242 STNTOMID^. 



ventral surface with brownish-white fascia. Fore wing with 

 blue points at base ; wedge-shaped hyaline patches in and below 

 cell, the latter with its outer edge indented ; elongate spots 

 above veins 3, 4, and 6, and a slight streak below vein 6. 

 Hind wing with hyaline streak below the cell and two beyond 

 the cell above vein 4. 



Hah. British Guiana {Whiteley). Exp. 32 millim. Type t in 

 Coll. Druce. 



*519. Cosmosoma orathidia. (Plate IX. fig. 25.) 

 Cosmosoma orathidia, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 405 (1898). 



cJ . Black ; frons, spots on shoulders, and coxae white ; tegulae, 

 patagia, metathorax, and legs with metallic blue markings ; abdomen 

 with lateral scarlet patches on 1st segment and metallic blue spots 

 on the others, the ventral valve white. Fore wing with wedge- 

 shaped hyaline patches in and below cell, the latter indented on 

 outer side ; elongate spots between veins 3 and 7- Hind wing 

 with elongate hyaline spot below cell, a small spot between veins 

 2 and 4, and patch beyond cell. 



Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales {Belt), 1 cJ , type f in Mus Oxon 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



b. Abdomen of male without ventral valve. 



a^. Fore wing with the costal and inner margins golden 



yellow to near termen proton. 



b^. Fore wing with orange-brown streaks below costa and 



above inner margin, some orange-brown marks on 



terminal band festivum. 



c*. Fore wing with slight orange streak below costa ; no 



orange on terminal band centrale. 



520. Cosmosoma proton. 



Cosmosoma prottis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 171 (1894); id. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 344, pi. 71. f. 19. 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; antennae white at tips ; 

 frons, vertex of head, thorax, and legs with patches of metallic 

 blue; patagia orange-yellow; abdomen with dorsal and lateral 

 series of metallic blue spots ; wings hyaline. Fore wing with the 



costa and inner area orange- 



y, yellow to near termen ; the 



^5 >/ median nervure and vein 1 



yellow ; an orange patch 

 ■^ below end of cell between 



veins 2 and 4 conjoined to a 

 patch below end of vein 2 ; 

 IBig.^Q^.— Cosmosoma proton, (S. \. a discoidal black spot ; the 



veins of outer area black ; 

 the terminal band expanding evenly towards costa. Hind wing 

 ■with the base yellow ; the veins of outer area black; the terminal 



