COSMOSOMA. 241 



2 with thick ridges of orange-fulvous hair on extremity of 

 abdomen below. 



Hab. Mexico, Tabasco (IJ. II. Smith) • Guatemala, Las Mercedes 

 ( Champion), tj])0 ; Paxama, Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion), Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. 'Exp. 26-34 millim. 



51G. Cosmosoina durca. (Plate IX. fig. 23.) 



Cosmosoma durca, Si'haus, .Journ. New York Ent. Soc. iv. p. 132 (1896). 

 "i L(BmocharisnJ(]ripei',Hcy\.G.'R. Ent. Soc. Beige, xxxiv. p. xiv (1890); 

 Kiiby, Cat. Het. p. 140. 



Black ; frons, vertex of head, fcegulie, patagia, thorax above 

 and at sides with patches of metallic blue scales ; tarsi white at 

 extremities ; abdomen with lateral patches of metallic blue scales ; 

 wings hj'aline, the veins and margins rather broadly black. Fore 

 wing with black basal parch with metallic blue spot on it ; the 

 terminal band of nearly even width throughout, but slightly 

 expandi)ig at apex and tornus of each wing. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo, 1 cT , 1 $ {Jones). Exp. 38 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Schaus. 



517. Cosmosoina elegans. (Plate IX. fig. 12.) 



Cosmosoma elegans, Butl. Jouru. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 386 (1876) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 140. 



cJ . Black ; frons with two white points ; ■^'ertex of head, tegnlaj, 

 patagia, and sides of thorax with metallic blue patches ; tarsi white 

 at extremities ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black ; the 

 terminal band very wide on apical area of fore wing, and expanding 

 at tornus and at apex and tornus of hind wing. 



Hah. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 S type. Exp. 40 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing with the lower part of cell of normal length ; veins 2 and 

 4 ralher shortly stalked ; palpi short. 

 A. Hind wing of male with the terminal area clothed with 

 rough scales on underside. 

 a. Abdomen of male with narrow ventral valve covering 

 basal segments. 



a^. Shoulders with crimson spots oratha. 



i^ Shoulders with white spots orathidia. 



*518. Cosmosoma oratha. 



Autochloris oratha, Druce, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 281. 



(S . Black ; frons white ; tegulae and metathorax with patches of 



blue ; shoulders with crim- 

 son spots ; fore coxtc with 

 white patches ; legs slightly 

 streaked with blue; abdo- 

 men with traces of sub- 

 dorsal blue fascia and a 

 dorsal patch at extremity ; 



tig. 108.— Cosmosoma araika, 1^ . \. the 1st segment with 



lateral crimson spots ; the 



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