388 STNIOMID^. 



861. Episcepsis inornata. (Plate XI Y. fig. 23.) 



AutomoUs inornata, Wik. vii. 1636 (1856) ; Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 176. 

 Hcliura lamia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 74 (part). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown ; back of head 

 and shoulders with paired scarlet spots ; fore coxae scarlet ; abdomen 

 shot with metallic blue above, except the dorsal hairy patch. Fore 

 wing uniform fuscous brown. Hind wing fuscous, with the cell 

 and area just below it semihyaline. 



Hah. GrATEMALA, Dueiias, Yolcan de Atitlan (C7iamj)ion), 2 5, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. : Costa Rica (Underwood), ] $ ; West Coasi 

 OF Ameeica (Kellett), 1 $ type. Ea-j). 32-38 millim. 



862. Episcepsis hypoleiica, u. sp. (Plate XIV. fig. 4.) 

 Heliura lamia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 74 (part). 



Head and thorax fuscous: back of head and shoulders Avith 

 paired scarlet spots ; fore coxae scarlet ; abdomen metallic blue above, 

 the segments edged with black, the dorsal patch of hair fuscous ; 

 the ventral surface fuscous, with large white patches on first three 

 segments. Fore wing fuscous brown, the veins blackish. Hind 

 wing fuscous shot -ttnth blue, the area in and below cell semi- 

 hyaline. 



Hah. CosTA Pica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood), 1 d 2 $ , type, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 36 millim. 



863. Episcepsis venata 



Episcepsis venafa, Butl.Ill. Het. i. p. 49. pi. 16. f. 7 (1877) ; Druce, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 358; Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 175. 

 Heliura cBlia, Schaus, Ent. Am. v. p. 90 (1889) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 164. 



Fuscous black ; back of head and shoulders with paired crimson 

 spots ; fore coxae crimson ; abdomen suffused with metallic blue 

 towards extremity, and with difiused white below except towards 

 extremity. Fore wing dirty whitish with diffused brown on the 

 veins, discocellulars, apical and torual areas. Hiud wing with 

 slight hyaline streaks in, below, and beyond the cell ; the tuft of 

 hair in male pale. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa {TrujilJo), 1 $ , Tabasco (H. H. Smith), 

 1 cJ, Godman-Salvin Coll. : Amazons, E. Jutahi (Trail), 1 $ type. 

 Eccj}. 32 millim. 



Bi Hind wing of male with the inner margin very short, the 



torniis obliquely truncate and with a fringe of thick hair. 



a. Coxre and ventral surface of abdomen yellowish; fore 



wing rusty black endodasia. 



h. Coxa? and ventral surface of abdomen pinkish ; fore wing 



brown, the veirs fuscous obsoleta. 



