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LESTICOCAMPA SCHEDOCYCLIA, new species. 



Female. — Proboscis long, moderately slender, not swollen at the 

 apex, clothed with black scales with bluish iridescent reflection; palpi 

 slender, about two-fifths the length of the proboscis, clothed with 

 black scales, with blue and iridescent luster ; occiput clothed with flat 

 iridescent scales, blue and green predominating, and quite dark in 

 appearance in some lights, in other lights entirely silvery; there is a 

 large silver patch on the vertex; prothoracic lobes well separated, 

 the upper portion clothed with dark blue and violet iridescent scales, 

 the lower portion with silvery white scales; mesonotum brown-scaled, 

 with bronzy luster; scutellum clothed with flat, light greenish, and 

 iridescent scales; metanotum with a group of setse near the apex, 

 without scales; postscutellum clothed with blue and green iridescent 

 scales; abdomen long and slender, subcylindrical, blunt at the end, 

 clothed above and at the sides with dark scales, which show blue, 

 green, and bronzy reflections; beneath white-scaled, the lateral 

 margins shallowly indented on each segment; tip of the abdomen 

 with numerous coarse bristles; veins of the wings clothed with bronzy 

 brown broad scales: legs mostly dark-scaled, with blue, bronzy, and 

 iridescent reflections; femora pale-scaled beneath; front and mid 

 legs without white markings; hind legs with a white spot at the apex 

 of the femora beneath, a white spot on the under sides of the tibiae 

 beyond the middle, the tarsi with basal white dashes on the under 

 side, becoming progressively longer on each segment and reaching 

 nearly to the apex of the fifth joint; legs without ciliation. Length, 

 1 mm. 



Two specimens, interior of Nicaragua, without precise locality. 

 (Dr. F. W. Thornton.) 



Type.— Cat. No. 11074, f.S.X.M. 



PROSOPOLEPIS JOCOSA, new species. 



Female. — Proboscis moderately long and slender, the apical portion 

 swollen, black-scaled ; palpi short, slender, black-scaled ; clypeus black- 

 ish, clothed with silvery gray scales; eyes contiguous; occiput dark- 

 scaled, with faint metallic reflection, the margin of the eyes nar- 

 rowly silver-gray-scaled; prothoracic lobes well separated, prominent, 

 clothed with blackish scales, with faint luster; mesonotum dark- 

 scaled, with faint metallic luster and with grayish reflections over the 

 roots of the wings and on the scutellum; metanotum with a group of 

 setse near the apex and without scales; postscutellum with numerous 

 long pale hairs and with dark scales like those of the abdomen; ab- 

 domen clothed above with blue-black scales, with very faint metallic 

 luster; beneath silver-white-scaled, the lateral margins straight; tip 

 of the abdomen with numerous coarse bristles; scales of the wing- 



