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inner rank scales of the fringe, some black and some white. Tarsi 

 basally white banded. Thorax uniformly dark brown. Abdomen 

 deep purple-black, the segments more or less distinctly apically 

 banded or fringed with yellowish scales. Proboscis with a broad 

 ferruginous band, the ant. limit of which is fairly distinct but 

 which fades off behind gradually. These markings are barely 

 perceptible in the 3' , which is almost uniformly greyish-brown. 



Head brown with grey curved and black erect forked scales, paler in 

 the (J ; palpi of $ fully one-third the length of the proboscis, brindled 

 yellowish and black, whitish at the tip ; those of ^ brindled yellowish- 

 white to black ; fourth joint with a dense tuft of hairs, basal half of end 

 joint white. First hind tarsal joint with a minute band at the juncture 

 of the middle and lower thirds, the other joints all distinctly basally 

 white banded, while in the mid legs, the upper four, and in the hind the 

 upper three tarsal joints are banded. Length. — 5 mm. ^, 5'5 ? . 



Habitat — Rio de Janeiro, New Amsterdam, British Guiana. 



2. PANOPLITES PSEUDOTITILLANS, Theob. 



(Mouog. II, p. 178). 



Plate xiii, tig. 7, Fork of IV., to show distribution of dark and light 



scales. 



Closely resembles the above, bu.t the wing is paler, its veins 

 having a rather larger proportion of pale scales than are found in 

 that species, and often four to six white ones lie along one side 

 of a vein, while those on its other are black. There are narrow 

 basal bands on all the tarsal joints of the hind and mid, but only 

 on the upper three of the fore-legs, and the extra band on the 

 hind first tarsal is absent, or at most ill-defined. The proboscis 

 with a very broad and ill-defined ferruginous band in the middle. 

 It may be distinguished from the preceding by the thorax being 

 ornamented by two paler median lines, but the chief diiference, 

 however, which is certainly specific, is in the scale ornamentation 

 of the wings. In P. titillatis there are numerous lateral scales 

 on the veins of an elongated form, similar to those of a Tcenior- 

 JiyncJius, whilst in this species the scales are all typical Panoplites 

 scales. Length. — 6 mm. 



Habitat. — Lower Amazons, Time of captuve. — March. 



3. PANOPLITES UNIFORMIS, Theob. (Monog. II, p. 180). 



Plate xiii, fig. on, Venation of whig in $ ; 3b, of S '■> 3<?) Leptotaxis of 

 wing- vein ; 3d, Head and appendages of $ . 



Wings brindled but unspotted. J tarsal joints brown, with 

 ferruginous band, swhich are scarcely perceptible in the $ . on 

 the articulations. Thorax clothed with golden scales on a dark 

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