. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 520 SYNTOJllD^. lateral orange streaks, and the ventral surface orange except on terminal segments. Fore wing with hlack streak on inner margin not reaching base or termen ; some fuscous suffusion on terminal area, more prominent on underside, and usually a more or less deve- loped short terminal black streak between veins 4 and 5. Hind wing semihyaliue, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, most widely towards apex and toruus. Hah. Panama, 3 S, type, Godman-Salvin Coll, Exp. 30-32 millim. Genus SCEPSIS. Type. Scepsis, Wlk.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 520 SYNTOJllD^. lateral orange streaks, and the ventral surface orange except on terminal segments. Fore wing with hlack streak on inner margin not reaching base or termen ; some fuscous suffusion on terminal area, more prominent on underside, and usually a more or less deve- loped short terminal black streak between veins 4 and 5. Hind wing semihyaliue, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, most widely towards apex and toruus. Hah. Panama, 3 S, type, Godman-Salvin Coll, Exp. 30-32 millim. Genus SCEPSIS. Type. Scepsis, Wlk. ii. 285 (1854) fuhncollis. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned and not reaching yertex of head, the 3rd joint porrect; antenna; bipectinatc, with short branches dilated at extremity, the shaft somewhat dilated at middle, especially in female ; tibite with the spurs short. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex somewhat acumi- nate and the outer margin oblique ; -vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle or separate ; 6 from well below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9,10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell long; vein 2 from long before angle; 3 from before angle; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. First joint of jDalpi, throat, and back of head yellow fulvicoUis. B. Palpi, throat, and back of head black wrighti. 1148. Scepsis fulvicoUis. Glaucopis fulvicoUis, Hiibn. Samml. ex. Schmett. i. (1827); Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 21, pi. 1. f. 9 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 175. Glaucopis semidiaphana, Harris, Am. J. Sci. xxxvi. p. 318 (1839;. Scepsis packardii, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iv. p. 318 (1865). Sce2:isis maithewi, H. Edw. Proc. Calif. Acad. v. p. 184 (1874); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 175. Scepsis fallens, H. Edw. Ent. Am. ii. p. 8 (1886). Head, thorax, and abdomen blue-black ; proboscis, 1st joint of palpi, back of head, tegulae, stripes on shoulders, and throat orange. Fore wing fuscous black or brown with a bluish tinge; the costa and ci
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