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orange yellow bands separated dorsally by a fine black line; these 

 yellow bands extending sublaterally ; terminal segments with trans- 

 vei-se steel blue lines; underneath white with black segmental lines, 

 the last segments black. Wings yellowish, hyaline, the veins black. 

 Fore wing with the costa ochraceous ; margins finely black, expand- 

 ing somewhat at apex and base of inner margin, the latter with two 

 ochraceous streaks. Hind wing with termen finely black ; inner mar- 

 gin black with orange yellow fringe and similar scaling at base and 

 in cell. Fore wing below with only the terminal third finely black, 

 the inner margin whitish. Hind wing below with imier margin light 

 orange yellow. 



Expanse. — 41 mm. 



Habitat. — Near Macas, Ecuador. 



Type.— C2it. No. 25871, U.S.N.M. 



Received from Mrs. E. W. Rorer. 



AUTOCHLORIS ETHELA, new species. 



Female. — Antennae black. Palpi, head, and thorax fuscous black ; 

 metallic azurite blue scales on vertex behind. Abdomen above mostly 

 fuscous black ; large paired white spots on first and second segments ; 

 light squill blue and white irrorations subdorsally on third segment ; 

 on the following three segments fine lines posteriorly of blue irrora- 

 tions not meeting dorsally ; last segments entirely scarlet red with a 

 black dorsal line; segments 4-6 laterally scarlet red, ascending 

 obliquely towards dorsum ; underneath fuscous. Legs fuscous ; some 

 white scales at throat, on fore coxae, and white lines laterally at mid 

 and hind femora. Wings hyaline white, the veins and margins nar- 

 rowly black. Fore wing with hyaline streaks on basal half above 

 and below costal vein; base narrowly black; an upright antemedial 

 black bar from median to submedian; a similar bar on discocellular 

 to costa. 



Expanse. — 40 mm. 



Habitat. — Banos, Ecuador. 



Type.—Q^t. No. 25872, U.S.N.M. 



Received from Mrs. E. W. Rorer, in whose honor I name this 

 species. 



Near A. cuma Druce. 



AUTOCHLORIS SOLIMOES. new spcciea. 



Female. — Head and body black; some metallic blue on frons, ver- 

 tex behind, tegulae, metathorax and dorsally on basal segment of 

 abdomen, the same segment with crimson subdorsal spots and a 

 more outset crimson line on following segment. Legs black; a crim- 

 son streak on inner side of fore coxae. Wings hyaline white, the 

 veins black. Fore wing with termen rather broadly black, its inner 



