50 CATALOGUE OF 



Male and female. Purple. Head blue, silvery in front, with 

 luteous hairs behind. Palpi yellow, porrect, hardly pilose ; third 

 joint about half the length of the second. Antennae nearly twice 

 the length of the thorax, tawny beneath, except towards the tips, 

 where they are slightly thickened. Thorax blue in front and 

 on each side. Pectus silvery. Hind borders of the abdominal seg- 

 ments yellow ; apical tuft luteous, with a few brown hairs. Legs 

 luteous; coxse and femora yellowish. Wings limpid, with gilded 

 and rather long cilise. Fore wings purple along the costa, and 

 with a purple discal band which has a gilded border ; tips gilded in 

 the male. Length of the body 3^ lines : of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



88. jEgeeia BhyssjEfokmis. 



Fcem. Cyaneo-viridis ; caput cupreum, apud oculos album ; palpi 

 albidi, apice nigricantes ; thorax flavo bivittatus ; abdomen 

 subtus album, segmenta dorsalia albo marginata ; fasciculus 

 apicalis pilis nonnullis lateralibus testaceis ; pedes albo fas- 

 ciati ; alee limpidce, anticce costa apice fasciaque discali pur- 

 purascentibus. Mas.? — Cy aneo -nigra ; palpi supra nigri ; 

 antenna filiformes, subtus pubescentes ; alee anticce apice 

 opaca latiuscula. 



Female. Bluish green. Head mostly cupreous, white on each 

 side in front and with white hairs behind. Palpi whitish, blackish 

 towards the tips, hardly pilose. Antennas very much longer than 

 the thorax, hardly thickened towards the tips. Thorax with a yel- 

 lowish stripe on each side. Abdomen with a white band on 

 the hind border of each segment; under side mostly white; apical 

 tuft with some testaceous hairs on each side. Legs with white 

 bands. Wings limpid. Fore wings with the costa, the tips, 

 and the usual band purplish. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the 

 wings 8 lines. Male P — Bluish black. Palpi black above. An- 

 tenna? filiform, simple, pubescent beneath. Apical tuft of the 

 abdomen with fewer pale hairs than in the female. Fore wings 

 with a broader opaque part at the tips. 



a, b. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



