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luteous bands ; the first composed of three dots in a curved line ; 

 the second slightly interrupted before the middle. Hind wings brownish 

 vitreous. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 12 lines, 



Para. 



Sphenoehina scindens, 



Rufescente-picea ; caput peracutum ; thorax suhviridescens ; abdomen 

 nigrum, basi supra fulvum ; tarsi antcriores Icete rufi ; alee anticce 

 rvfescentes, apices versus nigree, fascia lulea ; posiicce cinereo-vitrece, 

 margine fuscescente. 



Reddish piceous. Head very acute. Thorax with a slight metallic 

 greenish tinge. Abdomen black, tawny above at the base. Anterior tarsi 

 bright red. Fore wings reddish, black for more than one-third of the 

 length from the tips ; a bright luteous linear upright band at the com- 

 mencement of the black part. Hind wings grayish vitreous, brownish 

 about the borders. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Amazon Region, 



Sphenorhina frontalis. 



Nigra ; caput subacutum, antice album ; vertex alhido vittatus ; protho- 

 rax vitta antica albida, strigis duabus anticis lateralibus testaceis ; 

 scutellum albiduni, apice nigrum ; pectus lituris sex parvis rufis ; 

 tarsi postici ex parte rufescenfes ; alee anticce venis crassis ; postica 

 nigricante-vitrea. 



Black. Head slightly acute, whitish in front, and with a whitish 

 stripe on the vertex. Prothorax with a slight whitish stripe on the 

 fore part, and with a testaceous streak on the fore part of each side. 

 Scutellum whitish, black towards the tip. Pectus with three small 

 red marks on each side. Hind tarsi partly reddish. Fore wings with the 

 veins very strongly marked. Hind wings blackish vitreous. Length of 

 the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Colombia, 



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