cxxii Mr. E. Newman's Description 



cross-vein forming a distinct obtuse angle, which has a very short and sometimes obso- 

 lete stump ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4£ lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 

 Hab. — Para. 



DlCHELACERA HINNTJLUS, Fem. 



Fulva, antennis fulvis apice nigris, pedibus fulvis, tibiis posticis apice tarsis anticis 

 posticisque piceis, alis limpidis apice cinereis costa vittaque fulvis. 



Body tawny, clothed with golden hairs : head adorned with a pale tawny covering, 

 clothed beneath with yellow hairs ; a large, pitchy, shining, square spot in front of 

 the crown : eyes bronzed ; all the facets very small : sucker black : lancets and palpi 

 tawny : feelers tawny ; first and second joints beset with black hairs ; third joint black 

 towards its tip, its hom curved downward, and a little longer than the other part ; 

 compound joint black, curved upward, a little shorter than the third joint, like which 

 it is clothed with very short black hairs : abdomen obconical, much longer than the 

 chest : legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; hind-shanks dark tawny, pitchy 

 towards the tips, clothed with short black hairs ; fore-shanks and middle feet darker 

 towards the tips ; fore-feet and hind-feet pitchy : wings colourless, gray towards the 

 tips, tawny along the fore border as far as the stigma, which is brown ; a tawny streak 

 extends from the base and joins the hind border before half the length of the latter ; 

 wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny towards the base and along the fore border ; 

 poisers tawny. Length of the body 3£ lines ; of the wings 8| lines. 



Hab. — Para. 



Fbancis Walkee. 



Abt. XVI. — Description of an apparently new Lepidopterous Insect, of the Family 

 Glaucopidee, from the Upper Amazons. By Edward Newman. 



Family — Glauco pid^e. 



Genus — Myrmecopsis, Newman. 



Formicam alatam exacti simulat : antenna dimidio corporis vix longiores, dimidio 

 basali bipectinatm, deinde serratce, denique subserrata, apice gracillimcB setacem : 

 alarum anticarum cellula discoidalis profundi divisa ; alee nuda, squamis nisi 

 nervurarum nullo modo indutw : abdomen petiolatum petiolo valde restricto. 



Myrmecopsis Eumenides. 



Nigra ; ala nudes hyaline, anticarum vitta lata costali fuliginea maculam stigma- 

 toidem pulcherrime chalybeam includenti ; pedes nigri, tarsis testaceis. (Corp. 

 long. - 6 unc. Alarum dilat. 1*15 unc.) 



The superficial resemblance of this moth to a Hymenopterous insect is perfect : 

 the extremely narrow petiole divides the body into two nearly equal parts, one com- 

 posed of the head and alary segments, the other of the abdominal segments : the head 



