1868 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus HISTICEA, C. L H. i.216. 

 EJlSTKEA Pal LIN a. 



Mas. Nigra, crassa; pafpi erecti, verticem vix superantes, articulo 

 3o lanceolate ; antenna nata; thorax cyaneo bimacu- 



latus ; abdominis latent naculata; aire anticce maculis 



duabus basalibui duabti 



cineis, fascia exteriore obliqua ( vt'usim i pallide ochraeea ; . 

 liccB pun v to antemedio alba elongate, 



Male. Black, wry stout. Palpi erect, hardly rising higher 

 than the vertex; third joint lanceolate, full halt* the length of the 

 second. Antenna) slightly pectinated. Thorax with a brilliant blue 

 spot on each side in front A riding much beyond the 



hind wings; a row of brilliant blue spots along e 

 beneath. Fore wings rouude I al the lips; two brilliant blue spots 

 at the base and two at the ends of the areolet ; three crimso 

 one subcostal, near the base; second and third coorerf m the 



antetnedial disk towards the hind end ol the exterior border | an ex- 

 terior oblique very broad paii as band. Hind wings with 



a much elongated white point in tin- disk before the middle. Lei 

 of the body 10 lines; of the wings 3? lines. 



Closely allied to J J. Pi . but differing in the middle 



oblique streak of the lore wings and in baring no crimson streak on 

 the hmd wings. 



a. St. Paul, Brazil. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Genus ANDROCHABTA. 

 Androcharta, Feld. Wien. Ent. Mon. vi. '231. 



And liociiA rta Mbo nes. 

 E achromia Meoues, C. L. II. i. 2 J 4. 



Genus TIPULODES, C. L. H. i. 232. 



TlPULODKS OBSGUBA. 



obscura, Wlgn. Wien, Ent. Mon. iv. 40. 

 Guayaquil. 



