EPISCEPSIS. 



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at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 

 (■> from upper angle ; 7,8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the 

 cell long ; vein 2 from long before angle ; .">, 4 from angle ; 5 from well above 

 angle ; (5, 7 from upper angle ; male usually with a fold on inner area above 

 containing a tuft of long hair. 



Sect. I. Hind wing of male with the tornus produced to a point. 



A. Male with the tuft of hair from abdomen behind stigmata, the 

 inner margin of hind wing very short. 



855. Episcepsis melanitis. 



Ce7itroii ia inekmiiis, Unhn.Zutr. *ix. Schraett. i. p. 19, ff. 93, 94 (1827); 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 402. 



(S . Black-brown ; the tufts on abdomen and fold on inner margin 

 of hind wing white ; palpi white in front ; legs striped with white 

 abdomen with slight lateral segmental lines and subventral series 



Fig. 193. — Episcepsis melanitis, cJ . 



of white spots. Fore wing with oblique golden-yellow band from 

 middle of costa almost reaching tornus ; cilia white at apex. 

 Underfjide shot with brilliant blue. 



Hab. Bk. Guiana, 2 J . Eup. 54 millim. 



B. Male with the tuft of hair from base of hind wing, the inner 

 margin long. 



a. Fore coxte crimson lenceus. 



h. Fore cox£e white thetis. 



856. Episcepsis lenaeus. 



Sphinx leiKSus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 248. G (1780); Dnice, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 74; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 164. 



J . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; back of head and 

 shoulders with paired crimson spots ; fore coxa) crimson ; abdomen 

 metallic blue, the dorsal patch of hair brown ; the ventral surface 

 fuscous, with white patches on fii-st three segments. Fore wing 

 fuscous brown, with apical white patch. Hind wing fuscous with 

 a slight bluish tinge ; some hyaline in, below, and beyond cell ; the 

 tuft on inner area white. 



2 ■ Abdomen without white patches below, 

 VOL. I. 2 c 



