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14. Autochloris mathani sp. nov. 



9. (toxae wlaite ; palpi black; head black, a glittering blue spot oa vertex; 

 tegnlae glittering blue ; thorax and patagia black ; first segment of abdomen buff, 

 segments 2 to 7 brilliant metallic blue with black rings on each segment, a median 



dorsal black line, last segment black tipped with cinnabar-red. Forewing 



hyaline-jellow, apical fourth black, basal half of costa yellow, rest of margins and 

 uervnres black, a basal orange slrcak between vein 1 and inner margin, a disco- 

 cellular black stigma; hindwing liyaliue-whitish, margins black. 



Length of forewing : 20 mm. 



Ilab. Cananche, Cnndinamarca, Colombia, August 1003 (M. de Matliau), 1 ? ; 

 Colombia,! ?. Type ?, Cananche. 



15. Sarosa boenninghauseni sp. nov. 



S. Allied to S. acutior Feld. Pectus black; antennae reddish orange; legs 

 black, tarsi bright orange, a blue metallic patch at base of tibiae ; palpi orange ; 

 head black, collar dull orange ; thorax black with a few orange hairs ; abdomen 

 black with steel-blue lateral spots on each segment, a transverse yellow bar 



on first segment and a narrow yellow ring on segments 2 and 3. Forewin"' 



hyaline-brownish yellow, costa, discocellular bar, and basal half of inner margin 

 deep orange, a subbasal spot above vein 1, the torual half of the inner margin, 

 and the outer margin sooty grey-brown ; hindwing hyaline-yellow, margins and 

 large patch at toruus sooty grej'-brown. 



Length of forewing : 17 mm. 



Hub. Province of llio de Janeiro ? 



Hi. Sarosa klagesi sp. nov. 



¥ . Pectus and coxae black ; tibiae metallic blue with a black central ring, 

 tarsi bright orange ; palpi black, frons black edged with yellow, vertex metallic 

 violet-blue, collar yellow ; tcgulae, patagia, and thorax black, a yellow spot at 

 base of tegnlae and patagia ; abdomen black with dorsal and lateral sjiots of 



metallic viulct-blue. Forewing hyaline-yellow, margins, termen, and nervures 



black, a metallic blue spot at base of wing; hindwing hyaline-yellow, margins 

 and patch at tornus black. 



Hub. San Esteban, Venezuela, June 1009 (S. M. Klages), 1 ?. 



17. Gymnelia chimaera sp. nov. 



S . This extraordinary insect belongs to the cocho section of Gi/miiclia. Legs 

 black-brown ; frons greyish ; palpi and vertex black ; collar metallic blue ; tegnlae 

 metallic blue edged with black ; thorax black, a brilliant metallic blue-green 

 patch on metathorax ; abdomen black, a pair of brilliant metallic green subdorsal 

 patches on first three segments, and two rows of subdorsal and lateral blue points 



on rest of segments. Forewing black, brownish on outer area, a patch of metallic 



blue scales occupying intrauervular spaces from vein 2 to and a streak of such 

 scales in cell, a hyaline spot in base of cell and another below base ; hindwing 

 reduced to a tuft of l)lack hair about 2 mm. long. 



Length of forewing : 17 mm. 



llab. La Union, Kio Huacamayo, Carabava, 2o0ii ft., wet season, November 

 I'JU-i (.a. IS. OckendeuJ, 1 6. 



