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a*. Fore wing withovit white points at base... hercyna, 

 6'. Ablomen with tho extremity black. 



a^. Fore wing with large discoidal black 



patcli braconides. 



6". Fore wing without diacoidiil patch stibostictum, 



c*. Abdomen black. 



«'. Patrigia and abdomen with orange patches, harpalyce. 

 6'. Patagia and abdomen without orange 

 pat'?he3. 

 a*. Abdomen with conjoined lateral crimson 

 patches on basal segments. 

 a'. Abdomen with dorsal and subrlorsal 

 series oF while spots ; wings with the 



hyaline patches large regia. 



v. Abdomen with the dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal spots blue ; wings with the 



hyaline patches much smaller bogotense. 



b'\ Abdomen with paired basal crimson 

 spots. 

 a'. Abdomen witli lateral orange spots on 

 terminal segments ; fore wing hyaline 



yellow intcnsum. 



b''. Abdomen without orange spots ; fore 



wing liyaline ladan. 



c". Abdomen with one dorsal crimson spot 



at base stryma. 



523. Cosmosoma teuthras. 



Glaucopis teuthras, Wlk. i. 163 (1854) ; Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 31, ))1. 13. f. 5 ; 

 Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 60 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 142. 



Head black, with metallic blue on frons and vertex ; thorax 

 scarlet, black below with lateral patches of metallic blue ; abdomen 

 black, with lateral basal patches of scarlet and dorsal and subdorsal 

 series of metallic blue spots meeting on dorsum at base and extremitj' ; 



wings hj-aline, the veins 

 and margins black. Fore 

 wing with crimson fascia 

 below costa, reaching to well 

 {Tu beyond middle, the base 



scarlet, and a scarlet fascia 

 below vein 1 to beyond 

 Fig. \IQ. —Cosmosoma teuthras, J. \. middle; a large black-edged 



crimson discocellular spot ; 

 the terminal blackish band broad and occupying the whole apical 

 area. Hind wing with the base scarlet, running outward along 

 costa and inner margin ; the terminal band expanding on apical 

 area and near tornus. 



Hah. Panama, Bugaba {Champion), Godman-Salvin Coll. ; 

 Colombia, Zell. Coll. ; Venezuela, type. Exp. 40-44 millira. 



Subsp. 1. restrictum, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 389 (1876) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 142. 

 The scarlet on inner area of fore wing not reaching middle, and 

 the subcostal fascia slender. 



Hah. Bkazil, Hantarem (Bates), 1 c7 type. 



