. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. EPANYCLES. PTERYGOPTERUS. 383 black ; legs black, the fore coxte brassy green ; abdoraeu brown, suffused with brassy green especially towards ex- tremity. Fore wing brown shot with purple; the base of costa brassy green. Hind wing fuscous slightly shot with purple; slight hyaline streaks in and Y\g.\'d\.— E]M7rijclesiviperialis,(S- \- below cell; the fold on underside of male whitish. Hah. Guatemala (C7i«mj7io;?), Godman-Salvin Coll.; Amazons, Santarem type, Ega
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. EPANYCLES. PTERYGOPTERUS. 383 black ; legs black, the fore coxte brassy green ; abdoraeu brown, suffused with brassy green especially towards ex- tremity. Fore wing brown shot with purple; the base of costa brassy green. Hind wing fuscous slightly shot with purple; slight hyaline streaks in and Y\g.\'d\.— E]M7rijclesiviperialis,(S- \- below cell; the fold on underside of male whitish. Hah. Guatemala (C7i«mj7io;?), Godman-Salvin Coll.; Amazons, Santarem type, Ega, Tapajes {Bates). Exp. 32 millim. Genus PTERYGOPTERUS. Type. Pterygoptents, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 411 (1876)... clavipennis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of liead, the 2nd joint rather broadly scaled, the 3rd short and obtuse ; antennjB long, bipectinate, with moderate branches dilated at extremity and ending in a bristle; thornx and base of abdomen clothed with thick hair ; tibiae with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with the costa arched towards apex, the termen very obliquely curved ; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6 from upper angle ; 7,8,9, 10 stalked. Hind wing of male with the termen much excised townrrls tornus, which is developed into a large pointed lobe bearing tufts of hair above and with a large tuft from base, of female much less lobed ; the cell Icmg : vein 2 iVom well before angle; 3,4 from angle; 5 curved from below middle of discocellulars; G, 7 from upper angle. A. Fore wing with large apical white patch leucomelas. B. Fore wing without apical white patch. a. Antennte with the terminal one-third orange ; wings shot with metallic green clavipennis. b. Antennas with the branches of terminal two-thirds orange; wings shot with metallic blue caruleus. 852. Pterygopterus leucomelas. Automolis leucomela, Wlk. vii. 1630 (1856); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 164. Pteri/gopterus superhus. Druce
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