;5" 



black, bare, very slender: hips, knees, feet, hind-thighs at the base and fore- 

 shanks tawny : wingi colourless, black at the base along the fore borders, in- 

 distinctly clouded at the tips; fore border black totvards the tip; veins 

 tawny ; fourth and fifth veins slightly converging ; lower cross-vein slightly 

 bent inward : poisers yellow. Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 

 3^ lines. 



Brazil. 



Genus LAUXANIA, Latr. 

 Lauxania poi.ita, Foem. 



Cyanea ; antenn(e fulva, arliculo So supra piceo ; abdomen lateribus 

 viridibus, apicc attenualo ; pedes picei, tarsisjlavis ; alee subcinerecB, 

 ad costam suhflavescentcs. 



Dark blue, shining : epistoma not prominent : mouth black : feelers 

 tawny ; third joint almost spindle-shaped, someivhat pitchy above, full 

 thrice the length of the second; sixth bare, black, slender, much longer 

 than the third : abdomen tinged ttnth green along each side, attenuated at the 

 tip, a little longer than the chest: legs pitchy ; feet yellow: wings very pale 

 gray, slightly yellow along the fore border ; veins pitchy, yellow along the 

 fore border : poisers yellow, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 1 ^ 

 line ; of the wings 3 lines. 



Brazil. 



Lauxania indistincta, Foem. 



Nigro-cyanca ; anlemue nigra ; pedes picei, tarsis basi fulvis ; alec lim- 

 pidce, basi et ad costam fulvce. 



Bluish black : feelers black ; third joint linear, slightly rounded at the 

 tip, reaching a little beyond the epistoma, full tlirice the length of the se- 

 cond ; sixth downy, much longer than the third : abdomen almost oval, a 

 little shorter and broader than the chest : legs pitchy ; feet lawny towards 

 the base : wings colourless, tatvny towards the base and along the fore bor- 

 der; lower cross-vein almost upright, very slightly bent inward: poisers 

 black, tawny towards the base. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 

 5 lines. 



Brazil. 



