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the female. Legs slender ; fore tibia; slightly thickened and exca- 

 vated beneath ; hind tibiae with four minute spurs. Wings long, 

 moderately broad ; fore wings with four inferior veins. 



12. Dioptis DUX. 



Cyanea; caput albo varium, subtus coccineo-hirtum ; palpi, abdo- 

 men et pedes subtus alba ; thorax et abdomen albo trivittata ; 

 alceatra, basim versus cyanece ; antica vitta angulata fasciaque 

 obliqua, posticce vitta discali basi furcata limpidis nigro 

 venosis. 



Blue. Head white about the eyes and with two white dots behind, 

 clothed beneath with crimson hairs. Palpi, abdomen and legs white 

 beneath. Proboscis tawny. Thorax and abdomen with three white 

 stripes. Wings deep black, blue towards the base, with limpid 

 black-veined spaces. Fore wings with a discal stripe which extends 

 from near the base to beyond the middle, its fore side forms an 

 obtuse angle, and its hind side is very slightly concave ; beyond it 

 there is an oblique abbreviated discal band ; second inferior vein 

 nearer to the first than to the third ; third four times more remote 

 from the fourth than from the first. Hind wings with a nearly 

 linear discal stripe which extends to three-fourths of the length, and 

 at its base emits a slender fork along the inner border. Length of 

 the body 6^- — 7 lines ; of the wings 20 — 22 lines. 



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



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



c. 



. ? 



13. Dioptis Auxo. 



Cyanea ; caput coccineo-hirtum, antice album ; palpi pedesque 

 subtus albi ; abdomen vittis tribus ventreque albis ; alee atrce, 

 basim versus cyanece, vittis quatuor discalibus limpidis nigro 

 venosis, 



Hipocrita tineiforrais Auxo, Hubn. Samml. JExot. Schmett. i. Lep. iii. 



Bomb.W. Vera vi. Hipocritce A. Tineiformes, c. f. 1 — 4. 

 Agyrta Auxo, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 177, 1829. 

 Sphinx Zygaena Auxo ? Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2390, 33. 



China. 



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

 and legs white beneath, the former crimson towards the base, 



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