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R. metaphaea Hmps. (= flavicollis Druce) (15 e) deviates from the preceding by its quite unicolorously meluphaea. 
blackish-brown fore- and hindwings. Mexico (Guerrero); Honduras. 
R. steniptera Hmps. is quite monotonously blackish-brown with very narrow and long wings, the steniptera. 
hindwings being somewhat lighter. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. British Guiana. 
R. albigutta spec. nov. (15 e) is unicolorously blackish-brown on its body and wings. The palpi, albigutta,. 
except the black terminal joint, throat and neck are orange-yellow. The forewings, being comparatively broad, 
exhibit behind the cell a white spot between the upper median vein and the 4th subcostal vein. The hindwings 
are in the disc diaphanous with broad brown veins. One $ from Peru (Cuzco, Bang-Haas). 
40. Genus: Hercocladia gen. nov. 
In the exterior it greatly resembles the Rhynchopyga- species from which the sole species is immediately 
discernible by the strong middle radial vein of the hinclwing rising above the lower middle of the cell. The 
lower radial vein stands on a long footstalk with the upper median vein, the lower median vein rises behind 
the cell-middle. All the rest like in Rhynchopyga. The genera are hardly allied to each other, and there are 
many resemblances to Hypocladia and Cercopimorpha. 
C. novicia spec. nov. (15 d) is a magnificent, most complicatedly coloured species. The body, except novicia. 
the 3 last blackish-brown abdominal rings, is of a deep vermilion; forehead blackish-brown with a metallic 
blue middle spot; palpi orange-yellow with a black terminal joint; antennae blackish-brown; collar and the 
shoulder-covers being outside blackish-brown are bordered with bluish-silvery; across the thorax and abdomen 
extends a bluish-silvery median line; with the same colour the segmental indentations are bordered, and on 
the third and fourth segments there are large lateral spots. The brown abdominal apex exhibits an orange- 
yellow lateral line and underside. Hips, middle and hind legs red; foreleg orange, anterior tibiae blackish- 
brown, outside with a red median band, the rest blackish-brown. The forewings are dark brown; at the end 
of the basal third there is a very oblique hyaline band extending from the subcosta to the submedian fold; 
the costa above it is orange-yellow; at the extremity between the middle and distal third of the costal margin 
there is an orange-yellow spot. The median vein and the base of its branches are steel-green. The blackish- 
brown hindwings exhibit a hyaline median band, the distal bordering of which on the cell-fold strongly bends 
in towards the base and which reaches the base in the direction of the inner margin; the basal half of the costal 
margin of both wings is beneath orange-yellow. -—- Described according to 2 fresh from Cuyaba (Matto 
Grosso), obtained by Bang-Haas. 
41. Genus: HypocSiaris Hmps. 
The only species with rather broad wings greatly approximates the following genus, but on the fore wings 
the upper radial vein rises below the upper cell-angle; the two lower ones stand on a very short, joint footstalk. 
On the hindwings the median veins rise on a joint footstalk, the lowest radial with the same from the lower 
cell-angle. 
H. clusia Druce (15 e). Blackish-brown; shoulders, shoulder-covers and dorsum of the first abdominal clusia. 
ring with carmine spots. On the collar, metathorax and at the sides of the abdomen there are metallic blue 
dots. Forewings yellowish-white with blackish-brown veins, in the larger basal half smoky olive-brownish, 
with a large blackish-brown apical spot. The very broad hindwings are semi-diaphanous blackish. The species 
has been described from the Amazon, but I also possess it from French Guiana. 
42. Genus: Saurita H. Schaff. 
The genus contains a number of species looking exteriorly very unlike each other; the one group com¬ 
prises little, delicate, gnat-like insects with semi-diaphanous wings of a slender structure; the other larger 
group has species being mostly provided with densely scaled wings, with a thick, disproportionate abdomen; 
others again remind us of the genus Macrocneme. Common to all are the erect palpi, doubly (in the <$ very 
long-)combed antennae. The cell of the hindwing is long; the lower median and lower radial vein rise from 
its lower angle, or they are shortly petioied; the upper median vein, in case it be present, from the upper angle 
of the cell, close in front of the border. 
S. cardinalis Rothsch. (15 e). This little species does not resemble any other: head, antennae and cardinalis. 
abdomen are bluish-black, like the distal two thirds of the wings; the basal third of the wings and the vertex 
and thorax are carmine. The legs are blackish-brown. Costa Rica. 
