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dot on each side in front, and two blue stripes on the disk. Wings 

 limpid, bordered with black. Fore wings black at the base with a 

 blue tinge; this black forms an angle, and extends slightly obliquely 

 and for a greater length than in G. sanguiflua before it joins the 

 hind border. Abdomen white beneath the contracted part, without 

 dorsal spots ; tip clothed with reddish orange hairs. Length of the 

 body 6—7 lines; of the wings 14 — 16 lines. 



a, b. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 

 c. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



89. Glaucopis Ophion. 



Mas. Atra, gracilis ; caput, thorax anticus, vittce duce et scutellum 

 cyanea ; abdomen obclavatum, apicem versus cyaneum, apice 

 rufo-hirtum, basi lateribusque albidis ; alee hyaline, sat lata, 

 subluridce, basi atrcs. 



Fcem. Nigra; caput albo bimaculatum ; thoracis latera sordide 

 alba ; abdomen viride, basi subtus maculisque lateralibus albis, 

 apice rufo nigroque hirtum ; alee limpidce. 



Glaucopis Ophion, MSS. 



Male. Deep black, slender. Head dark blue. Antennae pecti- 

 nated to full three-fourths of the length. Fore part of thorax, two 

 stripes and scutellum dark blue. Wings hyaline, rather broad, with 

 a slight lurid tinge, deep black at the base; veins black, testaceous 

 towards the base ; transverse veinlets at the tip of the discal areolet 

 hardly forming an angle ; no trace of the discal fold ; a very slender 

 black border about the tips and behind. Abdomen whitish on each 

 side and beneath at the base where it is compressed, slightly widen- 

 ing from thence to the tip which is clothed with bright red hairs, 

 dark blue above near the tip. Legs slender ; spurs of the bind tibiae 

 small. «, 



Black. Head with two white spots in front. Palpi white 

 beneath. Thorax dingy white along each side. Wings limpid. 

 Abdomen green, white beneath and with a row of white spots along 

 each side ; tip clothed with red hairs and on the middle above with 

 black hairs. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a, b. Sta. Carthagena, Brazil. From M. Becker's collection. 

 c. Venezuela. From M. Becker's collection. 



