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585 a. Psilopleura dolens. (Plate IX. fig. 19.) 

 Pailbpleura dolens, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 178 (1911). 



J. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown; shoulders with 

 crimson spots, the patagia towards extremities with crimson patches. 

 Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins black-brown ; the base 

 and inner area black-brown ; the black-brown on termen expanding 

 widely on apical area. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins 

 black ; the black on termen expanding on apical area and below 

 submedian fold where it extends as a streak to base. 



f? . Blacker ; the crimson on patagia reduced to a small spot. 



Hab. Costa Rica, Sixola R. (Schaus), 1 J , 1 $ . Exp. % 

 6 22, 2 26 millim. 



*585 b. Psilopleura hsemasoira. (Plate IX. fig. 20.) 



Psilopleura hsemasoma, Curtis, Bournemouth Natural Science Soc. iii. 



p. 1, plate (1912). 

 Psilopleura sanguined, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1912 (Oct.), p. 419. 



Head and thorax fulvous brown, the vertex of head with slight grey 

 stripe, the palpi grey at base ; tegulae edged with grey at middle 

 and sides and with some crimson scales ; patagia with the upper 

 edge and base of outer edge crimson ; prothorax with pair of crimson 

 stripes edged with grey ; pectus and coxae with crimson patches ; 

 abdomen crimson, the 1st segment dark brown, a dorsal series of 

 triangular brown patches with grey stripe through them ; subdorsal 

 patches of opalescent white scales on segments -1, 5, 6. Fore wing 

 fulvous brown, thinly scaled ; a yellow patch near base below costa 

 and a quadrate patch in end of cell, extending to costa and with 

 some dark brown before and beyond it. Hind wing fulvous brown, 

 the lower part of cell, the area just beyond it, and the inner area to 

 near termen hyaline. 



Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana, type t 8 in Coll. W. P. Curtis, 

 sanguinea type f <S , $ in Coll. I). Jones. Exp. 22 millim. 



*586 a. Rkynchopyga hymenopteridia. 



Psilopleura hymenopteridia, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 36 (1911). & xx. 

 p. 471, pi. xiii. f. 42. 



J . Head and thorax chocolate-brown ; legs paler red-brown, the 

 COX89 white ; abdomen crimson, the base, a slight dorsal stripe, and 

 the two terminal segments chocolate-brown, the ventral valve white. 

 Fore Aving semihyaline tinged with red-brown ; a diffused rounded 

 chocolate-brown discoidal patch ; the inner and apical areas suffused 

 with chocolate-brown. Hind wing semihyaline tinged with red- 

 brown ; the apical area suffused with chocolate-brown. 



/lab. Bolivia, Buenavista (Steinbach), type f cf in Coll. 

 Rothschild. E.rp. 28 millim, 



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