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posticas non superans, fascicalo apicali nullo. Pedes lgeves, graciles ; 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus qaatuor minimis. Alae auticae longissimae, 

 apice rotundatae, margine exteriore arcuato pevobliquo. 



Male and female. Allied to Nelo. Body smooth, slender. Pro- 

 boscis short, slender. Palpi slender, smooth, porrect, hardly ex- 

 tending beyond the head ; third joint conical, very minute. Antennae 

 of the male slightly pectinated, of the female smooth. Abdomen 

 not extending beyond the hind wings, with no apical tuft. Legs 

 smooth, slender; hind tibiae with four rudimentary spurs. Fore 

 wings very long, rounded at the tips, rather narrower in the male 

 than in the female ; exterior border forming a continuous curved 

 line with the interior border. 



Darna colorata. 



Mas et foem. Saturate cyaneo-viridis ; aim anticce atrce, triente 

 basali saturate cyaneo-viridi, plaga exteriore maxima Icete 

 ochracea; posticce atro latissime marginatce. 



Male and female. Deep bluish green. Palpi and antennae 

 black. Fore wings deep black ; basal space to full one-third of the 

 length, except along the costa deep bluish green ; a very large exte- 

 rior bright luteous patch, which extends almost to the costa but ends 

 at some little distance from the exterior border. Hind wings very 

 broadly bordered with deep black. Length of the body 5 — 6 lines ; 

 of the wings 20 — 22 lines. 



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



Genus DEVARA. 



Devara?erigida, 



Mas. Cupreo-fusca ; caput subtus album ; palpi caput superantes, 

 subtus albi, articulo So lanceolato ; thorax albo bivittatus, 

 luteo biguttatus ; abdomen subtus pectusque alba ; alee alba, 

 semihyalince, cupreo-fusco marginatce ; anticce dimidio exte- 

 riore cupreo-fusco strigam albam semihyalinam includente. 



Female. Cupreous-brown. Head white beneath and on each 

 side above. Palpi white beneath, extending somewhat beyond the 

 head ; third joint lanceolate, much shorter than the second. Thorax 

 with two white stripes, and with a luteous dot on each side at the 

 base of the fore wing. Pectus, under side of the abdomen and legs 

 beneath white. Wings white, semihyaline, with a cupreous-brown 

 border. Fore wings with the cupreous-brown part occupying about 



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