cucadma. 
hnitans. 
basalts. 
pilthea. 
cocho. 
ehimaera. 
146 LOXOMIMA; PSEUDOSPHENOPTERA; PSETJDOPOMPILIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
L. cucadma Druce (21 a) resembles Cacostcitia ossa (22 c): bluish-black, the body spotted and striped 
white. Wings at the bases striped metallic blue; the forewings exhibit a hyaline spot below the cell and a post- 
discal band consisting of 4 spots, the hindwings two narrow hyaline spots below and behind the cell. Panama. 
111. Genus: Loxomima gen. nov. 
Exteriorly looking like a Loxophlebia (comp. p. 61 to 64). Palpi rising upwards so long that the middle 
joint already projects beyond the forehead. Antennae in the $ short-combed, in the terminal third serrate. 
Large ventral valve present. On the forewings the upper median vein rises before the lower cell-angle, the 
lower radial vein from it, and the middle one separated from it above it; the upper radial vein from below the 
upper cell-angle. The hindwings similar as in Leucopleura. The transverse vein extremely oblique, and the 
lower half of the cell, therefore, very narrow and short; the middle radial vein, being only feebly developed, 
rises rather close above the lower cell-angle; the lower one stands on a long pedicle with the lower median vein, 
from which the upper one rises close before the margin; the upper radial vein and the subcostal come from the 
upper cell-angle. Only one species. 
L. imitans spec. nov. looks almost like Heliura sanguipalpia (24 g), but it differs far from it. Body 
above unicolorously black, posteriorly with a slight blue lustre. Large spots on the sides of the collar and the 
hair of the anal segment carmine. The hips and the 3 first ventral segments are white. Wings hyaline; veins, 
margins, apical and inner-angular spots black. Expanse of wings: 22 mm. Sa. Catharina (Joinville). Type 
in Coll. Draudt. 
112. Genus: PseudospSienoptera Bltr. 
The abdomen is somewhat thinner towards the base, but not strangulated, and shows a feeble cover 
of hair on the sides of the last segments. The forewings are long and narrow in the 9, the 1st median vein 
rises from the lower cell-angle, the lower radial veins from it, the uppermost subcostal from the cell; on the 
hindwings the lower median vein rises far from the lower cell-angle, the upper one from it shortly before the 
margin; both the lower radials from the cell-corner, the upper one and the subcostal being pedicelled. We 
include here ehimaera, cocho and pitthea having been described as Gymnelia, since Dr. Staudinger received 
P. basalis and pitthea in copula from different collectors, so that, therefore, the latter probably represents the 
<$ of basalis of which only $9 are known. In the accordingly, the hindwings would be stunted to a small, 
triangular rudiment, the veins of which connot be quite accurately ascertained, owing to this stunted growth. 
P. basalis Wkr. (= lanceolatus Btlr.) (22 a) 9 : has a black body, being intermixed with white hair 
on the forehead, vertex and thorax, and spotted metallic blue on the collar, metathorax, sides of the thorax 
and legs; the abdomen exhibits on the first segment two white spots and dorsal and subdorsal streaks of metallic 
blue. The wings are suffused with metallic blue and exhibit at the base a series of hyaline stripes. — pitthea 
Druce (22 a) d 1 : has white forehips, the body being otherwise similar. The forewings are hyaline with a black 
border, the very rudimentary hindwings being black, on the under surface with metallic blue spots. Peru, 
Amazon. 
P. cocho Schaus (22 a) of which only are known, differs from pitthea chiefly by black forehips 
being laterally spotted blue, the hindhips being spotted white and yellow; collar and shoulder-covers are spotted 
white. The species varies greatly in the extent of the hyaline spots on the forewing: the wings may, like in 
the figured specimen, be entirely hyaline except the black border, they may also turn more or less black towards 
the margin, so that there only remain small hyaline spots at the base; in the latter case there appear metallic 
blue spots on the wing (= chianaeral)- The hindwings are likewise stunted to a black rudiment. Peru; Sao 
Paulo. 
G. ehimaera Bothsch. (22 a) is described according to a single $ from Peru and has a black body with 
metallic bluish-green spots, the forehead being grey. The black, distally brownish forewings are spotted metallic 
blue and exhibit small hyaline spots in and below the base of the cell. The hindwings are reduced to a hair-tuft 
of about 2 mm length. 
113. Genus : Pseudopompilisi limps. 
Only one ichneumonid-like species. The first palpal joint is long-haired like a beard. Abdomen at 
the base somewhat strangulated, at the first segment with lateral tubercles, posteriorly tapering off with scant 
lateral hair. On the forewings the lower radial veins stand on a long pedicle, on the hindwings the lower radial 
vein is absent; the upper median vein and the middle radial rise from the lower cell-angle, the upper radial 
and the subcostal vein are unpetioled. 
