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SYNTOMID^. 



with series of metallic bine sj^ots on them, meeting at extremity and 

 approximated at base of dorsum, with paired black patches below 

 and the terminal segments black ; wings hj'aline, the veins and 

 margins bUick. Fore wing with fine scarlet streaks below basal 

 three-fourths of costa ; the base scarlet, emitting a short streak 

 along inner margin ; a discoidal black spot; a black patch more or 

 less completely filling up the interspaces between veins 2 and 4 ; 

 the apical area very widely black. Hind wing with some scarlet 

 at base ; a black patch in cell ; the apical and inner areas black. 



2 with the black patch between veins 2 and 4 of fore wing very 

 much reduced or absent. 



Hab. W. Indies, St. Vincent, 3 cj' 3 $ (Z/. H. Smith), type. Ex^. 

 30 millim. 



529. Cosmosoma admotum. 



L<emocharis admota, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 241 ; Kirby, Oat. 



Het. p. 141. 

 LcBmocharis confinis, Herr.-Scbiiff. Aussereur. Scliiuett. f. 255 (1854). 



J . Head black, with patches of metallic blue scales on frons and 

 vertex ; antennae white at extremities ; thora.x; orange-red, patagia 

 edged with black ; metathorax and legs with metallic blue patches ; 

 abdomen black, with subdorsal and sublateral series of metallic blue 

 spots ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing 

 with the base orange-red ; streaks below costa and above inner 

 margin ; the terminal band very wide on apical area and running 

 up between veins 2 and 3 to the cell, and with a red streak on it. 

 Hind wing with the terminal band expanding at apex and tornus. 



Ab. 1. conjinu. Fore wing without red on the black patch 

 between veins 2 and 3. 



2 without the black and red patch between veins 2 and 3 of 

 fore wing. 



Huh. EiiAziL, Pernambueo, Bahia, Espiritu Santo. Exp. 32-36 

 millim. Type t ? and conjinis S in Coll. Staudinger. 



*530. Cosmosoma ccnsolatum. (Plate IX. fig. 26.) 

 Pseudomya consolata, Wlk. -vii. 1601 (1856); Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 138. 



$ . Head black, with metallic blue patches on frons and vertex ; 

 thorax orange-red ; abdomen black, with subdorsal and sublateral 

 series of metallic-blue spots ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins 

 black. Fore wing with the base orange and a slight streak below 

 base of costa ; the terminal band expanding widely towards apex 

 and at tornus. Hind wing with the terminal band expandin;^' 

 towards apex and slightly at tornus. 



Bab. Bkazil. Exp. 30 millim. 1 5 type f in Mus. Oxon. 



531. Cosmosoma remotum. (Plate IX. fig. 22.) 

 Glaucopis remota, Wlk. i. 170 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 141. 

 $ . Black ; antennae white at tips; frons, vertex of head, togulae, 



