SPHECOSOMA. — POMPILOPSIS. 161 



318. Sphecosoma melanotum, n. sp. (Plate VII. fig. 4.) 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; head with some white 

 hair ; legs yellow ; abdomen with the constricted 2nd segment 

 yellow, the Jird segment edged with yellow ; the ventral valve 

 yellow ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black. 

 Fore wing with subcostal yellow streak ; the inner margin and 

 costa of hind wing yellowish. 



$ . Abdomen with the 3rd and 4th segments edged with yellow. 

 Hab. Bolivia, Corvico {Garlepp), 1 6 type; g in Coll. Staud- 

 inger. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus BOMBOPSYCHE, nov. 



Type, B. ruafana. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head, the 

 1st joint clothed with long hair, the 3rd acuminate; antennas bipectinate, 

 with short branches dilated at extremity, the apical part serrate ; tibiae with the 

 spurs moderate; abdomen with lateral tubercles on 1st segment, the 2nd 

 segment strongly constricted, tlieu rather abruptly dilated, and tapering to a 

 point at extremity ; male with ventral valve covering basal segment. Fore 

 wing narrow ; veins 2 and 3 from a point before angle of cell ; 5 from above 

 angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 7 given off nearer the 

 apex than 9; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 2 and 4 on a long stalk i 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



319. Bombopsyche ruatana. 



Antichloris ruatana, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) ii. p. 241 (1888) ; Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 351, pi. 72. f. 14 



c? . Black. Fore wing with 

 the terminal area from costa to 

 vein 3 paler and rather thinly 

 scaled. Hind wing with hya- 

 line patch below base of cell. 



Hah. Honduras, lluatan I. 

 (Gaumer), 2 d type, God- 

 Fig. "iZ.—Bovibapsyche ruatana, J . |^. man-Salvin Coll. Exp. 24 



millim. 



Genus POMPILOPSIS, nov. 



Type, P. tarsalis. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned, slender and hardly reaching 

 vertex of head, the 1st joint fringed with long hair, tbe 3rd short ; antennae 

 bipectinate, with moderate branches, short in female, dilated at extremity and 

 ending in a bristle, the apical part serrate; tibiae with the spurs moderate: 

 abdomen with slight lateral tubercles to 1st two segments, the 3rd segment 

 with slender peduncle, then suddenly expanding and tapering to apex. Fore 

 wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 9 given off close to the apex ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the lower part of cell very sliort, the discocellulars very short ; 

 veins 2 and 4 stalked ; 3 and .5 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



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