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f)2. Cosmosoma brasiliense sp. nov. 

 c?. Legs l)rown, fore coxae white; head black ; antennae ilaik brown; thorax 

 oranoe; abdomen orange, last two segments black, ventral valve large, white. 



Wings hyaline-white, nervnres, discocellalar bar, and margin black-brown, the 

 latter expanding at the termen. 



(?. Similar. 



Length of forewing : 2:5 mm, 



Hab. Santa t'atherina, Brazil, 2 6S. 



o3. Cosmosoma meridense sp. nov. 



5 . Legs and antennae black ; head and tegulae orange ; thorax black streaked 

 faintly with orange ; abdomen deep steel-blue, narrow orange rings on segments 



2, 3, and 4. Wings hyaline-yellowish; forewing, basal half of costa yellow, 



veins and margins black, expanding at termen; hind wing, nervures and margins 

 black. 



Length of forewing : 17 mm. 



Hab. Mcrida, Venezuela (Briceno), 1 ? . 



54. Icharia bricenoi sp. nov. 



S. Differs from multigutta Schaus in its larger size, in the red on thorax and 

 base of wing being reduced to small dots, in red on abdomen being rednced to two 

 small subdorsal dots on basal segment, in the frontal half of ventral valve being 

 brown, and in the antennae being non-serrate and much swollen. 



Length of forewing: mtdliijutta Via mm., bricenoi 15 mm. 



Ilab. Merida, Venezuela (Briceno), 3 c?c?. 



55. Psilopleura klagesi sp. nov. 



(?. Legs black-brown ringed with white, coxae creamy white ; palpi black ; 

 frons black, vertex buffy yellow ; antennae brown, apical third white ; thorax 

 dark sej)ia with buffy yellow central band ; abdomen bright orange, broad median 



band and last segment dark sepia. Forewing dark sepia, a white spot in cell 



and below it, a white broad discocellular band from subcostal to vein 2, tips of 

 nervures in fringe white ; hindwing white, a broad marginal band and discocellular 

 spot sepia. 



?. Similar, but hindwing entirely sepia with a basal and a discal white patch. 



Length of forewing : c? 16 mm., ? 18 mm. 



Hab. Cindad Bolivar, Venezuela, July 0th, 1898 (S. M. Klages), 1 S ; Caracas, 

 Venezuela, 1 (?, 2 ? ?. Type 3, Ciudad Bolivar. 



56. Psilopleura hymenopteiidia sp. nov. 



cT. An exact mimic of an Hymenopterous insect sent with it by the colli ctor. 

 Forelegs yellow, coxae white, middle legs brown, tibiae and tarsi yellow, liindicgs 

 brown, a yellow band on tibiae ; palpi, head, antennae, and thorax black ; abdomen 



maroon-red, last two segments black. Wings semihyaline; forewings dirty 



yellow, outer third clouded with dark brown, an ill-defined black discocellular 

 patch ; hindwing yellowish, ajiical third clouded dark brown. 



Lengtii of forewing: 12'r) mm. 



Ilah. Buenavista, East Bolivia, 75U metres, August I'JUG— April TJOT (Jos6 

 Steiubacii), 1 cj. 



