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10. DlOPTIS AZUREA. 



Cyanea ; caput album, luteo-hirtum ; abdomen vitta dorsali ventre- 

 que albis ; palpi basi lutei ; pedes subtus albi ; alee atrce, basi 

 cyanescentes ; anticce macula obliqua subtrigona discali albo- 

 hyalina, strigaque postica tenui alba ; posticce vitta discali 

 albo-hyalina. 



Euagra azurea, MSS. 



Blue. Head mostly white, clothed on each side and beneath 

 with luteous hairs. Palpi luteous towards the base, white beneath 

 as are also the legs and the abdomen, the latter has a white dorsal 

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

 i an oblique nearly triangular white hyaline spot in the disk beyond 

 the middle, attenuated towards the hind border, but not nearer to it 

 than to the fore border, and containing no apparent veins; a short 

 white streak proceeding from the base along the submedian vein. 

 Hind wings with a discal white hyaline stripe, widening slightly 

 from the base to beyond three-fourths of the length, and traversed 

 obliquely by a black vein. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the 

 wings 14 lines. 



a. Brazil. From M. Becker's collection. 



11. DlOPTIS GLATJCOPOIDES. 



Atra ; caput cyaneum ; palpi pedesque subtus albi ; thorax cyaneo 

 quadrivittatus et antice unifasciatus ; abdomen fas cits duabus 

 lateralibus cyaneis unaque dorsali alba, subtus albo bivitta- 

 tum ; alee anticce albo terminatce, basim versus cyaneo bivii- 

 tatce,fasciaque abbreviata discali obliqua albo-hyalina ; posticce 

 vitta discali abbreviata limpida nigro venosa. 



Deep black. Head blue, white beneath, as are also the palpi 

 and the le^s. Proboscis black. Thorax with four blue stripes, and 

 in front with an interrupted blue band. Abdomen with a slender 

 middle white stripe, and two broad lateral blue stripes; under side 

 with two white stripes. Fore wings with white tips, and with two 

 blue stripes proceeding along half the length from the base ; an 

 abbreviated oblique white hyaline band in the disk beyond the mid- 

 dle, traversed by distinct and partly by black veins. Hind wings 

 with a limpid discal stripe extending along two-thirds of the length 



