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LEPIDOPODA; PSEUDOALCATHOE; PARA SE SI A. By B. Zukowsky. 
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dusting. After taking them out of the bath and the drying which lasts only for a short time, the hair on the 
thorax and abdomen as well as the fringes of the wings can be smoothened with a small soft hair-pencil. 
In the classification we have followed Junk’s Catalogue Pars 31, as was done in the African and Indo- 
Australian Faunae, too; the grouping is very natural and affords an easy perspicuity. Concerning the figures 
we have often preferred copies of good figures from Beutenmuller’s “Monograph of the Sesiidae of America" 
and Oberthur's “Etudes de Lepidopterologie comparee" to figures from nature according to damaged or badly 
discernible specimens in collections, especially since the mostly delicate insects, as we mentioned above, easily 
become oily and inconspicuous. 
1. Genus: Hmps. 
Palpi erect, reaching the frons. Proboscis present. Antennae of A ciliated, plain in the §. Middle tibiae 
hairy, hind tibiae and the two first tarsal joints densely haired. All the veins present in the forewing, 7 + 8 
stallied. Hindwing: 3 + 4 stalked, 5 absent, 6 arising close at 7. Type: L. heterogyna Hmps. from India. 
L. infera Meyr. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen violettish black; hind tibiae with violettish infera. 
black hair, an orange hair-tuft at the apex. Wings hyaline, with black veins and margins, the anterior half 
of the fore wing mixed with yellow, the costal part blackish, except a short yellow streak between 9 + 10 at 
the base, the cross-vein black. Hindwing transparent, with black veins and margins. Only 1 d known. 16 mm. 
Para, Brazil; taken in July. 
L. homotropha Meyr. (176 a). Head, thorax and abdomen dark bluish green; face and palpi white; homotropha. 
antennae dark brown; hind tibiae with dark purple hair, a whitish central spot, the anal hair mixed with orange; 
wings hyaline, with black veins and margins and dark grey fringes, the forewing in front mixed with yellowish, 
the costal area as far as the cell and vein 9 dark brownish, a very fine whitish ochreous line at vein 11, the cross¬ 
vein finely edged with reddish, hindwing hyaline, margined with black. Described according to 1 d> 14 mm. 
Brazil, Manaos, November. We figure the species according to a specimen collected by Dr. Seitz in South Brazil. 
2. Genus: PseBuloaleatlioe Le Cerf. 
Palpi normal, proboscis present, antennae finely dentate. Legs long and thin, abdomen long and deli¬ 
cate, ending in the $ into a very long and thin tail-like continuation which is scaled as in Alcathoe Harr, and 
Cryptomima Hmps. Vein 1 of the forewing short, not parted at the base, 2 + 3 from the interior angle of the 
cell. 7 + 8 on a very long stalk, 10 from the upper angle of the cell, 11 very thick, its last third united with 
10. Hindwing: 1 a present, 2 from the interior angle of the cell. 3 + 4 from the cell itself, on a short stalk, 
5 from the angle, 7 absent. Type: Ps. chatanayi Le Cerf. 
Ps. chatanayi Le Cerf (176 a). Head and face greenish black, palpi black, the third joint white beneath, chatanayi. 
Antennae yellowish orange, at the base black above, brown below. Collar and thorax blackish green with a 
bronze reflection; abdomen blackish green, the last joint with a bluish reflection outside, the tail-shaped appen¬ 
dage blackish green, of about % of the length of the abdomen. Forewing blackish green excepting the distal 
parts which are black warming into brown. Hindwing purple black, the base and costa blackish green, the 
fringes of all the wings blackish brown. Legs blackish green. 33,5 mm. Only 1 + From the Volcano of Chiriqui 
in Costa Rica, May. An entirely isolated Aegeriid resembling wasps from the genus Sir ex or also Ephemeridae. 
3. Genus: I*arasesi» Le Cerf. 
Medium-sized. The first palpal joint rather long, the second bent, the third oblique and longer than 
half of the second. Antennae relatively short and thick. Tongue well developed, eyes small. Body long, anal 
tuft like that of a Tinthia, slanting when seen from above downward. Wings transparent, vein 2 of forewing 
arising from 3 far before the interior angle of the cell. 7+8 are stalked, 10 is absent; vein 1 of the hindwing 
is obsolete, 2 + 3 arise from the same place, the posterior angle of the cell. 7 absent; besides there is a small, 
but well visible anal lobe. Type: P. cristallina Le Cerf. 
P. cristalliraa Le Cerf (176 a). Face blackish brown, white before the eyes. Palpi and antennae black, cristallina. 
Collar, thorax, abdomen and anal tuft black, the 4th segment with a line of whitish yellow scales, the 4th. 5th 
and 6th segments edged with whitish yellow. Anterior hips brownish black, mixed with yellow scales outside 
and above, femora brownish yellow, yellow inside, tibiae and tarsi yellow. (Middle and hind legs absent.) Fore- 
wing transparent, the veins, a fine marginal line and the discal vein dull brown, some scales between veins S + 9 
dingy yellowish red, the interior margin and the outside of the discal vein the same, the base of the wing black; 
hind wing transparent, the veins and marginal line dull brown, the interior margin reddish yellow from the 
middle of the anal lobe to vein 1. Beneath all the wings are dusted with a more glaring yellowish red. the 
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