PHILOROS. — HrALEUCERKA, 



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1177. Philoros laura, n. sp. (Plate XVII. fig. 23.) 



Dull black ; palpi at base, back of head, neck, and anal tuft crimson ; 

 palpi in front, frons, coxte, and stripes on legs white ; abdomen tinj^ed 

 with blue and with white ventral stripe. Fore wing with slight 

 yellowish streak on inner margin ; the cilia tipped with white 

 excei^t at middle. Hind wing shot with blue ; an apical white 

 patch ; the termen and inner margin white towards tornus. 



Hab. lioLiviA, Bueyes (Gco-Iej^^j)), 2 6 , type; $ in Coll. Staud- 

 inger. E.rj). 38 millim. 



1178. Philoros rubriceps. 



Ctenucha rubriceps, Wlk. ii. 283 (1854) ; Dnice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 



i. p. 82, pi. 9. f. 8 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 176. 

 Ctenucha opaca, Boisd. Lep. Gnat. p. 84 (1S7U) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 17fi. 

 Ctenucha scepsiformis, H. Edw. Ent. Am. lii. p. 91 (1887). 



Head and thorax fuscous brown ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, 



throat, and vertex of head 

 scarlet ; frons and abdomen 

 shot with blue. Fore 

 wing fuscous brown ; the 

 veins darker. Hind wing 

 shot with blue ; cilia of 

 both wings often white at 

 tips, or towards tornus only. 

 Ab. 1. ojiaca. Palpi, 

 throat, and vertex of head 

 fulvous orange. — Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Uruguay. 



IJah. Mexico (H. Edivards), 1 5 , Jalapa {Trujillo, Hoege), 

 Orizaba (Godman, Elwes), Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), Coatepec 

 (BrooJis) ; Guatemala (Champion) ; Costa Rica (Underwood) : 

 Godman-Salvin Coll.; Colombia; Venezuela, type; Bkazil, Sao 

 Paulo (Jone*), Rio Janeiro ; Vrvgvay (Berg). Exp. 30-34 millim. 



1179. Philoros neglecta. 



Tipulodes neglecta, Boisd. Voy. Astr., Lep. p. 195, pi. 3. f. 8 (1832) ; Burm. 

 Descr. Rep. Arg. v. p. 383*; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 176. 



Head and thorax brown and fuscous ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, 

 throat, and vertex of head orange ; abdomen black, shot with blue 

 above. Fore wing pale brown, sometimes whitish, the veins black- 

 brown ; cilia often whitish at tips, especially towards tornus. 

 Hind wing semihyaline fuscous tinged with blue ; cilia whitish at 

 apex and below middle. 



Hab. Peru, Arica, Callao (J. J. WaVcer). Exp. 3G-40 millim. 



Fig. 281. — Fhiloros ruhriceps, J. 



Type. 



Genus HYALEUCEREA. 



Hyaleucerca, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 309 (1875) eryihrotelus. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head; antenntp. 

 bipet-tinate, with moderate branches; tibi;c with the spurs moderale ; abdomen 

 dorsally clothed with rough lirir at base. Fore wing long and narrow, the 



