CHAEIDEA.— METEIOPHTLA. 
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coalescent, dull rose-reel, the subapical spot redder ; bases of all the wings metallic green : 
body brown, green-spotted. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. 
Ecuador {Buckley). 
Charidea gloriosa. (Plate X. fig. 10.) 
Euchromia (Automolis) gloriosa, Wall-er, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 215. u. 16 (1854). 
Wings black : primaries with a median streak and an oval oblique spot crossing the second 
median branch, carmine ; base, two internal stripes, and two subcostal dots beyond the cell 
metallic green : basal half of secondaries shot with blue, and reflecting greenish metallic 
streaks. Body blue-green, varied with brown. "Wings below much as above, but brilliantly 
shot (to beyond the middle) w ith blue and golden green : primaries with the median streak 
considerably broader, and not reaching the base : anterior legs white internally. Expanse of 
wings 1 inch 6 to 7 lines. 
Guatemala {Salle). 
METEIOPHYLA, n. gen. 
Nearly allied to Heliura, but the sexes alike : the secondaries more truncate than in 
Heliura $ , the first subcostal more pronounced, upper discocellular less inarched and 
slanting forwards ; the second and third median branches emitted from a short footstalk. 
Type M. apicalis. 
Metriophyla apicalis. (Plate VIII. fig. 7.) 
Charidea apicalis, Her rich- S chaffer, Auss. ScJimett. i. fig. 236. 
Histioca apicalis, WaR-er, Cat. Lep. Het. vii. p. 1624 (1856). 
Heliura apicalis, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. p. 417, pi. 29. fig. 9 (1876). 
Euchromia albiplaga, Wcdker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 218. n. 21 (1854). 
Black-brown : wings w ith white apical spots : primaries with a short costal streak, a long 
internal streak, and a spot in the cell, metallic green. Head spotted with green ; collar, 
margins of tegulse, a central thoracic line, and three rows of spots on the abdomen, metallic 
green ; a white spot on each shoulder ; antennae steel-blue above. Primaries below with a 
basal streak, a large spot in the cell, and two spots beyond it, metallic green : secondaries 
with the base of costal area, the lower half of the cell, a streak below it, two abdominal streaks, 
and two subapical spots, metallic green ; apical white spot larger than above ; fringe white ; 
coxfe and femora below metallic green ; sides of venter spotted with green ; palpi below, tro- 
chanters, superior surface of tibia3, and a central longitudinal ventral streak, white. Expanse 
of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 
Venezuela {Dyson), Veragua {Salvin). 
Sphinx porjjhyria of Cramer, and Dioptis glaucopoicles of Walker, may be referred to the 
above genus, imless it be considered preferable (on account of their broader wings) to retain 
Walker's name Erchia for them. 
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