Poliopastea by venation.


Rothschild, 1911; Novit. Zool. 18 (1): 40;

72.  Poliopasta  ockendeni  sp.  nov.
Male.  Logs  black-brown,  coxae  and  bands  on  tibiae  pale  metallic  blue,  tips  of tarsi  white  ;  palpi  and  antennae  black ;  head  black  with  a  pale  whitish  blue  spot on  frons  and  vertex ;  thorax  black  with  pale  whitish  bine  spots  on  tegulae, shoulders,  mesothorax,  and  metathorax  ;  abdomen  blackish  oil-green  with  dorsal
and  sublateral  whitish  bine  lines. Wings  deep  metallic  blue  ;  forewing  with
three  whitish  spots  at  base.
Female.  Similar.


The following refer to the same species:

Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. (Suppl.) 1:

*7146. Macrocneme occendeni.
Poliopasta ockendeni, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 40 (1911), and xx. p. 470, pl. xiii. f. 28.
3d. Head and thorax black-brown, the frons, vertex of head, tegule, and shoulders with white spots; mesothorax with pair of minute metallic blue streaks, the metathorax with blue spot; fore coxe and the tibize tinged with blue, the hind tarsi fringed with white hair at extremity; abdomen black-brown tinged with blue and with dorsal and lateral blue streaks, the ventral valve edged with white and with lateral metallic blue spots. Fore wing black-brown suffused with metallic blue except on basal area; a white point at base and subbasal white points below costa and cell. Hind wing black-brown slightly suffused with metallic blue except towards base.
Fore wing with vein 10 from the cell.
Hab. Br. Guiana, Tumatumari; Perv, Carabaya,.R. Huacam- ayo, La Union (Ockenden), type t 3 in Coll. Rothschild. Hyp. 44 millim

*617 a. Saurita anthracina. (Plate X. fig. 10.) Saurita anthracina, Klages, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 537 (1906).
©. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; vertex of head with metallic blue spots and some whitish scales ; tegule, shoulders, and mesothorax with paired metallic blue spots and some white scales, the metathorax with single spot; pectus with blue spots ; legs black-brown ; abdomen with dorsal and lateral lines and sublateral series of spots green turning to blue at base. Fore wing black- brown slightly suffused with metallic blue. Hind wing black- brown. Underside of fore wing with metallic blue streak on base of sub- costal nervure and diffused streak on median nervure branching on veins 2, 3, 4; hind wing with diffused metallic blue streak on median nervui e.
Hab. Vexnzvera, Suapure (Klages). Exp. 44 millim. This
species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in
U.S. Nat. Mus.