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b^. Legs black ; fore wing witli the metallic blue 



hardly extending beyond cell lades. 



h. Hind tarsi with the fringe black. 

 ((}. Wings uniformly suffused with golden cupreous 



green cupreipennis, 



6'. Wings with the metallic suffusion interrupted by 



a subbasal black band. 



a^. Fore wing with the metallic blue extending 



nearly to termen. 



a^. Fore wing with the blue on outer half of 



wing entire and occupying the outer part 



of cell adonis. 



P. Fore wing with the metallic blue on the 

 outer half broken up into streaks, and only 



a slight streak in upper end of cell cinyras. 



b^. Fore wing with the metallic blue or green 



hardly extend ing beyond cell chrysitis. 



695. Macrocneme cyanea. (Plate XI. lig. 14.) 



Mastigocera cyanea. Bull. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 372 (1876) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 1/it). 



2 . Black shot with brilliant metallic blue ; antennoe white at 

 tips ; base of palpi, frons, tegulne, pectus behiu^, and coxae with 

 white points ; hind legs with the fringes black, the last two joints 

 of tarsi white ; abdomen with subdorsal and lateral white spots on 

 1st segment and lateral and sublateral spots on 2nd segment. 

 Fore wing with the apical area not suffused with blue. Hind wing 

 with white points at ba.se below. 



Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 2 5 ■, types. Exp. 42 millim. 



69P). Macrocneme lades. 



Sphinx lades, Cram. Pap. Esot. i. pi. S3. E (1776); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 129. 

 Glaucopis leiicostigma, Perty, Del. Anim. Art. p. 158, pi. 31. f. 11 (1834) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 128. " 

 Macrocneme ferrea, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 371 (1876); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 129. 



Fig. 145. — Macrocneme lades, J. \. 



Black ; antenniB white at tips : palpi at base white ; frons with two 

 white points ; shoulders, tcgultc. pectus, coxjc in front, and base 

 of femora behind with white points, the fringe on terminal joints 

 of tarsus white : abdomen suffused with golden green ; the 1st 



