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have discovered his error, and to have nhifted the name Abrochia
to my new genus Sphecosoma.
Genus SPHECOSOMA, n. gen.
Abrochia (part), Hmich-Schiiier.
This is, I believe, the Abrochia of the ' Correspondenz-Blatt,'
but not of the ' hussereuropaische Ychmetterlinge ;' it closely
resembles Pmdmphex, but differs from it in the simple Euchro-
mioid neuration of the secondaries. Type, S. fasciolata, n. sp.
1. SPHECOSOMA FABCIOLATUY, n. spa
Body sulphur-yellow ; frons white, with a central grey spot ; a transverxe
line or crest and another at back of head black ; antennse with
basal half blackish, apical half orange, apex blackish; palpi golden
yellow ; collar with a black band hehind ; pterygodes margined with
black ; thorax with a black central longitudinnl line and a streak on
each side of it close to the pterygodes, a transverse line at back of
thorax and the inner edges of the glandular drums black j all the segments
banded with black, first segment with three longitudinal black
lines ; wings whitish hyaline, veins and outer margin slenderly black;
costal and interno-basal areoles of primaries orange ; body below
pale sulphur-yellow; legs orange, femora and tibiae with a black
streak above ; abdomen with an apparently pale cream-coloured waxlike
sheath over basal segments, edged behind with black : expanse
of wings 25 niillims.
Santa Martha (Bouchard). Type, B.M.
2. s. rRCTATUM=PSeudOSpheX arctata, Walker, Lep. Het. suppl. i.
p. 95.
Ega (Bates). Type, B.M.
3. S. TESTACEUM = Olaucopis (Pseudoaphex) testacea, Walker, Lep.
Het.i. p. 196.
Demerara. 5~ B.M.
Genus LOXOPHLEBIA, n. gen. P1. XXVII. fig. 14.
Allied to the preceding genus, but larger, the outer margin of
the primaries much huger, the discocellulars forming an oblique
line ; the secondaries less than half the length of the primaries,
the abdomen very slightly contracted at the base.
Type, L. uepwiu, Butler.
1. LOXOPHLEBIA VESPARIS= Poecilosoma vesparis, Butkr, Ann. 4
Mag. S. 4. vol. xu. p. 327.
Muasampilla, Peru (Whitely). Type, B.M.