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CATALOGUE OF 
Male and female. Purple. Head blue, silvery in front, with 
luteous hairs behind. Palpi yellow, porrect, hardly pilose ; third 
joint about half the length of the second. Antennae nearly twice 
the length of the thorax, tawny beneath, except towards the tips, 
where they are slightly thickened. Thorax blue in front and 
on each side. Pectus silvery. Hind borders of the abdominal seg- 
ments yellow ; apical tuft luteous, with a few brown hairs. Legs 
luteous; coxae and femora yellowish. Wings limpid, with gilded 
and rather long ciliae. Fore wings purple along the costa, and 
with a purple discal band which has a gilded border ; tips gilded in 
the male. Length of the body 3^ lines : of the wings 7 lines. 
a. Para. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
88. iEGERIA Bhyss^formis. 
Foem. Cyaneo-viridis ; caput cupreum , apud oculos album ; palpi 
albidi , apice nigricantes ; thorax jlavo bivittatus ; abdomen 
subtus album , segmenta dorsalia albo marginata ; fasciculus 
apicalis pilis nonnullis lateralibus testaceis ; pedes albo fas- 
ciati ; alee limpidee , anticce costa apice fasciaque discali pur- 
pur ascentibus. Mas.? — Cyaneo-nigra ; palpi supra nigri ; 
antennae filiformes , subtus pubescentes ; alee, anticce apice 
opaca latiuscula. 
Female. Bluish green. Head mostly cupreous, white on each 
side in front and with white hairs behind. Palpi whitish, blackish 
towards the tips, hardly pilose. Antennae very much longer than 
the thorax, hardly thickened towards the tips. Thorax with a yel- 
lowish stripe on each side. Abdomen with a white band on 
the hind border of each segment ; under side mostly white; apical 
tuft with some testaceous hairs on each side. Legs with white 
bands. Wings limpid. Fore wings with the costa, the tips, 
and the usual band purplish. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the 
wings 8 lines. Male P — Bluish black. Palpi black above. An- 
tennae filiform, simple, pubescent beneath. Apical tuft of the 
abdomen with fewer pale hairs than in the female. Fore wings 
with a broader opaque part at the tips, 
a, b . Para. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
