384 SYNTOMID^. 



853. Pterygopterus clavipennis. 



Pteryqopterns clavipennis, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 411 (1876) ; 

 K'irby, Cat. Het. p. 158. 



S . Blue-black ; antennae orange at tips ; head suffused with 

 metallic blue ; hind co:x8e with Avhitish patches ; abdomen with some 

 metallic green at base and on sides. Fore wing with some metallic 

 green on base and extremity of median nervure and on base of 



Fig. 192. — Pterygopterus clavipennis, ^J. \. 



vein 1 ; the area from base to middle of vein 1, to beyond lower 

 angle of cell and the costal area greenish, leaving the terminal 

 area irregularly brown. Hind wing blue-black, the costal area and 

 veins brilliant metallic green. Underside shot with metallic green^ 

 except the interspaces of terminal area. 



Hah. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 c? tyie. Exp. 48 millim. 



*854. Pterygopterus cseruleus, n. sp. 



Fterygopfcrus clavipennis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 351, pi. 72. 

 f.ll($) (nee Butl.). 



Black ; autennse with the branches of terminal two-thirds orange^ 

 the shaft black above to near middle ; head, metathorax, and leg3 

 shot with brilliant metallic blue ; hind coxae with brownish-white 

 patches ; abdomen with some blue on basal segments and subdorsal 

 blue fasciae ; the 1st segment with two blue-edged whitish ventral 

 spots. Fore wing blue-black, the terminal area brown ; a metallic 

 blue spot at base and streak on end of median nervure. Hind wing 

 black ; the apical part of costal area blue. Underside of both wings 

 with the veins bounding the cell and rising from it streaked with 

 metallic blue; male with the tuft of hair at base of hind wing 

 brown. 



Hah. MEXICO, Jalapa, Orizaba. Exp., S 52, $ 56 millim.. 

 Typefin Coll. Schaus. 



Genus EPISCEPSIS. 



Type. 



Episcepsis, Butl. III. Het. i. p. 49 (1877) venata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to just above vertex of bead ; 

 anteiiiiic bipectniate, with short branches dilated at extremity aud ending in a 

 bristle; tibiie with the spurs short; abdomen dorsally clothed with long hair 



