320 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



with a white spot at the tip beneath. Length of the body 5 lines ; 

 of the wings 14 lines. 



Var. 0. Stripe of the hind wings very short, forming a fusiform 

 spot in the middle. 



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



Group 3. PHELLOE. 



Mas. Corpus cylindricum,lineare, gracile,longissimum. Palpi 

 ascendentes, arcuati, capitis longitudine ; articulus 3us minimus, 

 2i octava parte non longior. Antennas simplices, gracillima?, corporis 

 dimidio vix longiores. Abdomen alas posticas dimidio superans. 

 Pedes graciles; tibiae anticse non dentatae ; posticae calcaribus qua- 

 tuor breviusculis. Alae angustae. 



Male. Body cylindrical, linear, slender, very long. Palpi 

 ascending, curved, as long as the head ; third joint very small, not 

 more than one-eighth of the length of the second. Antenna? simple, 

 very slender, hardly more than half the length of the body. Abdo- 

 men extending for full half its length beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 slender; fore tibia? not dentated ; hind tibia? with .four rather short 

 spurs. Wings narrow. 



3. DlOPTIS GLAUCASPIS. 



Alra, subtus alba ; thorax et abdomen albu trivittata ; prothorax 

 luteo-hirtus ; abdomen cyaneum ; alee anticce macula rotunda 

 discali albo-hyalina, venis basim versus albis ; posticce cyanes- 

 centes, macula apicali subtus viitaque brevi subobliqua discali 

 albo-hyalinis. 



Deep black. Head mostly white. Proboscis black. Palpi, 

 legs and abdomen white beneath. Prothorax clothed with luteous 

 hairs. Thorax and abdomen with three white stripes. Abdomen 

 blue. Fore wings tinged with blue towards the base, with a white 

 fringe at the tips, and with a nearly round white hyaline spot in the 

 disk a little beyond the middle, traversed by white veins ; veins 

 white, hoary towards the tips. Hind wings tinged with blue, with 

 a white spot at the tips beneath, clothed with white hairs along the 

 inner border, and having a white very slightly oblique discal stripe 

 which extends from the inner border along more than half the 

 length. Length of the body 5^ — 7 lines; of the wings 12 — 14 

 lines. 



Var. £. Stripe of the hind wings partly gray. 

 a — c. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



