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blackish lirown areas are each connected with the caudal margin 
by a short but broad band, that margin l^eing broadly margined 
with that color in its median half. 
This is easily one of the handsomest species of the South Ameri- 
can lllattidae. 
Hormetica apolinari Hel>ard 
1919. Hormetica apolinari Hebard, Trans. Am. Knt. Soc., xlv, p. 128, pi. 
XVIII, fig. 4, pi. XIX, fig. 7. 1 d’, 9 ; FusagasugA, Cundinamarca, Colombia.] 
New York quarantine, VI, 30, 1904, (H. B. Shaw; in orchids 
shipped from Puerto Colombia, Atlantico, Colombia), 1 medium 
small juv. 
Miizo, Boyaca, IX, 1918, (from A. Maria), 1 d' . 
Susumuco, Cundinamarca, IX, 1917, (from A. IMaria), 3 d , 
1 9. 
Villavicencio, Intendencia del Meta, IV to VIII, 1918 and 
1919, (from A. Maria), 6 cf, 7 9,1 large juv. d, 1 large juv. 
9 , 1 medium small juv. 
Comparison of material before us, unquestionably assignable 
to Dasyposoma Brunner, as at present understood in the literature, 
with adults of Hormetica apolinari, shows beyond question that 
the material actually represents the immature condition of this 
species. 
Further investigation convinces us that Saussure’s Dasyposoma 
marmorata, described from a female from ^Vnezuela,■’® which 
specimen was later recoi'ded as from Colombia, is an immature 
of a s]:)ecies of Ilortnetica closely related to apolinari. From 
1h(! descrijition we find that marmorata is, in the described 
immature condition, contrastingly colored, with head yellow, 
bearing a transverse band of fuscous. 
Juveniles of the jiresent species have the head lilackish brown, 
the veidex to just above the ocelli yellowish, the delimiting of 
these areas obs(*ure in these stages, but very sharjdy defined in 
adults. In all the immature stages before us the pronotum has 
two narrow marginal jiatches of yellowish on the cephalic margin 
each sid(' of the lu'ad, thi; antennae with several whitish joints 
bi'fori' the terminal joints. In the earlier stages individuals are 
otherwise' solidly vei’y dark blackish brown, in the later stages 
Itcv. (‘I. Miig. <lc Zool., (2), XXI, p. 1 12, (1S()9). 
.Miss. Sci. Mcx., Hccli. Zool., vi, j). 122, (1870). 
