328 LEPIDOPTERA HETEBOCERA. 



Proboscis black. Thorax with a white spot on each shoulder, and 

 sometimes with a short white dorsal stripe. Abdomen tumid on 

 each side at the base, with three white stripes ; under side also 

 white. Wings deep black, tinged with blue towards the base. Fore 

 wings with a white streak in front proceeding from the base, their 

 limpid discal stripe widening from the base to beyond two-thirds of 

 the length, and intersected by black veins ; the stripe in the hind 

 wings tapers from the base to three-fourths of the length, and also 

 contains black veins. Length of the body 4^ — 5 lines; of the wings 

 15 — 16 lines. 



«, b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



14. DlOPTIS INTEItCLTJSA. 



Cyanea ; caput coccineo-hirtum ; anlice album; palpi pedesque sub- 

 tus albi ; abdomen vittis tribus venireque albis ; ala atra, 

 apice albo fimbriate, antica fasciis duabus obliqius, posticce 

 vitta discali, limpidis. 



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

 and legs white beneath. Proboscis black. Thorax and abdomen 

 with three while stripes, the latter white beneath. Wings black. 

 Fore wings with two oblique limpid bands, not extending to the bor- 

 ders, the first lanceolate, attenuated towards the hind border, traversed 

 by a black vein; the second nearly elliptical, a little less oblique 

 and much smaller than the first, with white veins. Hind wings 

 with a discal limpid stripe which extends along full three-fourths of 

 the length from the base, and is traversed by two black veins. 

 Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



15. DlOPTIS DIMINUTA. 



LcBte cyanea ; caput antice album ; pedes et abdomen subtus albida ; 

 alee nigra; basi cyanea ; antica vitta clavata basali fasciaque 

 obliqua discali, posticce vitta, limpidis nigro venosis. 



Bright blue. Head white in front. Palpi and proboscis black. 

 Abdomen and legs whitish beneath. Wings black, blue towards 

 the base. Fore wings with two limpid black-veined marks, the first 

 a clavate stripe widening from near the base to one-third of the 

 length ; the second an oblique abbreviated band in the disk. Hind 



