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EPANYCLES; PTERYGOPTERUS. By Dr. M. Deauet. 
yla u copis. 
obsolete. 
carmania. 
rubrothorax. 
brunnea. 
imperialis. 
leucomelas. 
flavicornis. 
clavipennis. 
caeruleus. 
T. glaucopis Fldr. (20 a) is a larger, well recognizable species with a blackish body; hindhead and 
collar spotted carmine; anterior side of the palpi, forehead, thorax, shoulder-covers and base of the femora 
spotted white. The abdomen shows large, white, lateral and ventral spots. The blackish-brown forewings 
are of a lighter whitish behind the cell, with black veins, the hind wings hyaline with a blackish-blue border. 
Distributed from French Guiana to the Amazon District and not rare. — In a male example from Colombia 
(Coll. Seitz) from the Rio Dagua the white lateral spots on the abdomen are absent altogether: f. obsoleta 
form. nov. 
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T. carmania Bruce (20 a). Black; anterior side of the palpi, sides of the forehead, and forehips white; 
abdomen beneath almost as far as the apex white. Forewings with 2 hyaline stripes in the cell, one below it 
and 3 more between the lower median and radial vein. Hindwings hyaline with a black border. Expanse of 
wings: 28 mm. Ecuador. 
T. rubrothorax Rothsch. differs from carmania by the entirely carmine thorax, much smaller and 
entirely black hindwings with a white costal base. Length of forewings: 11 mm. Amazon. 
T. brunnea Hmps. The body is dull red-brown, in the neck orange. The abdomen exhibits, from 
the 5th to 7th rings, orange subdorsal spots and white sublateral stripes. The red-brown forewings exhibit 
a discal dot on the dark middle band being angled at the lower cell-end and before the border a light dentate 
line. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Argentina. 
87. Genus: Epaiiycles Btlr. 
Shaft of antennae in the middle somewhat thickened. The first radial and subcostal vein of the hindwing 
petioled, the middle radial rising from above the lower cell-angle; the proximal margin of the <$ beneath shows 
a long hair-tuft. On the forewings the upper median and' the lower radial veins rise from the lower cell-angle, 
the 1st radial vein from the upper angle, being strongly bent downward. Only one rather dark species: 
E. imperialis Wkr. (20 a). The forewings are brown with a purple violet lustre, at the base of the 
costal margin a brassy-green spot; hindwings grey, in the disc diaphanous. The body is blackish-brown with 
brassy-green spots particularly towards the anus. Known from Guatemala, Venezuela, Guiana, Amazon (Para) 
and Peru. 
88. Genus: Pterygopterns Btlr. 
Only few large, dark-coloured species, the with a long-extended proximal angle of the hindwings, 
and long hair-tufts at the same place. The cell of the hindwing is long, the lower median vein rises afar from 
the cell-angle, the upper median and lower radial vein from its lower corner, the middle radial from below the 
middle of the discocellular. 
P. leucomelas Wkr. (= superbus Druce) (20 a) is a magnificent, large species, which is unmistakable 
by the large, white apical spot being margined by black, whereby it most strikingly copies large Ichneumonids. 
On the forewing, being otherwise deep velvety-black, turning somewhat brownish towards the margin, the 
metallic blue median vein is very prominent; at the base, above vein 1, there is besides a blue spot; the hindwings 
are blackish-blue, at the apex metallic blue. Body bluish-black; tips of antennae orange. Widely distributed 
from Panama, Guiana, Colombia (Muzo) as far as Brazil (Para). 
P. flavicornis Kaye.. This species having been described according to a $, is said to differ from clavi¬ 
pennis only by its entirely orange-yellow antennae, as well as by the rounder contours of the hindwings, 
the proximal angle not being extended. It may be the $ of clavipennis which has not become known hitherto. 
British Guiana. 
P. clavipennis Btlr. differs from caeruleus by the antennae being orange-yellow only in the terminal 
third, and by the abdomen exhibiting a metallic green lustre at the base and sides. Forewings bluish-black, 
at the costal margin, in the inner half of the proximal margin and below the cell-end greenish, in the marginal 
area brown, at the base and at the end of the median, and at the base of the inner-marginal vein metallic green. 
Hindwings bluish-black, costa and veins metallic green. Expanse of wings: 48 mm. Brazil. 
P. caeruleus Hmps. (= clavipennis Druce) (20 a) is a large, blackish-blue species with an intense, 
bronze-brown lustre on the forewings, a metallic blue spot at the base and a faintly blue median. On the under 
surface the veins are suffused by blue. Antennae black, the two terminal thirds orange. Head, metathorax, 
legs and abdomen with metallic blue spots. Apparently a rare species, having hitherto only been found in Mexico 
(Jalapa, Orizaba) in October. 
