PHASIS. LONGICELLA; 661 



*223. Phasis mardava. (Plate LIV. fig. 10.) 

 Thasis mardava, Druce, A. M. N. 11. (6) xx. p. iiOO (181)7). 



$ . Black-browD. Fore wing with slightly irregularly pale 

 yellow band from just below middle of costa to below vein 2 above 

 torniis, incurved below costa. 



Hah. Amazons, liio Napo (Whitely), typef $ in Coll. Druce. 

 Exj). 48 millim. 



Genus LONGICELLA. ^ 



Type. 



Longicella, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii, p. 51 (1896) mollis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint moderately fiinged 

 with hair in front, the 3rd long, naked, porreet ; frons with rounded prominence ; 

 antennie nearly simple, slightly dilated towards extremity ; tibias and abdomen 

 nearly smoothly scaled ; male with the claspers large, lateral tufts of long huir 

 from 2nd segment. Fore wing with vein '6 from well before angle of cell ; 5 

 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell long; vein 3 from well 

 before angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars , (), 7 from upper angle. 



A. Wings blue with black markings mollis. 



B. Wings black with white spots luctifera. 



224. Longicella mollis. 



Eiisemia m,oUis, Wlk. vii. 1774 (1856) ; Pag. Jahrb. Nass. Ver. sxxviii. 

 p. 8, pi. 2. f. 1 (1885) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 31. 



Head and thorax black ; 1st joint of palpi, the 2nd joint in front, 

 a ring round frons, a spot on vertex, and a rim behind ej^es yellowish 

 white ; tegulae and patagia edged with yellowish-white hair ; pectus 

 with some white hair ; coxae orange ; legs striped with orange ; 

 abdomen black, the first three or four segments dorsally banded 

 with bluish white, and the last four or five with orange, the 



Fig. 294. — Longicella mollis, (^ . \. 



ventral surface orange. Fore wing silvery-greenish, or purplish 

 blue irrorated with black ; an oblique irregularly waved black 

 line, expanding into patches below the cell and vein 1 ; a large 

 round black spot in middle of cell with silvery centre, conjoined or 

 nearly conjoined to a similar spec below base of vein 1, often 

 with silvery centre ; a large black ppot in and beyond end of cell 



