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angle. Hind wings bright yellow, with a broad black border. 

 Length of the bod}' 9 — 10 lines; of the wings 24 — 28 lines. 



a, b. Bogota, New Grenada. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 

 e. New Grenada. 



Genus CHRYSAUGE. 

 Chrysauge tripars. 



Foem. Flava ; corpus et pedes saturate viridia ; palpi porrecti, 

 caput non super antes , articulo 3o lanceolato ; alee basi virides, 

 spatio exterior e nigro-purpureo. 



Female. Yellow. Body and legs dark metallic-green. Palpi 

 porrect, not extending to the front of the head ; third joint lauceo- 

 late, about half the length of the second. Wings dark green at the 

 base; exterior part blackish purple; this hue occupying full half 

 the surface of the fore wings and full one-third of the surface of the 

 hind wings. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



In Mr. Norris' collection. f* w gi^t v 



jpl*4v*v$ 1 Chrysauge detracta. 



Mas. Sordide lutea ; caput f us cum ; palpi porrecti, supra fusci, 

 caput non super antes ; antenna pubescentes ; abdomen supra 

 fuscum ; alee anticce macula apud marginem interiorem, litura 

 discali fasciaque exteriore poslice dilatata fuscis; posticce 

 lutece, plaga apud angulum interior em fusca. 



Male. Dingy luteous. Head brown. Palpi porrect, stout, 

 brown above and towards the tips, not extending beyond the head; 

 third joint very short. Antennae brown, pubescent. Abdomen brown 

 above. Fore legs mostly brown. Fore wings with a brown spot on 

 *the interior border near the base, with a small transverse brown 

 mark in the disk, and with an exterior brown band, which is much 

 dilated towards the interior angle. Hind wings bright luteous, with 

 a brown patch about the interior angle. Length of the body 5 lines ; 

 of the wings 15 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Genus FLAVINIA. 



H^xXk*. FLAVINIA LiETA. 



Mas. Atra ; caput apud oculos subtusque fiavum ; palpi porrecti, 

 caput superantes, articulo 3o brevissimo ; antennce subpecli- 

 nata ; thorax fiavo trivittatus ; pectus et pedes subtus albida, 



