vertex of head white immanis. 



6*. Vertex of head dark. 



a^. Abdomen with dorsal black spots on 



terminal segments disciplaga. 



b'\ Abdomen without dorsal spots, the patch 



at base small atriceps. 



c. Abdomen fuscous brown. 



a^. Fore wing with pale bands melanoplaga. 



b\ Fore wing uniform dark brown hicolor. 



1379. Elysiiiis superba. 



Phcpcfopfera superba, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 95, pi. 10. f. 2 

 (1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 214. 



Brown-pink ; palpi, frons, and antennae black ; tegulas and 

 patagia with black points ; metathorax and fore coxae with black 

 spots, the femora pink above, tibiae and tarsi blackish ; abdomen 

 pink with dorsal black bands, the hair at base brown-pink, two 

 lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface brown. Pore wing 

 brown-pink, with black j)atch at base of eosta ; antemedial, medial, 

 and postmedial brown bands with rather sinuous edges ; a sub- 

 terminal band, sending a broad fork to termen from above vein 4 

 and often interrupted below that point ; an apical patch narrowing 

 to the fork from subterminal band. Hind wing pale brownish 

 semihyaline, more thickly scaled towards margins. 



Eah. Mexico, Jalapa (Trvjilh), 2 2 ; Costa Bica (Underwood), 

 1 6,22 ; Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), 1 S type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Eocp. 86 millim. 



1380. Elysius francki. (Plate XXXYII. fig. 10.) 



Maz(Bras francJd, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent, Soc. iv. p. 141 (1896). 



(5 . Head and tegulae purplish crimson ; 3rd joint of palpi, 

 antennae, aud spots on tegulae black ; thorax purple-brown mixed 

 with crimson ; tibiae and tarsi black ; abdomen orange, clothed with 

 crimson hair at base ; large dorsal and lateral series of black spots, 

 the ventral surface brown. Fore wing purple-brown with slight 

 pale striae; some crimson at base of inner area. Hind wing 

 semihyaline, sparsely clothed with crimson scales, the inner area 

 thickly clothed with crimson hair ; cilia fuscous at apex. 



Bah. Beazil, Castro Paraiia, 1 (j" , 8ao Paulo (Jones), type t 6 

 in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 64 millim. 



