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SYNTOMID^. 



back of head and tegiiLe with crimson spots ; patagia with white 

 patches ; pectus with white patches ; base of femora with white 



spots ; abdomen with 



lateral series of large 



whitish spots, a white 



spot on terminal segment; 



the ventral surface with 



white patch extending to 



3rd segment and followed 



by paired spots or bands 



on terminal segments. 



Fore wing with white 



points at base ; a diffused postmedial whitish band from costa to 



vein 2. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and terminal area very 



broadly and irregularly black suffused with blue. 



Hah. Amazons, R. Jurua, R. Purus, R. Negro {Trail), 4 S . 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



Fig. 189. — Teiwer glaucopis, ^. 



Sect. III. Wings of male normal ; hind wing with vein 8 absent. 



*850. Teiicer carmania. 

 Pezaptera carmania, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 379 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 153. 



J . Black ; palpi in front, frons at sides, and fore coxae white ; 



abdomen with the ventral 

 surface white except at ex- 

 tremity. Fore wing with two 

 hyaline streaks in cell, a fascia 

 below the cell and above bases 

 of veins 2, 3, 4. Hind wing 

 hyaline, the veins and margins 

 black ; the costal area black ; 



the terminal black band expanding and irregular towards tornus. 

 Hah. EcuADOE, Sarayacu (Buchley). Exp. 28 millim. Type tin 



Coll. Druce. 



Fig. 190. — Teucer carmania, ^. 



Genus EPANYCLES. 



Type. 



Epanycles, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 425 (1876) ... imperialis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head ; antennae 

 with the shaft somewhat thickened at middle, bipectinate, with short branches 

 dilated at extremity and ending in a bristle, the apical part serrate ; tibiae with 

 the spurs moderate ; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair at base. Fore 

 wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell or 3 from near angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 

 6 downcurved from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 

 male with a fold on inner area containing a tuft of long hair on underside. 



851. Epanycles imperialis. 



Euchromia imperialis, Wlk. i. 241 (1854) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 

 p. 80 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 173. 



Head and thorax black, with patches of brassy green ; antennae 



