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SPHSEROPHTHALMA. 327 



30. Sphserophthalma lycimnia. (Tab. XIV. fig. 13, $ .) 



Long. 12 millim. $ . 



Hab. Mexico, Cordova {H'oge). 



Head a little wider than the thorax, rounded in front, almost transverse behind, the 

 hinder angles moderately rounded ; ferruginous, except the posterior orbits and the 

 upper part of the occiput behind ; covered with long, pale, fuscous hair, the posterior 

 orbits with silvery pubescence ; the mandibles ferruginous, with the tips black. The 

 scape of the antennse punctured, sparsely covered with white hair ; the flagellum reddish 

 beneath ; the third joint more than twice the length of the fourth. The thorax 

 coarsely punctured above ; the base almost transverse ; from there it becomes slightly 

 dilated to near the middle, and is then rather abruptly and distinctly narrowed, the 

 pleura projecting into a stout blunt tooth ; the sides rugged ; the apex at the top is 

 rounded, the rest oblique. The propleurse are blackish and finely aciculated, and 

 sharply separated from the mesopleurse ; the base of the mesopleurse is black, above 

 and at the sides before the tooth they are obscurely punctured and covered with a pale 

 pubescence, behind it they are shining, impunctate, and glabrous; the apex of the 

 metapleurae is blackish, this being also the case with the apex of the median segment. 

 The pubescence on the thorax is white. The basal segment of the abdomen is covered 

 with long white hair. On the base of the second segment are two oval reddish maculae ; 

 and at the apex are two transverse ones, which are double the size of the basal pair, 

 the apical pair being almost united in the middle. The third to the fifth segments are 

 closely punctured at the apex and covered with dull reddish hair. The pygidium is 

 pale ferruginous, except at the extreme apex, and thickly covered with long, stiff, pale, 

 golden pubescence. The basal ventral segment has a V-shaped raised space in the 

 centre in front ; the keel is blunt, and ends before the apex of the segment, its base 

 being oblique. The second segment has large, widely-separated, punctures, and is 

 sparsely covered with rather long white hairs. The other ventral segments are fringed 

 also with long white hair. The hypopygium is ferruginous. The femora and tibiae 

 are covered with white hair ; the tibial spines are ferruginous, the calcaria pale fulvous ; 

 the tarsi thickly covered with ferruginous pubescence. 



This species may be readily known from the others here described with four orange 

 spots on the abdomen by the projection on the middle of the thorax, and by the thorax 

 being entirely ferruginous. 



^ 31. Sphserophthalma phedyma. (Tab. XIV. fig. 15, $ .) 



Long. 12 millim. $ . 



Hab. Guatemala, El Tumbador 2500 feet {Champion). 



Very similar in coloration to S. mirandillensis, but with the head bulging out behind 

 and the eyes concave (instead of transverse) posteriorly. 



