4 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Hind wings with the marginal veins towards the tips and the border 

 brown. Length of the body 13 lines ; of the wings 40 lines. 



Haiti. 



South America. 



ZaMMABA 8MARAGDULA. 



Mas. Late smaragdina ; caput supra litura magna trigona strigisque 

 lateralibus nigris ; prothorax vitlis scplem, maculis duabus laterali- 

 bus strigisque duabus marginalibus nigris ; mesothorax vittis quatuor 

 margineque postico nigris; abdomen supra nigrum, fasciis tribus 

 anticis fulvis, segmentis viridi marginalis ; alee viirea ; anticce 

 maculis sex obscure fuscis. 



Male. Bright emerald-green. Head above mostly occupied by a 

 black triangular mark, with black streaks on each side, striated in front. 

 Prothorax with seven black stripes, with a black spot on each side, and 

 with a black streak on each lateral angle, which is much less prominent 

 and more obtuse than that of Z. smaragdina. Mesothorax with four black 

 stripes, the exterior pair obliquely and irregularly interrupted in front; the 

 interior pair lanceolate ; hind border black. Abdomen black above, green 

 on the hind border of each segment, with three tawny bands in front. 

 Wings very transparent, with purplish opaline lustre. Fore wings with six 

 dark brown spots, which appear tawny when viewed obliquely ; first spot 

 at the lip of the front areolet ; second on the middle of the first and on the 

 tip of the second discoidal areolet; third on the first transverse vein ; fourth 

 at the tip of the wing ; fifth on the seventh and on the eighth marginal 

 areolets; sixth on the fifth transverse vein. Length of the body 15 lines; 

 of the wings 36 lines. 



Zammara testacea. 



Foem. Testacea ; caput supra nigrum, maculis testaceis ; prothorax 

 gutlis duabus mediis nigris, lateribus nigricanlibus dilatatis angula- 

 tis ; mesothorax fulvu^, vittis quatuor anticis nigris; abdomen supra 

 nigrum, segmentorum marginibus posticis testaceis; alee vitrece, basi 

 venisque testaceis; anticce longi-fusiformes perangustcB,venis transver- 

 sis nigris. 



Female. Testaceous. Head above black, with testaceous spots. 

 Prothorax with two black dots in the middle ; sides blackish, dilated, an- 



