17. PAEALTPIA. 19. SERIOCERA. 33 



17. PAKALYPIA. 



Antennas short, 8- jointed, thickened beyond the middle, third 

 joint longest ; head, thorax, and abdomen shaped nearly as in Selan- 

 dria ; legs unarmed, moderately long and thick. "Wings with one 

 marginal (appendiculate) and four submarginal cells, the second re- 

 ceiving the first recurrent nervure in the middle, and the second 

 nervure received at the juncture of the second and third cells ; no 

 second anal vein or lanceolate cell : hind wings with one middle 

 cell. 



A genus of doubtful position, perhaps allied to Cephalocera, but 

 with some resemblance to Perreyia. 



1. Paralypia picipes. 



(Plate II. fig. 17.) 



Exp. al. 5 lin., long. corp. 2|- lin. 



Black ; thorax testaceous, with a black spot in front, and the 

 scutellum black ; pectus paler, black in the middle ; first segment 

 of abdomen bordered behind with white above ; legs piceous. Wings 

 hyaline ; fore wings smoky at base and tip. 



Hab. Amazons. 



a. 2 • (Type of species.) Santarem. H. W. Bates, Esq. 



Subfamily II. HYLOTOMINiE. 



18. BLASTICOTOMA. 



Blasticotoma, King, Jahrb. d. Imectenkunde, i. p. 251 (1834). 



1. Blasticotoma filiceti. 



Blasticotoma filiceti, Klug, Jahrb. d. Insectenkunde, i. p. 251, pi. ii. 

 fig. 9, / (1834). 



Hab. Germany. 



a. 2 • Germany. J. F. Buthe. 



19. SERICOCERA. 



Sericocera, Brulle, Hym. iv. p. 669 (1846). 



1. Sericocera edwardsii. 



Sericocera edwardsii, Cress. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. viii. p. 2 

 (1880). 



Hab. Mexico. 



