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black; legs black; knees and tarsi ferruginous; wings black, white at 
the base and with 3 white bands ; one near the base, the 2. just within 
the discal, transverse vein, the 3. oblique and subapical ; halteres whitish. 
L. of the body 2 lin. — Wings 5 lin.» Brasilien. 
4. Henna intrudens , Walker, Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., n. ser. IY, 
p. 228 (1856—1858). 
« J : Bluish black ; head dark blue ; ferrugineous in front ; abdomen 
attenuated at the tip ; legs black ; tarsi testaceous at the base ; wings 
white, with 4 bands which are blackish along the costa, pale grey hind- 
ward; 3. and 4. bands connected on the costa; halteres whitish. 
L. of the body \ Z U lin. — 27a lin. Valley of the Amazon.» 
Wahrscheinlich dieselbe Art wie Euxesta Annonae , Fabr. 
5. Orta,lis leucomelas , Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., n. ser. Y, 
p. 325 (1860). 
« Blackish-green ; antennæ and legs black; tarsi piceous, wings 
white, with 4 black bands ; first band near the base ; 2. broad, much 
dilated hindward; third narrow, also dilated hindward; 4. costal, joining 
the 3. at much beyond half the length of the costa and extending 
thence to a little beyond the tip of the wing ; discal transverse vein 
parted by one-fourth of its length from the border, and by more than 
twice its length from præbrachial transverse vein; halteres white. 
L. of the body 2 72 lin. — Wings 4 lines. South-America. » 
Höchst wahrscheinlich eine Euxesta- Art ! 
6. Amethysa intermedia, Lynch-Arribalzaga, Stett. Entomol. Zeitg. 
Voi. 42, p. 191 (1881). 
«A Macquarti et propinquae, Schin. maxime affinis, sed differt 
prima pedibus nigris et 2. fascia obscura, 3. alarum cum 4. s. apicali 
antice conjuncta. Long, d 3, ç 4*5 mm. 
Caput obsolete albo-pruinosum ; frons obscure ferruginea, nigro- 
setosa, vertex epistomaque viridi-nigra, nitida; antennæ ferruginæ, arti¬ 
culo tertio cum stylo fusco. Thorax viridi-nigra, leviter chalybescens 
interdum parum auratus, obsolete albopruinosus, breviter nigro-setosus ; 
pedes nigro-picei, nitidi, breviter nigro-setulosi, femoribus anticis extus 
viridescentibus, trochanteribus genibusque perparum ferrugineis, meta¬ 
tarsis posterioribus testaceis ; alæ limpidæ, venis fuscis, fasciis 4 nigro- 
fuscis ornatæ ; prima subbasali, 2. omnibus latiore, completa, inter basin 
et nervulum transversum primum ista, siti contigua, postice amplicata 
et satis dilutiore, in margine postico alæ cum sequenti anguste con¬ 
juncta, 3. quoque completa, nervulum transversum 2. includente, ad 
marginem costalem cum 4. anguste conjuncta, quarta apicali; halteres 
ferruginei. Abdomen nigrum, nitidum, breviter nigro-setulosum.» 
