SCALY WINGED COPEOGNATHA. 8] 
Lepium, n. g. 
Type: L. chrysochlorum, n. sp. 
Wing more or less acuminate. The first radial branch (r,) in the 
hind wing arises between the origins of m,and m,. In the fore wing 
r, (the posterior border of the pterostigma) is united with the peduncle 
of the radial fork by a cross vein. 
Claws with one tooth before the apex. Scales fusiform with more 
or less produced apex (figs. 61 and 65). Pterostigma relatively 
smal] and narrow. 
TABLE OF THE SPECIES. 
Wing broad, apex subacute. Scaling of 
fore wing brown-black with metallic green lustre 
with some golden scales intermingled .. chrysochlorum, 
n. sp. 
Wing narrow and. strongly acuminate 
towards the apex. Scaling of fore wing blackish 
brown to dirty gray-brown ..  luridum, n. sp. 
Lepium chrysochlorum, n. sp. (fig. 15). 
Perientomum morosum, Hag. Enderlein, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. 
I., 1903, p. 323. Taf. XIII, figs. 64 and 64a; and Taf. XIV.., 
fig. 64 6. 
Head clear brown-yellow, closely beset with long, brownish, 
setiform hairs. Occiput moderately compressed lamelliform. 
fairly sharp. Maxillary palp with axe-shaped terminal joint, which 
is black-brown. Eyes rather large, somewhat prominent, brown ; 
closely and finely pubescent. The posterior ocelli distant from 
one another, large, rather near the eyes; anterior ocellus 
small. Occipital margin fairly sharp. Upper jaws strongly 
asymmetrical. Inner maxilla with three long and widely separated 
main teeth which, in part, carry further indistinct teeth. Labial 
palp distinctly 2-jointed, first joint with two hairs above, second 
joint large, with some setz, at the end closely beset with long 
taste bristles. Lobus externus of the labium rather small, lobus 
internus: only occurring as a vestige. The two chitinous filaments 
of the paraglosse of the hypopharynx join together far back. 
Antenne short and thin, 16 joints are preserved, the rest 
broken off : pale brown, sparsely beset with long, almost setiform 
hairs. 
Prothorax short but broad, clearly visible from above. Thorax 
and abdomen pale brown. Legs clear brown yellow, fore legs pale ; 
