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obsolescent; male with the edge of ventral valve and next seg- 

 ment white, the remainder of ventral surface yellow. — CoLOiiBiA 

 Bogota. 



364. Bombiliodes bijmicta. (Plate VII, fig. 1.) 



Gymnclia bljuncta, Wlk. vii. 1602 (1856) ; Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 136. 

 (rymndia coii&ociata, Wlk. xxxi. 85 (i86i) ; Kirby, Cat. llet. p. 136. 



2 . Head and thorax black ; shoulders and sides of metathorax 

 with white spots ; vertex of head and teguUe with patches of blue ; 

 abdomen black, with subdorsal patches of blue on first two or three 

 segments, the last three segments bright yellow, with black dorsal 

 spot on the antepenultimate ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins 

 broadly black. Fore wing with black bar across submedian inter- 

 space below middle of cell, and black discocellular bar ; the terminal 

 band expanding slightly to apex. Hind wing with black discocel- 

 lular spot ; the terminal baud expanding towards apex and toruus. 

 Hab. Amazons, Ega, 2 $ (Bates), type consociata. Exp. 40 

 millim. Type f bijuncta in Mus. Oxon. 



305. Bombiliodes cuma. (Plate VII. fig. 2.) 

 Gymnelia cuma, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xx. p. 302 (1897). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; vertex of head and tegula) 

 with blue spots ; shoulders, pectus, and fore coxie with white spots ; 

 abdomen with subdorsal white patches on first two segments, the 

 posterior edged with silvery blue ; the terminal segments with 

 lateral crimson bands, the last four segments wholly crimson below ; 

 the ventral valve edged with white ; wings hyaline, the veins, an(l 

 margins broadly, black. Fore wing with the base black ; a black 

 bar across submedian interspace and another on discoceilulars ; 

 the terminal band expanding somewhat towards apex. Hind wing 

 with small discoidal spot ; the terminal band dentate towards tornu.s. 



5 with the terminal segments of abdomen black below. 



Hab. Colombia, S. Martin {Child), type t in Coll. Druce ; Bolivia, 

 Songo {Garlejjp), 1 $ . E.vp., ,5 42, $ 56 millim. 



*366. Bombiliodes caunus. 



Sphinx caunus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 224. E (1779) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 136. 



2 . Black ; abdomen with the basal segment suffused with blue, 

 the last five segments orange, with dorsal patch on first orange seg- 

 ment ; wings hyaline, the veins, and margins rather broadly, black. 

 Fore wing with subbasal black bar across submedian interspace and 

 discoidal band coii joined to costal fascia. 



Ilab. SuiuNAM ; Beazil, Sao Paulo, in Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 

 8 millim. 



