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of each hind \\-\ng varies in specimens from the same locaHty 

 from one-half the usual size to the larger normal-sized spot. 

 A male from Santa Marta has one front wing with a small 

 apical red spot, and another male from the same locality has 

 both front wings so spotted. 



3. Hctacrina capitalis Selys. 



Guatemala, El Fiscal (5, 9) ; Honduras, San Pedro Sula (.5, 9, 10) ; 

 Colombia, Bolivar (2, 9), Cincinnati (5, 9), Cristalina (2, 9, 10), 

 Maraquita (2. 9. 10); Venezuela, Aroa (9). Bejuma (2. 9), Xirgua 

 (2, 9), San Esteban U.. 9), Tachira (9, 10). ' 



The Central American specimens have the thoracic dark 

 markings more metallic green than the others where the mark- 

 ings in the males are usually a reddish or purplish black, and 

 the females are sometimes similarly colored. There is con- 

 siderable variation in size, but this is independent of localit}-. 

 Two males from Cristalina measure, respectively, abdomen, 

 34 and 41, and hind wing, 26 and 30. 



At San Esteban we noted: "FUes sometimes in dark places 

 and alights near the water on rocks ; under these conditions 

 \ery hard to see or to follow flight." Capitalis occurs in the 

 darkest habitats in which we have found Hetaerinas in the 

 tropics. Such habitats frequently occur at the extreme head- 

 waters of rocky quebradas. It is not impossible that our fail- 

 ure to find capitals at certain localities where its invariable 

 associate, macropus, flies, as, for example, in Trinidad, may 

 have resulted from inadequate exploration of the streams to 

 their headwaters. 



4. Hctaerina charca Calvert. 

 Peru, Colonia del Perene (9, 14). 



From the limited data available charca, like capitalis, seems 

 to prefer the headwaters of the quebradas on which it occurs. 



5. Hctaerina cruentata Rambur. 



Guatemala, Agua Caliente (i. 9), Amatitlan (i). El Fiscal (3, 9); 

 Honduras. San Pedro Sula (3. 9. 10); Coiom-lua, Cincinnati (3, 9). 



