CYANARCTIA, BELEIINIA. 207 



A. Pore wing with hyaline spots on medial area dam%. 



B. Fore wing with orange posttnedial band 7'iiscia. 



*1609. Cyanarctia dama. 



Eup?/ra dima, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 170 (1891) ; id. Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Ilet. ii. p. 334, pi. 70. f. 24. 



c^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; tegulae, patagia, pectus, 

 fore toxae, and femora with white spots ; abdomen with lateral 

 series of white points ; wings shot with bronze-green. Eore wing 

 with white point at base; two elongate hyaline spots in end of cell; 



Fig. 118. — Cyanarctia dama 



a rounded spot below middle of cell, and a rounded patch composed 

 of three spots beyond the cell between veins 4 and 7. Hind wing 

 with two hj'aline streaks in end of cell ; a rounded spot below 

 middle of cell, and two spots beyond the cell above veins 4 and 5. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba, Jalapa. Exp, 46 millim. Type in Coll. 

 Druce. 



*1610. Cyanarctia ruscia. (Plate XLII. fig. 14.) 



Eucyane ruscia, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xv. p. 47 (1895). 



2 . Black shot with blue. Fore wing with a slightly curved 

 orange band with rather irregular edge from costa just beyond 

 middle to inner margin near tornus. Hind wing with three sub- 

 terminal orange spots between veins 2 and 5 and traces of a spot 

 below vein 2. 



Hah. Bolivia {Garlepp)^ 1 $ type f in Coll. Druce. Evp. 54 

 millim. 



Genus BELEMNIA. 



Type. 



Beleninia,^W. i. 211 (1854) eryx. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, the 1st and 2nd joints 

 broadly scaled, the 3rd somewhat porrect and dilated ; antennre bi pectinate 

 in both sexes, the apical part serrate, the shaft dilated beyond middle, the 

 branches dilated at extremity ; tibise with the spurs short ; abdomen smoothly 

 scaled, with slight lateral tubercles on Ist segment. Fore wing long and narrow, 

 the costa arched towards apex, the termen obliquely rounded ; vein 3 from 

 towards angle of cell ; 4, 5 separate ; 6 from upper angle ; 10 shortly stalked 

 with 7, 8, 9 ; 11 curved. Hind wing with vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 

 3, 5 from angle, 4 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell, obso- 

 lescent towards costa. 



