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PSYCHE. 



[August — December 1SS9. 



brownish shade on huid wings. 



Male Female 



Length, 50 3S-45 



Abdomen, 38 31-3S 



Alar, exp., 58 57-^4 



Hab. Kentucky, Burmeister's type ; 

 Georgia, Abbot, 25 April, a couple in 

 the collection of Escher Zollikoler in 

 Zurich ; H. K. Morrison, both sexes, 

 many specimens. Palatka, St. John's 

 River, March, O. Sacken, and Appa- 

 lachicola, Florida, R. Thaxter. 



Race Apicalis. 



Caloptcryx apicalis Burm. Hdb. v. 

 2, 227,8. Selys Monogr. Cal. 23,3 ; 

 Synops. Cal. 9,3. Walk. Catal. Br. 

 mus. 591,3- Hagen Synop. Neur. N. 

 A. 56,2 ; Synops. Odon. N. A. 21,2. 



The smallest known species ; near!}- 

 related to C. dimidiata but smaller and 

 more slender ; male metallic green or 

 blue ; labium, head below black ; la- 

 brum, epistoma, second joint of antenna 

 brassy green or blue ; tubercles on oc- 

 ciput very sharp ; thorax metallic 

 green or blue, also the parts near abdo- 

 men ; all sutures black ; thorax below 

 yellowish ; legs black, hind legs reach- 

 ing to the fourth segment ; abdomen 

 metallic-blue and green ; below black ; 

 appendages black, similar to C dimid- 

 iata ; wings narrow, 7 mm. broad, 

 h^•aline, the sixth part of the apex 

 black, with inner border straight ; re- 

 ticulation black, costa steel blue ; an- 

 tecubitals 18 to 23 ; quadrangular space 

 4 to 6 transversals ; sinus before the 

 wings with the posterior border sinu- 

 ated. 



Female similar to the male, brassv 

 green ; second suture of thorax and the 

 abdominal border, and below yellow ; 

 apical segment of the abdomen below 

 witli two teeth on the border ; wings 

 hyaline without pterostigma or with a 

 verv small white one, filling one cell, or 

 a little dilated in three cells ; reticula- 

 tion black, costa steel-blue. 



Male Female 



43 



Length, 

 Abdomen, 

 Exp. alar., 



43-45 

 35-37 



57 



57 



Hab. Burmeister's types from Phila- 

 delphia, Fa. ; two males, one female 

 without pterostigma ; a couple from 

 the same locality by Ph. R. Uhler with 

 a small pterostigma. VValtham, Mass., 

 July 2 1, 1S64, by Ph. R. Uhler one 

 male and two females, with a more de- 

 veloped pterostigma ; South Reading, 

 Mass., bv Frank Stone. 



Group 2. Wings dilated ; the hind 

 margin ^■isiblv rotmded. 



4. Caloptekvx aequabilis. 



Caloptervx aequabilis Say. Journ. 

 acad. Philad. v. 8., 23,2. Edit. 

 Le Conte, v. 2, p. 405. Hag. Proc. 

 Bost. soc. nat. hist. v. 15, 274,40. 



Male, steel blue or brassy green ; 

 head dark, somewhat brassv ; tubercles 

 of occiput short, blunt ; antennae black ; 

 labrum black ; thorax with a fine, 

 wavy, yellow line above the legs ; 

 upper appendages black, strong, cur- 

 vate, the apical half externall}- with 

 strong spines, internally dilated, after 

 an excision followed bv a short tooth ; 



