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general shape of the wing and in the straightening of Mia Cypto- 

 lestes is very similar to Megalestes, from which it is separated at 

 once by the more petioled wing, the shape of the quadrangle, 

 the more proximal forking of M2, and the presence of sectors 

 bet we s and Mj. 



Type: Cyplolesies luberalatiis, new species. 



Cjrptolestes tuberalatus, new species 



Abdomen: male 51-54, female 47.5; hind wing, male 37, 

 female 39. 



Male: Rear of head dull yellow; labium Ught dull yellow, 

 darker anteriorly, the end and movable hooks black, the latter 

 especially shining black (dull pale yellow or flesh, brown tipped in 

 Archilestes grajidis); gena and mandible black; labrum bright 

 blue, paler above, edged with black below; anteclypeus largely 

 blue, shading out laterally and above into black; postclypeus, 

 frons, epicranium, and antenna black, the epicranium, especially 

 about the eyes, tinged metallic green. The colors of the eyes in 

 life were briefly noted as follows: limited area above blue, then 

 broadly black, yellow below. 



Prothorax brown, below shading out to pale dull yellow; 

 the anterior border black-edged; middle lobe with two or three 

 metalHc green areas on each side above; posterior lobe black above 

 with green reflections, posterior border convex. 



Thorax brown, mesepisternum and mesepimeron each with a 

 large metallic green area which covers most of each sclerite but 

 does not reach any sutures; mesepimeron below darker or black 

 anteriorly and dull yellow posteriorly, this yellow sometimes 

 extended above as a yellow stripe on the first lateral suture as in 

 the female; suture between metepisternum and metepimeron 

 black; ventral edge of metepimeron with anterior half yellow 

 and posterior half black; sternum dull pale yellow, anterior half 

 with an ill-defined central area and one on either side brown or 



