Cat. Lep. Ph. Brit. Mus. Vol. 1:

852. Pterygopterus leucomelas.
Automolis le1tcomela, Wlk. vii. 163G (1856); Kirb_v, Cat. Het. p. 164.
Pte1·.71gopterus superlm,s, Drnce, Biol. Cent.r.-Am., Het. i. p. 67, pl. 8. f. 7
(1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 158.

Male. Blue-black; antennre orange at tips; hind coxre with whitish
patches ; head and abdomen suffused in parts with metallic blue.
Fore wing with slight patches of metallic blue at base of vein 1 and
extremity of median nervure; a large apical white patch leaving
the (;ilia black; the terminal area irregularly brown. Hind wing
blue-black, with the apex metallic blue. ·
Hab. PANAMA, type superbus in Coll. Staudinger; BRAZIL, Up.
Amazons. 1 0 , Para (Bates), typet in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 52 millirn.