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black ; legs black, the fore coxte brassy green ; abdoraeu brown, 



suffused with brassy green 

 especially towards ex- 

 tremity. Fore wing brown 

 shot with purple ; the 

 base of costa brassy green. 

 Hind wing fuscous slightly 

 shot with purple ; slight 

 hyaline streaks in and 

 Y\g.\'d\.— E]M7rijclesiviperialis,(S- \- below cell; the fold on 



underside of male whitish. 

 Hah. Guatemala ( C7i«mj7io;?), Godman-Salvin Coll.; Amazons, 



Santarem type, Ega, Tapajes {Bates). Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus PTERYGOPTERUS. 



Type. 

 Pterygoptents, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 411 (1876). . . clavipennis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of liead, the 2nd joint 

 rather broadly scaled, the 3rd short and obtuse ; antennjB long, bipectinate, with 

 moderate branches dilated at extremity and ending in a bristle; thornx and 

 base of abdomen clothed with thick hair ; tibiae with the spurs moderate. 

 Fore wing with the costa arched towards apex, the termen very obliquely 

 curved ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 7,8,9, 10 stalked. Hind wing of male with the termen 

 much excised townrrls tornus, which is developed into a large pointed lobe 

 bearing tufts of hair above and with a large tuft from base, of female much 

 less lobed ; the cell Icmg : vein 2 iVom well before angle; 3,4 from angle; 

 5 curved from below middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Fore wing with large apical white patch leucomelas. 



B. Fore wing without apical white patch. 



a. Antennte with the terminal one-third orange ; wings shot 



with metallic green clavipennis. 



b. Antennas with the branches of terminal two-thirds orange ; 



wings shot with metallic blue caruleus. 



852. Pterygopterus leucomelas. 



Automolis leucomela, Wlk. vii. 1630 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 164. 

 Pteri/gopterus superhus. Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 67, pi. 8. f. 7 

 (1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 158. 



(S . Blue-black ; antennae orange at tips ; hind coxae with whitish 

 patches ; head and abdomen suffused in parts with metallic blue. 

 Fore wing with slight patches of metallic blue at base of vein 1 and 

 extremity of median nervure ; a large apical white patch leaving 

 the cilia black ; the terminal area irregularly brown. Hind wing 

 blue-black, with the apex metallic blue. 



Hab. Panama, typo superhus in Coll. Staudinger ; Bkazil, Up. 

 Amazons, 1 S , Para (Bates), typef in Mus. Oxon. Ea^j^. d2 millim. 



