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SCEPSIS; PROPYRIA. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
apicalis. 
fulvicollis. 
pallens. 
packardi. 
cocklei. 
wrighti. 
gravis. 
discopuncta 
subhyalina. 
schausi. 
ptychoglene. 
normani. 
ockendeni. 
nigrirufa. 
C. apicalis Schaus. Antennae black; palpi black, at the base ochreous-yellow. Forehead black. Hind- 
head and thorax ochreous-yellow with a black median line. Abdomen above and beneath black, at the sides 
broadly ochreous-yellow. Forewings of a brilliant ochreous-yellow; a broad, bluish-black, antemedian spot 
extends from below the costal margin to the inner-marginal vein; at the apex an oblong, bluish-black spot. 
Proximal margin and the adjoining veins orange. Hindwings yellowish, thinly scaled, apex and proximal angle 
blackish. Expanse of wings: 25 mm. Cuba. 
150. Genus: Scepsis Wkr. 
Very near to the genus Ctenucha from which it differs by the palpi being somewhat shorter with a 
straightly porrect terminal joint, and by the long, narrow wings; the shaft of the antennae in the middle a little 
thicker. 
S. fulvicollis Hubn. (= semidiaphana Harr.) (26 a) has an orange-yellow palpal base, vertex and collar, 
the abdomen being bluish-black. The long extended forewings are brown, the hyaline hindwings have a broad, 
bluish-grey border. United States. — In the form pallens Hy. Edvo. the orange-yellow parts on the head and 
thorax are yellow. 
S. packardi Grote (= mathewi Hy. Ediv.) deviates from the preceding by browner forewings and 
the pale yellow colour of the hindliead extending anteriorly as far as between the antennae. United States. — 
v. cocklei Dyar. In British Colombia there flies a local race, the colouring of which is more like that- of fulvicollis: 
forewings of a duller blackish, in the disc diaphanous. 
S. wrighti Stretch (26 b) deviates from the preceding by the blackish-brown colour of its body, the 
head being all black, the collar and shoulders entirely pale yellow, in f. gravis Hy. Edio. orange. California. 
S. discopuncta Hmps. Body pale ochreous-yellowish, mixed with blackish-brown, vertex striped 
black, so is the distal margin of the shoulder-covers and the thorax; neck orange. Abdomen above blackish, 
except the last ochreous rings. Forewings pale ochreous-yellow with black stripes in the base of the cell and 
above the submedian fold, as well as black dots in the middle of the cell, in the corners of the cell, and behind 
the cell; postmedian and antemarginal rows of dots being confluent to streaks towards the costa. Hindwings 
transparent, brownish towards the margin. Expanse of wings: 48 mm. Bolivia. 
S. subhyalina Hmps. Head white, spotted black on the forehead and vertex; the rest of the body 
is pale ochreous-yellow, on the metathorax and at the sides of the abdomen spotted black. Forewings diaphanous 
ochreous-yellowish with dark, faded discal and antemarginal lines. Hindwings more whitish. Expanse of 
wings: 40 mm. Bolivia. 
151. Genus: I*ropyrla Hmps. 
Small Lythosid-like species with short palpi being turned downward, the antennae being serrate- 
clentate in the <$. The lower and middle radial veins of the forewing stand on a long pedicle, the upper one 
rises below the upper cell-angle; on the hinclwing the upper median vein and the middle radial are pedicelled, 
the lower radial being absent. 
P. schausi Dyar (= fulgens Neum. & Dyar) has a black head and abdomen, whilst the collar and 
thorax are carmine. Forewing carmine with a black distal margin occupying one fifth of the length of the 
wing. Hindwing black with a red basal half of the costal margin. New Mexico; Arizona. 
P. ptychoglene Hmps. { — aequalis Druce) (26 c). Body black with red shoulder-covers. The forewings 
are scarlet with a black distal margin which grows broader towards the proximal margin and extends almost 
to the base, extending towards the costal margin as a fine costal stripe to about the centre of the wing. The 
hindwings are black, the basal two thirds of the costal margin scarlet. Found in Mexico and Guatemala. 
P. normani Schaus. Body black, shoulders carmine. Forewings leaden black with a broad red stripe 
from the base of the costa along above the submedian, growing narrower towards the apex; apical third of tire 
costal margin narrowly black. Hindwing purple black, at the costa some red. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. 
Costa Rica. 
P. ockendeni Bothsch. Head and thorax timber-coloured, chest whitish; abdomen black with sub¬ 
dorsal rows of orange-red spots. Forewings reddish timber-coloured; apical fourth, a discal spot, and the proxi¬ 
mal margin purple brown. Hindwings orange-scarlet with a black margin, at the proximal margin and anal 
angle broader. Length of forewings: 15 mm. Peru. 
P. nigrirufa Bothsch. Head and thorax sooty brown, abdomen black. Forewings timber-coloured. 
Hindwing in the basal half sooty black, in the apical half carmine, bordered with black. Length of forewings: 
16 mm. Peru. 
