. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 897. Sciopsyche tropica. Euchromia tropica, Wlk. i, 236 (1854); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 174. Sciopsyche cinerea, Butl. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 426 (1876) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p 174. Puscous black ; fore coxoc and pectus with patches of metallic green; abdomen with broad lateral metallic green stripes and sub- lateral series of white points. Fore wing with ^^^ the interspaces rather thinly scaled ; a metallic Y\\0.—Sciopscijhetropl<a, (S. \. green spot bel
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 897. Sciopsyche tropica. Euchromia tropica, Wlk. i, 236 (1854); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 174. Sciopsyche cinerea, Butl. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 426 (1876) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p 174. Puscous black ; fore coxoc and pectus with patches of metallic green; abdomen with broad lateral metallic green stripes and sub- lateral series of white points. Fore wing with ^^^ the interspaces rather thinly scaled ; a metallic Y\\0.—Sciopscijhetropl<a, (S. \. green spot below base of median nervure. Hind wing semihyaline, the veins and terminal area broadly and irregu- larly suffused with fuscous. Hah. ?Honduras; Colojibia, Sta. Marta {Bouchard); Brazil, type, Ega, Santarem (Bates)^ Espiritu Santo, type cinerea. Ecc]^: 36-40 millim. Genus NAPATA. Type. Napata, Wlk. i. 231 (1854) terminalis. Diahcena, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 4 (1874), non deser cincticollis. Metriophyla, Butl. 111. Hel. i. p. 43 (1877) albiplaga. Proboscis Avell developed; palpi upturued; antenuse bipectinate, with moderate branches dilated at extremity ; tibite with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind wing with the cell long; veins 3, 4, 5 from close to angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle. Sect. I. Hind wing of male with the tornus truncate and fi-inged with long hairs. 898. Napata fenestrata. Lcemocliaris fenestrata, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 30 (1896). 6. Black-brown with an olive tinge ; neck with orange ring; shoulders striped with orange; abdomen with orange lateral fasciae on 4th to 6th segments, on the last two extending subdorsally; the ventral surface orange except ter- minal segments. Eore wing with olive streaks in iuterspaces of basal 3^ half; a short hyaline streak below basal part of costa, and a vvedge- j^jo. 211. shaped mark in end of cell; four Napaia fenestrata
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