PIONIA. — RHIPHA. 
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PIONIA, Walker. 
Pionia lycoides. (Plate VIII. fig. 10.) 
Euchromia (Pionia) lycoides, Wallcer, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 256. n. 97 (18.54). 
Primaries black, the base and a broad irregular band beyond the middle ochreous ; 
secondaries greyish hyaline, with the veins and diffused borders dark brown ; tAvo oblong 
ochreous costal spots. Body black, ochreous at the sides ; basal half of palpi, coxae, distal half 
of trochanters, basal half of venter, and a central streak connected therewith, ochreous ; joints 
of palpi and legs whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 
Venezuela [Dyson); Rio Janeiro. 
POMPOSTOLA, Hilbner. 
Pompostola vicaria. (Plate X. fig. 4.) 
Euchromia (Pompostola) vicaria, Wallcer, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 207. n. 2 (1854). 
Wings purplish brown : primaries with an interno-median cuneiform patch towards the 
base, and a postmedian spot, deep orange ; base of costa green : secondaries with the basal 
area orange. Body black-brown ; frons, collar, tegulse, and a central spot on prothorax, 
glittering metallic blue-green ; middle of mcso- and metathorax and front margins of the 
abdominal segments, golden green ; body below purplish black, sides of pectus metallic green ; 
trochanters and a spot on the hind tibiae white ; upper margins of second and third femora 
and underside of the tibiae, testaceous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 
Ashanti ; Sierra Leone [Foxcroft) . 
EHIPHA, Walker. 
Rhipha strigosa. (Plate IX. fig, 12.) 
Euchromia (Rhipha) strigosa, WaVcer, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 273. u. 128 (1854). 
Black : wings blue-black : primaries with the nervures at the base, a longitudinal streak 
in the cell, and five parallel streaks (the first and fifth broad and wedge-shaped) from the 
upper radial nervure to the inner margin : secondaries with the central area greyish. Head and 
collar spotted with white ; tegulae white, with black margins ; metathorax Avith a central m bite 
spot ; abdomen with four golden-yellow spots on each side. Wings below blue-black, nervures 
and fringe brown : primaries with all the white streaks, excepting the uppermost on the disk, 
obsolete : secondaries with a trifid white streak below the cell : palpi fringed with white at the 
base ; legs white below the knees ; anterior trochanters orange ; venter ochreous, black at tlie 
sides. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. 
Rio Janeiro. 
Eucyrta subulifera of Feldcr seems to be a variety of this species, in which the white 
patch on the under surface of secondaries appears above. 
