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ICHNEUMENOPTERA; LEPTAEGERIA. By B. Zukowsky. 
xanthonym¬ 
pha. 
dasyproctos. 
votaria. 
scarabitis. 
caeruleifas- 
cia. 
ftavocasta- 
nea. 
axiomnemo- 
neuta. 
C. xanthonympha Meyr. Head and thorax yellow. Face laterally white. Palpi yellow. Antennae black, 
yellow below. Abdomen yellow, segments black without the margins. Anal tuft orange with a black central 
spot. Wings hyaline, veins black, fringe yellowish, with brownish basal and apical shadows; forewing with a 
black costal streak, a yellowish anal margin, a black cross-vein distally edged with yellow, a black distal margin, 
yellow before it, traversed by the dark veins. Costal margin of hindwing yellow, the following veins yellow, 
cross-vein colourless. Hind tibiae yellow with a black lower apical spot, tarsi blackish with yellow scales at 
the end of the 1st joint. 17 mm. Para, Brazil. June. 1 $. 
C. dasyproctos sp. n. (178 d) is allied to xanthonympha Meyr. Antennae black, pale yellow below, base 
intensely yellow, a metallic violettish blue gloss between. Palpi, pectus and anterior coxae yellow; edged white 
before the eyes. Head and thorax black, the latter with three yellow longitudinal stripes. Abdomen above 
and beneath pale golden yellow, warming into brownish, darker at the base; the last joints are fusiformly com¬ 
pressed, passing over into the broad and strong dingy yellow anal tuft which, seen from the side, appears to 
be obliquely cut off from in front to behind. Legs quite yellow. The wings as in xanthonympha , the distal area 
of the forewing slightly, but especially the wedge-area from the discal vein towards the base provided with 
a distinct dark shadow. 20 mm. Brazil, Bahia. Type: Berlin Zool. Museum. 
C. votaria Meyr. Head and thorax greenish blue, iridescent. Face and orbita white. Palpi yellowish, 
dark brownish at the end. Antennae purple black. Abdomen dark indigo blue, base whitish, posterior margins 
of segments 5 and 7, sometimes also of 6, white, all the segments beneath more or less margined with white, 
anal tuft deep purple, mixed with white at the beginning on each side. Wings hyaline, veins black, fringe dark 
brown, cross-vein purple black, the rather broad distal margin also purple black. Hindwing with a colourless 
cross-vein, a narrow dark brown streak growing thicker towards the apex. Fore wing beneath speckled whitish 
at the apical spot. Para, Brazil. January, June, July. Only t$C are known. 
C. scarabitis Meyr. (178 e). Head and thorax dark blue, collar yellow. Palpi black, whitish in front. 
Antennae black. Abdomen blackish green, anal tuft dark blue. Wings hyaline, veins black, fringe dark brown. 
Hindwing with black veins and margins, cross-vein colourless. 14 mm. 1 <J. Peru, Jurimaguas. March. 
13. Genus: IcliiieumcBioptera Bmps. 
Palpi relatively short and straight. Antennae long and plain. Legs bare. Abdomen longer than in 
Conopia. Forewing without vein 2, the fork of 7 and 8 is shorter. Veins 3 and 4 of hindwing stalked, 6 arises near 
the upper angle of the cell. On the whole very similar to Conopia , but the abdomen and anal tuft are always 
longer. Type: I. auripes Bmps. (Vol. X, pi. 94 d) from Asia. 
1. caeruleifascia Rothsch. (178 e). Legs steel-blue, anterior tarsi white, hair-tufts of the posterior tibiae 
and the first half of the tarsi steel-blue, edged with white. Palpi white. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen 
steel-blue, discal band bright metallic blue. Hindwing whitish hyaline, margins and a broad discocellular spot 
steel-blue. 25 mm. Marcapata (Eastern Peru). 1200 m. 
14. Genus: I^eptaegeria Le Cerf. 
The 2nd and 3rd joints of the palpi very long. Antennae thick and short, finely and shortly dentate. 
Proboscis normally developed. Body long, cylindrical. Legs long and neat, not with projecting hair. Anal 
tuft composed of two straight and oblong brushes. Forewing long and narrow, veins 2 and 3 are close together 
at their origin, 7 and 8 are stalked on half their length. Hindwing oval, without a very prominent anal lobe. 
Veins 3 and 4 on a short stalk, 7 absent. Type: L. flavocastanea Le Cerf. 
L. flavocastanea Le Cerf (178 e). Head brown, bright, mixed with yellow in front, edged with white 
around the eyes. Palpi yellow with a small black spot at the base. Antennae blackish brown, reddish yellow 
near the base below. Collar brownish bronze. Thorax chestnut brown, patagia yellow, metathorax yellow 
above and beneath. Abdomen chestnut brown, darker towards the end, turning almost blackish bronze, 
1st segment broadly yellow, whitish beneath. Anal tuft dark. Legs quite yellow except the hind tibiae which 
exhibit one red-brown spot each at the end. Fore wing transparent, the margins, veins and discal vein brown¬ 
ish bronze, the distal area dusted with the same colour. Hindwing transparent, veins and margins brownish 
bronze, fringes of all the wings greyish brown. 22 mm. Bolivia: Cochabamba. Only 1 $ is known. 
L. axiomneinoneuta sp. n. (178 e). Antennae dark rusty brown. Head, thorax and abdomen deep 
brownish black, almost black. Palpi light yellowish grey, the 2nd joint below with light grey hair. Legs from 
light ochreous to golden yellow, the coxae blackish brown, the hind tibiae with a small faded dark brown spot 
outside at the end. The penultimate abdominal segment exhibits a fine silvery grey ring continued beneath in 
a broad spot. Anal tuft enormously developed; seen from the side, it is obliquely cut off from above to below; 
with grey hair in the middle, otherwise brownish black, of more than half the length of the abdomen. Forewing 
