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wings with a discal limpid black-veined stripe widening from the 

 "base to two-thirds of the length. Length of the body 4 lines ; of 

 the wings 12 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



16. DlOPTIS MlCILIA. 



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

 subtus albi ; abdomen vittis tribus ventreque albis ; alee atrce 

 basim versus cyanescentes ; anticce vitta obliqua, posticce vitta 

 discali limpidis. 



Phalaena Micilia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 62, pi. 228, f. G. 

 Limacodes Micilia, Duncan, Naturalist's Library, xxxvii. Exotic 

 Moths, 179, pi. 22, f. 1,2. 



Surinam. 



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

 with a white dot on the vertex. Palpi and legs white beneath, the 

 former crimson towards the base. Proboscis ferruginous. Thorax 

 with three slight white streaks in front, and one on each side beneath. 

 Abdomen with white stripes ; under side also white. Wings black, 

 blue towards the base. Fore wings with a subfusiform limpid stripe 

 not extending to the borders, oblique beyond the middle, intersected 

 by black veins. Hind wings limpid with black veins and with broad 

 black borders; inner border with a limpid streak. Length of the 

 body 5^ lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



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



17. DlOPTIS DIVISA. 



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

 coccinei ; thorax maculis duabus anticis albis ; abdomen et 

 pedes subtus alba, ilium vitta una nigra duabusque albis ; 

 ala. atrce , basi cyaneo vittatce ; anticce maculis tribus discali- 

 bus, postica? vitta discali, limpidis nigro venosis. 



Fern. Blue. Head white about the eyes and with two white 

 dots behind, clothed beneath with crimson hairs. Proboscis pice- 

 ous. Palpi crimson at the base. Thorax with a white spot on each 

 shoulder. Abdomen with a black dorsal stripe and a slender while 

 stripe on each side; base with a nearly triangular white- bordered 

 lappet on each side ; under side white. Legs white beneath ; fore 



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