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and occiput pale green. Palpus black, with the first two 

 segments white beneath. Antennal shaft white. Thorax 

 green, pectus whitish. Fore and middle legs blackish 

 anteriorly, mid tarsus paler, tibiae and fore tarsus banded 

 with white; hind leg wholly whitish. Basal segments of 

 abdomen dorsally purplish fuscous with a white spot 

 posteriorly, the rest green (partly discoloured), the fifth 

 segment with a large fuscous dorsal spot, the sixth with a 

 minute one. Fore wing with costa very narrowly light brown, 

 marked with fuscous ; the markings purplish fuscous, con- 

 sisting of : a large central blotch, which may be somewhat 

 fancifully likened to a four-petalled flower, four roundish 

 lobes clustering round the still darker, streak-like cell-spot, 

 the two proximal more separated than the two distal, and 

 having between them a slight streak along the cell fold ; 

 numerous small spots in the costal area and at the base of 

 the wing ; and several transverse series, these forming an 

 irregular, double, inner series, considerably oblique outwards 

 from costa to M, a postmedian interneural series starting 

 from an irregular oblique blotch at costa, thence nearly 

 parallel w r ith termen, a few interneural spots between the 

 central blotch and this series, a subterminal and a terminal 

 series of vein-spots, the latter extending on to the base of the 

 otherwise pale, almost white fringe. Hind wing similarly 

 marked, except at costa, but with the central blotch much 

 smaller, fainter, and ill-defined. Underside paler; hind wing 

 and inner marginal half of fore wing unmarked, costal half of 

 fore wing marked nearly as above; terminal dots very small, 

 on hind wing faint. 



San Antonio, "W. Colombia, 5800 feet, December 1907 

 {M. G. Palmer). 



Possibly a form, certainly a close relative, of B. puncti- 

 seriata, l)ogn. Het. Nouv. Amer. Sud (1) p. 18, recently 

 published. My description was prepared some time before 

 the appearance of M. Dognin's brochure, and as a few 

 essential features (such as coloration of the face) seem to 

 differ in the two forms, I have thought it better not to 

 suppress it. 



Blechroma rufipicta, sp. n. 



S . 27 mm. — Face dark brown, vertex green ; palpus dark 

 brown, rather rough-scaled, third joint whitish; antennal 

 shaft above banded, whitish and dark grey. Thorax green 

 above, marked with red-brown, whitish beneath : legs whitish, 

 anterior femur and tibia with large fuscous spots above 



