240 LEPIDOPTEEA HETER0CERA. 



Male. Deep black. Palpi short. Antennae pectinated, stout ; 

 branches short. Wings blackish, rather narrow; veins slender. 

 Fore wings black at the base and along the hind border, with a 

 grayish white slender irregular mark in front of each near the tip. 

 Transverse veinlets at the tip of the discal areolet forming an obtuse 

 angle ; discal fold appearing in the discal areolet and beyond it. 

 Abdomen fusiform. Legs slender; fore tibiae not dentate; hind 

 tibiae with no middle spurs, their hind spurs very minute. Allied to 

 Procris P Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



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



64. EUCHROMIA TENEBROSA. 



Fcem. Atra, gracilis ; antenna graciles, serrata, apice albce ; 

 pectus fuscescens ; abdomen longi-fusifoi'me, subtus fuscum 

 basi album ; ala angustce, anticce apice fuscce, posticce cinerece 

 nigro marginatce ; pedes fusci. 



Fein. Deep black, slender. Palpi rather long, slightly curved ; 

 third joint conical at the tip, less than half the length of the second. 

 Antennae slender, serrated beneath, white above towards the tips. 

 Pectus brownish. Wings narrow. Fore wings deep black, brown 

 towards the tips. Hind wings gray, with blackish hind borders. 

 Abdomen elongate-fusiform ; under side brown, white at the base. 

 Legs brown, slender ; fore tibiae dentate ; hind tibiae with moderately 

 long middle and apical spurs ; hind tarsi paler at the base. Length 

 of the body 4J lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



a, Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



65. EUCHROMIA INVARIA. 



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Mas. Atra, brevis ; caput cyaneo varium ; antenna sat late pecti* 

 natce ; abdomen breve ; alee longa? ; antica angusta purpureo- 

 nigrce ; posticce nigricantes ; pedes graciles. 



Male. Deep black, short. Head partly blue. Palpi mode- 

 rately long; third joint short. Antennae closely and rather deeply 

 pectinated. Wings long. Fore wings narrow, purplish black. Hind 

 wings blackish, rather broad in proportion to the fore wings. Abdo- 

 men short. Legs slender; hind tibiae with no middle spurs and with 

 very small apical spurs. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 

 10 lines. 



a. Santarem, Brazil. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



