3*24 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



8. DlOPTIS CCELESTINA. 



Var. ? Cyanea ; caput coccineo-hirtum, antice album ; palpi 

 pedesque subtus albi ; abdomen albo univittatum ; aim atra, 

 basim versus cyanescentes, vitta una albo-hyalina nigro uni- 



venosa . 



Phalama coelestina, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 107, pi. 345, f. g. 



Surinam. 



Blue. Head clothed with crimson hairs, white in front. Palpi 

 and legs white beneath. Proboscis ferruginous. Abdomen with a 

 white stripe which is slender above, broad beneath. Wings deep 

 black, bluish towards the base, each with a white hyaline stripe 

 which is intersected by a black vein ; stripe in the fore wings diseal, 

 straight behind, convex in front, attenuated towards the base, much 

 less than half the length of the wing; stripe of the hind wings 

 nearly linear, proceeding from the base towards the hind border, 

 along three-fourths of the length. Length of the body 5 lines ; of 

 the wings 14 lines. 



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



9. DlOPTIS HCEMANTHUS. 



hate cyanea ; prothorax subtus et caput coccineo-hirta, hoc antice 

 album ; pedes et abdomen subtus alba, hoc apice testaceum ; 

 alee atrce, basim versus cyanea? ; anticce fascia obliqua abbreviata 

 trigona discali albo-hyalina ; postica vitta discali angusta albo- 

 hyalina. 



Bright blue. Prothorax beneath and head clothed with crim- 

 son hairs. Head white in front. Palpi crimson towards the base. 

 Proboscis black. Abdomen and legs white beneath. Abdomen with 

 a tuft of black hairs at the tip ; sexual appendages large, testaceous. 

 Wings deep black, blue towards the base. Fore wings with an 

 oblique elongate-triangular white hyaline band in the disk beyond 

 the middle, this band is attenuated towards the hind border and 

 approaches nearer to it than to the fore border, and contains no 

 apparent veins. Hind wings with a narrow white hyaline diseal 

 stripe which extends from the base nearly to the hind border and is 

 traversed obliquely by a black vein near its tip. Length of the body 

 5 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 



a. Mexico. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



