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greenish luster, the mid tarsi white-scaled on the fourth joint below, 

 the hind tarsi at base of second and third, the fourth and fifth joints 

 white below except at the tips. 



One specimen, Caldera Island, Porto Bello Bay, Panama, bred 

 from a larva in water between the leaves of a bromeliaceous plant 

 (A. H. Jennings). 



Type no. 12102, U. S. N. M. 



Described from one of the types of W. dymodora D. and K., which 

 Vv'as wrongly included and does not fit the description. The Fort 

 San Felipe specimen remains as the type. 



LIMATUS CACOPHRADES, new species 



Female. — Occiput black with blue and green iridescence, a patch 

 of golden yellow scales at the vertex. Prothoracic lobes golden. 

 Mesonotum dark metallic violet-scaled with golden markings, a 

 median wedge-shaped one anteriorly and a semicircular one before 

 the root of the wing. Scutellum dark violet-scaled. Postscutellum 

 bronzy brown-scaled, with blue, coppery, or golden reflections. 

 Pleura clothed with golden scales above, silvery ones below. Abdo- 

 men with the dorsal vestiture black with coppery and blue reflections, 

 the venter yellowish silvery, the colors indented on the sides. Legs 

 bronzy black, with a brighter luster beneath. 



Male. — Proboscis with a tuft beyond the middle, the tip curved 

 and slightly thickened by scales. Coloration as in the female, except 

 that the mid and hind legs are white-marked beneath. 



Twelve specimens, selected from a series, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, 

 Panama (A. H. Jennings). 



Type no. 12130, U. S. N. M. 



This species was formerly identified as L. durhanii Theobald, but 

 differs therefrom most obviously in the color of the postscutellum. 



LIMATUS METHYSTICUS, new species 



Similar to L. cacopJirades D. and K. Tliorax with five irregular 

 golden patches. Abdomen silvery beneath, the colors separated on 

 the sides in a straight line. Middle legs with the last three tarsals 

 silver white beneath in the female, white all around in the male ; 

 hind legs with the last joint silvery white beneath in both sexes. 

 Proboscis of the male straight, slender, swollen at lip. 



Four specimens. Port Limon, Costa Rica, September 28, 1905 (F. 

 Knab). 



Type no. 12131, U. S. N. M. 



