(35) 



of forcwing black, bases of wings jellow, the wide brown termen of forewing 

 densely powdered witb yellow scales. 



Length of forewing : 21 mm. 



Ilab. ? (Felder coll.), 1 ? . 



49. Cosmosoma rosenbergi sp. nov. 



? . Legs orange, tarsi black-brown ; head and thorax black with metallic 

 bine spots, metathorax orange with central metallic blue spot ; abdomen orange, 



last two segments black with subdorsal and lateral metallic blue spots. Wings 



hyaliue-wbite ; forewing, outer half of costa, discocelhilar bar, uervures, outer 

 half of inner margin, outer margin and terminal fifth of wing black, basal half 

 of wing below \n and basal half of costa orange ; hindwing, basal third, inner 

 area, and costa orange, termen, margin, and tornus black. 



c?. Similar, but less orange on wings, and a median dorsal black streak. 



Length of forewing : 20 mm. 



Hab. Cachabe, West Ecuador, low country, January 189T (W. H. Rosenberg), 

 1 ¥ ; Paramba, West Ecuador, 3500 ft., dry season, March 18'J7(W. H. Rosenberg), 

 1 S. Type ¥, Cachabfi. 



50. Cosmosoma parambae sp. nov. 



? . Differs from caecum Druce by the brown, not orange-red, costa and inner 

 margin (the latter with a fulvous yellow streak), by the lemon-yellow bases (not 

 orange-red) to the hindwings and abdomen, by the browner thorax mixed with 

 fuscous yellow, and by the outer margin of forewing being much constricted 

 between veins 3 and 4, and much expanded between tornns and vein 3 ; the 

 discocelhilar bar much narrower ; whole insect smaller. 



Length of forewing : caecum, ? 27 mm. ; S 22 mm. 

 „ „ „ parambae, ? 20 mm. ; c? 19 mm. 



(?. Similar, but streak on inner margin stronger. 



Ilab. Paramba, Ecuador, 35o0 ft., dry season, January — May 1897 (W\ F. H. 

 Rosenberg), 2(?c?, 2 ?? ; Rio Cayapas, North- West Ecuador (Flemming &, 

 Miketta), 1 ¥. Type ?. 



51a. Cosmosoma teuthras nigrescens snbsp. nov. 



? . Differs from the other forms of teuthras by the entirely black costa and 

 discocellular patch. 



Ilab. Guadalite, C'ananche, and La Palma, Cundinamarca, July 1903 (M. de 

 Mathan), 4 ? ¥ . Type ¥ , Guadalite. 



51b. Cosmosoma teuthras lignicolor subsp. nov. 



<?. Differs from teuthras teuthras in the shorter and wider wings, in the 

 scarlet-crimson being replaced by yellow, in the black being replaced by dark 

 wood-brown, in the much wider outer margin and terminal area of forewings, 

 and in the dark wood-brown areas of hindwing occupying fully two-thirds of 

 the wing. 



¥. Similar. 



Ilab. Paramba, J]cuador, 3500 ft, dry season, March — May 1897 (W. F. 

 H. Rosenberg), 2 <JcJ, S ¥ ¥. Type 6. 



