new Species of SyntomidEe. 405 



Chrysostola sanguicepSj sp. n. 



Male. — Primaries and secondaries hyaline : primaries 

 broadly black at the apex, the outer and inner margins black, 

 the veins black : secondaries edged with black from the apex 

 to the anal angle, the veins yellow. The head, thorax, and 

 basal half of tlie abdomen chrome-yellow, tlie anal half of 

 the abdomen black ; antennse black ; legs chrome-yellow. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Hab. Cayenne {in the Hope Collection^ Mus. O.vford). 



Paramya pictay sp. n. 



Male. — Primaries semihy aline, the base and partly along 

 the inner margin chrome-yellow, the apex broadly brownish 

 black; a large black spot at the end of the cell, beyond which 

 the wing is crossed by a rather indistinct pale yellow band ; 

 a small black streak on the inner margin close to the anal 

 angle : secondaries chrome-yellow, the apex black. The 

 head, antennee, last three segments of the abdomen, and legs 

 black ; the thorax and abdomen chrome-yellow. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Hab. Cayenne (in the Hope Collection^ Mus. Oxford) . 



Cosmosoma orathidia, sp. n. 



Male. — Primaries and secondaries hyaline : primaries, the 

 base, apex, outer and inner margins broadly black ; a wide 

 zigzag black band crosses the wing at the end of the cell 

 from the costal margin to the anal angle : secondaries, the 

 costal, outer, and inner margins edged with black. The veins 

 of both wings black. The head, palpi, antennaj, thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs black j the tegul^ black, edged with 

 metallic blue ; a large red spot on both sides of the abdomen 

 at the base and a row of metallic-blue spots extending from 

 the base to the anus on each side. 



Expanse 1^^ inch. 



Hah. Nicaragua, Chontales (T. Belt, in the Hope Collection, 

 Mus. Oxford). 



Histicea glaucozona^ sp. n. 



Male. — Primaries brown, slightly shaded with pink in the 

 cell; two minute blue dots at the end of the cell, beyond which 

 is a very indistinct brownish-white band, similar in shape to 

 the yellow band on the primaries of H. amazonica : second- 

 aries brown, with a large square-shaped red spot beyond the 



