EPANYCLES. PTEBrGOPXERUS. 383 



black ; logs black, the fore coxae brassy green ; abdomeu brown, 



suffused witb brassy green 

 especially towards ex- 

 tremity. Fore wing brown 

 shot with purple ; the 

 base of costa brassy green. 

 Hind wing fuscous slightly 

 shot with purple ; slight 

 hyaline streaks in and 

 Yig. 191— Epa7iycles i?nperic(lis, (S- \- below cell; the fold on 



underside of male whitish. 

 Hab. Guatemala (C7wmpJo»), Godmau-Salvin Coll.: Amazons, 



Santarem type, Ega, Tapajcs {Bates). Ex^i. 32 millim. 



Genus PTERYGOPTERUS. 



Type. 

 Pterygopterns, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 411 (187(5)... clavipennis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of head, the 2ad joint 

 rather broadly scaled, the 3rd short and obtuse ; antennte long, bipectinate, with 

 moderate branches dilated at extremity and ending in a bri.stle ; thorax and 

 base of abdomen clothed veith thick hair ; tibice with the spurs moderate. 

 Fore wing with the costa arched towards a]3es, the termen very obliquely 

 curved ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for a .short distance ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 7,8,1), 10 stalked. Hind wing of male with the termen 

 much exci.sed towards tornus, which is developed into a large pointed lobe 

 bearing tufts of hair above and with a large tuft from base, of female much 

 less lobed ; the cell long : vein 2 from well before angle ; 3, 4 from angle ; 

 5 curved from below middle of discocellulars ; f5, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Fore wing with large apical white patch leticomelas. 



B. Fore wing wilhout a))ical white patch. 



a. Antennae with the terminal one-third orange ; wings shot 



with metallic green clavipennia. 



h. AnteniiEe with the branches of terminal two-thirds orange ; 



wings shot with metallic blue c<sruleus. 



852. Pterygopterus leucomelas. 



Automolis leucomela, Wlk. vii. IGSfi (18.36) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 164. 

 Fteriig opt erics siiperhus. Drnce, Eiol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 67, pi. 8. f. 7 

 (1884); Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 158. 



cJ . Blue-black ; antennae orange at tips ; hind coxae with whitish 

 patches ; head and abdomen suffused in parts with metallic blue. 

 Fore wing with slight patches of metallic blue at base of vein 1 and 

 extremity of median ncrvure ; a large apical white patch leaving 

 the cilia black ; the terminal area irregularly brown. Hind wing 

 blue-black, with the apex metallic blue. 



Hah. Panama, typo siqierbus in Coll. Staudingcr ; Bkazil, Up. 

 Amazons, 1 J , Para (Bates), typef in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 52 millim. 



