LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 435 



2. Trypan ophora Trapobanes. 



Purpureo-nigra ; antenna purpurea ; pectus coccineum ; abdomen 

 purpureum, subtus nigrum ; alee anticce fascia anteapicali 

 Limpida; posticce cyanea,ad costam nigra. 



Purplish black. Antennae purple. Pectus crimson. Abdomen 

 purple, black beneath. Fore wings limpid, excepting the black- 

 bordered veins, for full one-fourth of the length near the tips which 

 are bluish. Hind wings blue, black along the fore border. Length 

 of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by R. Templeton, Esq. 



Genus 56. SORITIA. 



Mas. Corpus sublineare, breve, sat validum. Caput antice 

 conicum. Palpi capite valde breviores ; articulus 3us minimus. 

 Antennae late et dense pectinatae. Abdomen subdepressum, alarum 

 margines posticos attingens. Pedes gracillimi ; tibiae posticae cal- 

 caneus duobus apicalibus minimis. Alae angustse, longiusculae ; 

 anticae vix angulatae ; posticae venis 3a et 4a valde arcuatis. 



Chalcosia, p., Kollar. 



Male. Body nearly linear, short, rather stout. Head conical 

 in front. Antennae deeply and closely pectinated. Palpi very 

 much shorter than the head ; third joint conical, very minute, much 

 less than one-fourth of the length of the second. Abdomen some- 

 what depressed, extending as far as the hind wings. Legs very 

 slender ; hind tibiae with two very minute apical spurs. Wings 

 rather long and narrow. Fore wings hardly angular behind ; 

 second superior vein bifurcate ; first and second inferior veins 

 united for some space from the discal areolet ; third and fourth 

 remote at the base, from whence they approach each other and 

 afterwards run parallel for most of the length. Hind wings with 

 the third and fourth inferior veins much curved. 



1. SORITIA LEPTALINA. 



Purpureo-nigra, subtus albida ; antenna purpurea ; thorax antice 

 coccineus, maculis humeralibus flams ; pedes subtus albi ; ala 

 antica dimidio basali flavo aut flavo vittato, maculaque untica 

 apicem versus flava ; postica flava, nigro marginata. 



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