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Group 3. SCEPSIS. 



Corpus cylindricum, longum, gracile, vix metallicum. Palpi 

 oblique ascendentes, capite uon Ion gi ores ; articulus 2us lo multo 

 longior; 3us obtusus, breviconicus, 2i triente brevior. Proboscis 

 thorace paullo longior. Antennae corpore multo breviores, maris 

 mediocriter pectinatae, foeminae subpectinatae. Alag perangustse, 

 elongato-trigonae ; anticag postice vix angulatae. Abdomen alas 

 posticas plus ejus dimidio superans. Pedes gracillimi ; tibiae 

 antica3 subtus dentatae ; posticas calcaribus quatuor minimis. 



Body cylindrical, long, slender, slightly hairy, hardly metallic. 

 Palpi inclined obliquely upward, not longer than the head ; second 

 joint much longer than the first ; third obtuse, slightly conical, not 

 one-third of the length of the second. Proboscis a little longer 

 than the thorax. Antennae very much shorter than the body, mo- 

 derately pectinated in the male, very slightly pectinated in the 

 female. Wings long, very narrow, elongate-trigonate. Fore wings 

 opaque, hardly angular by the tips of the hind wings ; veinlets at the 

 tip of the discal areolet forming angles, discal fold distinct through- 

 out ; the four inferior veins distinct ; two superior veins, the second 

 forked at much beyond half its length. Hind wings hyaline in the 

 disk. Abdomen extending for a little more than half its length be- 

 yond the hind wings. Legs very slender, rather long ; fore tibiae of 

 the male dentate beneath ; hind tibiae with four very small spurs. 



5. Ctenucha fulvicollis. 



Schistacea ; caput et antenna nigra ; palpi basi, prothorax, pec- 

 torisque mar go anticus ochracea ; alee subacutce, sat angusice ; 

 anticce fusco-schistacece, mar gine co stall cervino ; posticce apud 

 medium semidiaphance. Long. alar. 15 — 16 lin. 



Glaucopis unicolor fulvicollis, H'ubn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. 1. 



hep. ii. Spking. i. Pap. iii. Glaucopis A. Unicolores B. 

 Glaucopis (Ctenucha) seraidiaphana, Harris, Descript. Cat. N. 



Amer. Sphin. 38, 4. 



Middle and Southern United States. 



a — e. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, 



Esq. 

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