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HYPATIA; PSILOPLEURA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
gentilicia. 
lycone. 
endoleuca. 
melita. 
lugens. 
prometina. 
caerulea. 
ruatana. 
delecta. 
melaleuca. 
sanguinea. 
H. gentilicia Schaus. Forehead dark brown with metallic blue scales; vertex, collar and thorax red. 
Antennae and abdomen black, the last segments with a blue lustre. Under surface and legs brown. Wings 
dark brown, at the base of the costa and in the sub median area with red spots; hindwing below the cell blackish. 
Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Costa Rica. 
H. lycone Druce (15 b). Body blackish-brown with a slight purple-blue lustre. On the shoulder- 
covers and the dorsum of the first abdominal segment carmine spots. Forewings semi-diaphanous blackish- 
brown, veins darker. Hindwings light grey diaphanous. Mexico (Orizaba, Misantla, May and August), Costa 
Rica, Panama. 
H. endoleuca Dogn. (15 b) greatly resembles the preceding, though it is considerably larger, the wings 
being of a deeper and purer dull black colour, and with a much more extensive red transverse band on the 
first abdominal segment. The body is much more abundantly spotted metallic green, of the same colour are 
the hips. At the base of the costa on the forewing there is yet a red spot. From Saurita diffusa being coloured 
exactly the same it merely differs by its narrower wings and the pendent palpi. Colombia. 
H. melita Druce likewise resembles the two preceding species, being as large as endoleuca. Body and 
wings unicolorously blackish-brown, the sides and last rings of the abdomen of a brilliant metallic bluish-green, 
underneath brownish white; only a small spot on the metathorax is carmine. Ecuador.' 
H. lugens Jones is quite unicolorously blackish-brown. Posterior tarsi for the greatest part and in 
the $ the forehips white. Expanse of wings: 28 mm, ^ 32 mm. Brazil (Sao Paulo). 
H. prometina Druce (15 b). Brownish-black; a line behind the eyes, stripes on the shoulder-covers 
and abdominal sides orange-yellow. Wings semi-diaphanous blackish-brown with an orange stripe at the base 
of the costa. Mexico (Vera Cruz). 
H. caerulea Druce (15 b) is unicolorously deep ultramarine blue. Collar and borders of the shoulder- 
covers carmine. Ecuador. 
H. ruatana Druce (15b). Blackish-brown; base of palpi, vertex and hindhead, collar and shoulder-covers 
orange. Hips whitish. The wings are unicolorously blackish-brown. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Honduras. 
37. Genus: Hypatia Kirby. 
Rather near to the preceding genus, from which it differs by erect palpi, the middle radial vein rising 
from above the lower cell-angle, whereas the upper one rises from below the upper cell-angle. On the hindwing 
the first median vein is present and rises close in front of the margin. 
H. delecta Btlr. (= astyoche Wkr.) (15 b). Head, collar and abdomen bluish-black, thorax orange. 
Forehead, dots on the shoulders, forehips, dorsal and lateral stripes on the abdomen and a broad middle stripe 
on the venter are white. Wings hyaline with fine black veins and a narrow costal margin. Proximal margin 
and apical spot broadly black, the latter reaching the cell above the middle radial. Hindwings black, in the 
cell-end a white spot. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Para. 
H. melaleuca Wkr. (16 b) resembles the preceding, but all the orange colouring is absent, but instead 
there are white dots on the collar and thorax. Para. 
38. Genus: Hsilopleura Hmps. 
Some medium-sized species with quite dark or hyaline-spotted, long, narrow wings. The first median vein 
of the forewing rises near the cell-angle, both the lower radial veins from the cell-angle, the upper one from below 
the upper cell-corner. On the hindwing the lower median and lower radial veins rise from the lower cell-angle 
or on quite a short footstalk; the first median vein and the middle radial are absent. The antennae of the $ 
are provided with rather long comb-like teeth. 
P. sanguinea Jones. Head blackish-brown; collar brown, bordered with silvery white; thorax brown, 
anteriorly intermixed with carmine and single white scales. Shoulder-covers inside and anteriorly broadly 
bordered with carmine. Hips and abdomen carmine. The first ring brown, laterally with a red and white spot, 
the other rings show a brown median stripe being lighter in the middle; the rings 4 to 6 exhibit silvery white 
subdorsal spots. Wings yellowish, diaphanous, suffused by blackish; base black, behind it a yellow subcostal 
stripe; at the cell-end there is a large yellow spot extending from the costa as far as the rise of the median 
veins, outside and inside shaded with black. Hindwings from the costa to the median fold black, from there 
as far as the inner angle hyaline with a black border. Expanse of wings: $ 20 mm, $ 22 mm. Brazil (Castro, 
Parana). 
