( 451 ) 



Underside as above, but all the tiuts paler. Face and palpi bright red, paler 

 below ; vertex white, crowa red ; thorax and patagia greeu ; abdomen red with 

 white dorsal spots. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



1 ? from Chiriqui, Panama. 



42. Rhodochlora rothschildi sp. nov. 



Forewim/s : pea-green ; iirst line represented by a large yellow patch between 

 the median and submedian veins, its outer edge curved, traversed by an angled 

 broad red streak wjiich extends below the submedian and above the median ; 

 outer line consisting of well-defined black-brown lunules with rosy edging, starting 

 from inner margin before anal angle and ending on vein ; from vein 3 to inner 

 margin the lunules traverse a yellow space, the area beyond it at anal angle being 

 occupied by a blackish brown cloud which also reaches to vein 6, diverging from 

 hindmargin above vein 4 ; cell-spot brown ; fringe whitish green, brownish towards 

 jinal angle, and with a small brown speck at apex. 



Hindwings : with basal two-thirds hyaline yellowish ; a curved diflfnse dark 

 olive-grey band at one-third, and a black-brown well-defined luuulate dentate line 

 at two-thirds ; marginal area green, the apex black-brown, with a rufous patch 

 extending to vein 4, beyond a yellow patch which limits the dentate line externally 

 from costa to middle of inner margin, and a small patch beyond cell green. 



Underside of forewings dull green in costal half, the inner area white ; 

 a brown narrow cloud from anal angle ; hindwings wholly violet, the margin 

 narrowly greenish, with an elongated dark brown apical patch. Palpi deep red, 

 beneath whitish ; face orange, with three reddish orange flecks above : vertex and 

 basal joint of antennae snow-white ; antennae ochreous ; thorax pale green ; 

 abdomen yellowish white ; underside of abdomen and legs white ; extremities of 

 all the tibiae blotched with dark fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 60 mm. 



A: $ S from Chiriqui. 



A very beautiful insect, evidently closely allied to R. gaujoniaria Dogn., but 

 that species has the face and palpi black. In one example the area between veins 

 1 and 2 is yellow with transverse green streaks, instead of being wholly green. 



43. Tachyphyle occulta sp. nov. 



Forewings : dull green, with scattered purplish striae; cell-spot large, purplish; 

 first line represented by a purplish streak at costa and a spot on median and sub- 

 median veins respectively ; outer line obsolete, e.Kcept towards inner margin, where 

 it is marked by a spot on the submedian ; a purplish streak at apex ; fringe 

 apparently green. 



Hindwings : with reddish cell-spot, and faintly marked reddish central line, 

 which is slightly bent in below the median vein. 



Underside yellow-green, with all the margins whitish, except costal margin 

 of forewing, which remains greenish yellow ; cell-spots red-brown. Collar, thorax, 

 and abdomen yellow-green ; vertex, face, and palpi white ; these last with a slight 

 ochreous flush. 



Expanse of wings : 31 mm. 



