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Genus PSILOPUS, Megerle. 



PsILOPUS LEPIDUS, MuS. 



Viiidis, abdominis segmentorum marginibus anticis nigris, antennis pe- 

 dibmque nigris, atis limpidis fusco bifasciatis. 



Bright green, beset with black bristles: head blue, tinged u-ith purple, 

 adorned in front with white bloom ; eyes bright red : mouth black : feelers 

 black; sixth joint as long as the chest : chest not shining, tinged with blue : 

 breast with a hoary covering: abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, 

 narrower and much longer than the chest; a black band on the fore border 

 of each segment : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : wings 

 colourless, adorned with two dark brown bands ivhich are united on the fore 

 border ; tip cross-vein forming a right angle, u-hence it is indistinctly ivaving 

 to the tip of the iving ; lower cross-vein very slightly waving : wing-ribs 

 and veins black. Length of the body 2\ lines ; of the wings (3 lines. 



Mexico. 



PsiLopus ELECTUs, Mas et Fern. 



Purpureus, pectore abdominisque fasciis viridibus, antennis jjedibusque 

 nigris, tibiis fulvis, aiis sublimpidis costa fasciisque duabus connexis 

 fuscis. 



Purple, beset with black bristles : head blue, tinged with purple on the 

 crown, green in front, with a white bloom about the mouth : eyes red: 

 mouth black : feelers black, sixth joint shorter than the chest : chest partly 

 blue : breast green : abdomen longer and narrower than the chest, of the 

 male cylindrical ivith alternate purjde and green bands, of the female obco- 

 nical : legs black ; thighs thinly clothed with white hairs; shanks tawny : 

 wings nearly colourless, dark brown along the fore border for near half the 

 length from the tip; from this stripe tivo broad irregular bauds proceed near 

 to the hind border, are there connected, and thus include a square colourless 

 spot ; tip cross-vein forming a slightly acute angle ; lower cross-vein very 

 slightly traving ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers yellow. Length of the 

 body H line ; of the wings 4 lines. 



Brazil. 



