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PHOENICOPROCTA. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 
haemorrhoi- P. haemorrhoidalis F. (= frontalis Wh\) (12 b) from Brazil has an entirely black body; the forehead 
(fa/is. an( j vertex are covered with metallic-blue scales, the anal tuft is interspersed with red. The wings are hyaline 
with black-grey veins and margins. A discoidal spot and the apex of the forewing are black. 
baeri. P. baeri Rothsch. (12 b). Head and collar metallic-blue; palpi black; antennae black with white tips; 
thorax and abdomen black with a metallic-blue median line; the penultimate segment exhibits an isabel- 
yellow band, the anal tuft is black and carmine, forehips white, at the base red-spotted. On the black forewings 
the basal two thirds of the discocellular and a spot below it are hyaline. Hindwings hyaline with broad black 
margins. Brazil (Rio Uruhu, Goyaz). 
steinbachi. P. steiilbachi Rothsch. (12 b). Head and collar metallic lustrous greenish-blue, shoulder-covers and 
thorax black with greenish-blue stripes; the abdomen is black, above with a series of small, pale grey spots; 
anal tuft carmine. Palpi black, antennae black with white tips. Forehips and posterior tarsi white, the other 
parts of the legs are black. The wings are hyaline with broad black margins, the forewings have a large, black 
discoidal spot. East Bolivia. 
sanguinea. P. sanguinea Wkr. (15 a) has a black body; head and forehead blue-spotted; collar blue, bordered 
by carmine; shoulder-covers carmine; the abdomen exhibits subdorsal, carmine macular stripes and a similar 
anal tuft, on the 1st ring metallic-blue spots, on the others green-silvery, dorsal and subdorsal spots; hips carmine, 
forehips above white. Wings as in the allies. Expanse of wings: 32 mm. Honduras. 
trinitatis. p. trinitatls Strand greatly resembles the preceding, but on the forewings the upper median vein rises 
farther in front of the cell-angle; collar blue with a black margin, shoulder-covers in the basal half blue-scaled, 
thorax above with a blue, black-margined median longitudinal band; forehead one-coloured blue; hips inside 
white, at the apices outside reddish; palpi shorter. Expanse of wings: 31 mm. Trinidad (Caparo). 
lijdia. P. lydia Druce (12 b). Head black with a blue forehead. Palpi and antennae black, the latter with 
white tips. Collar and shoulder-covers orange with black margins. Middle part of the thorax metallic 
blue. Legs black, forehips laterally scarlet, anteriorly silvery white. Abdomen orange, towards the anal end 
and beneath scarlet. On the 1st segment laterally a metallic blue spot, on the 2 or 3 next ones silvery green 
spots. On the dorsum metallic greenish-blue spots with black margins growing smaller or disappearing alto¬ 
gether, towards the middle growing very large again on the 2 or 3 last rings. Forewings black with hyaline 
streaks in the cell and 2 below it, 5 behind the cell. Hindwings hyaline with black veins and margins. From 
Mexico (Orizaba; Tabasco). 
chamboni. P. chamboni Dogn. greatly approximates the preceding from which it differs by the following marks: 
behind the cell on the forewing there are only 4 hyaline spots, the one between the median veins being absent. 
The first palpal joint with orange-red hair; antennae before the tips white-spotted, the tips black; thorax 
quite black, with blue spots; abdomen above bluish-black, on the first 5 segments orange-yellow subdorsal 
spots, anal hairing carmine, ventral valve quite'black, the other part of the venter carmine-pink, the last rings 
black with a blue reflection. San Salvador. 
rubiventer. 
P. rubiventer Hmps. (= sanguinea Druce) (12 e) is well-marked by red subdorsal macular series running 
through to the red anal tuft, and an entirely red underside of the abdomen. Panama. 
asirifera. P. astrifera Btlr. (12 c). The body is black with a red anal tuft and red subdorsal streaks only 
on the first 4 abdominal rings, whereby it differs from the preceding; also the ventral valve in the $ is red- 
margined, otherwise the venter is black. Metallic-blue spots are on the forehead, vertex and thorax, the collar 
being blue, bordered by orange as the shoulder-covers. The abdomen exhibits metallic-blue spots on the 
dorsum and the sides of the first segment, green-silvery dorsal and lateral spots on the rest of the abdomen. 
The hyaline wings are very broadly margined by black. From the Amazon (Porto Alegre). 
ignicauda. p. ignicauda spec. nov. (12 c) is very closely allied to the two preceding species; it is easily discernible 
by red subdorsal streaks being only to be seen on the first abdominal ring, as well as by the 4 last abdominal 
rings being above and beneath entirely red, the two first of which exhibit black and metallic-blue dorsal spots; 
Collar and shoulder-covers are quite black. All the rest like in the preceding. A $ from Cuyaba, Province of 
Matto Grosso (Bang-Haas). 
cabana. P. cubana Druce. Head and thorax black with small blue spots; neck and collar orange. The abdomen 
is above in the larger proximal half orange, the rest, as well as the sides and venter carmine. Above the 
segments are bordered by metallic blue. Forehips white. On the hyaline forewings the veins and margins, 
as well as broad apical spots black, strewn with silvery blue scales. Also the hyaline hindwings are broadly 
bordered by black, at the inner margin carmine. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Described from Cuba. 
eximia. P. eximia H.-Schaff. (12 c) has a black body with a metallic-blue reflection; collar and shoulder- 
covers oranges. On the first abdominal ring there are small subdorsa.l red spots; the four middle segments 
exhibit sublateral white dots. The forewings are black with single metallic-blue scales; below the base of the 
cell is an elliptic hyaline spot, a spot in and below the middle of the cell, and 5 oblong spots between the 
lower median vein and the lowest subcostal. Hindwings hyaline with a broad black margin. Under surface 
