424 SYNT05I1DJS. 



wing narrow ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from 

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

 cell half the length of wing ; veins 2 and 4 stalked ; 3 absent ; 5 from lower 

 angle of cell ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



939. Leucopleura cucadma. 



Cosmosoma cucadma, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 171 (1894); id. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 335, pi. 70. f. 22. 



c5" . Blue-black ; frons white ; thorax with a pair of dorsal white 

 spots ; coxse, fore legs, and tarsi marked with white ; abdomen 

 with subdorsal and ventral white stripes. Fore wing with white 

 point at base of costa ; a metallic blue streak below base of median 

 nervure and mark at base of inner margin ; an elongate hyaline 



Fig. 224. — Leucopleura Ciocadma, (^ . \. 



spot below middle of cell ; an oblique fascia composed of four spots 

 bej'ond the ceU, contracting at middle and expanding at lower end. 

 Hind wing with metallic blue streaks in cell and on inner area : 

 a hyaline streak below the cell and spots be}ond the cell above and 

 below vein 5. 



Hah. Panama, Bugaba {Champion)., 1 J type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 30 miUim. 



Genus PSEUDOSPHENOPTERA. 



Type 



Pseudosphenoptera, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 370 (1876). hasalis. 



Chloropsinus, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 409 (1876) basa/is. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned, reaching just above vertex of head ; 

 antenna; bipectinate, with moderate bi-anches dilated at extremity ; tibia; with 

 the sjours moderate; abdomen rather slender towards base but not constricted, 

 the terminal segments with slight lateral tufts. Fore wing long and narrow ; 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from ujijDer angle; 7, 8,9, 

 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of 

 cell ; 3 from 2 close to the termen ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 stalked. 



940. Pseudosphenoptera basalis. 



Euchromia basalis, Wlk. i. 251 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 128. 

 Chloropsinus lanceolafus, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 409 (1876) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 156. 



Black shot with metallic blue ; frons and vertex of head and 

 thorax mixed with white ; tegulae, metathorax, sides of thorax, and 

 legs with patches of metallic blue ; abdomen with two white spots 

 on 1st segment ; indistinct dorsal and subdorsal metallic blue lines ; 

 a ventral white patch at base. Fore wing strongly sufiused with 



