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thorax above, and legs with patches of metallic blue scales ; abdo- 

 men with subdorsal and sublaterul series of metallic blue spots ; 

 ■wings h3'aline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing with 

 orange-red basal spot and tine streaks below costa and above inner 

 margin ; a discocellular black lunule ; tlie terminal baud expanding, 

 and with patches of orange-red on apical area and at tornus. Hind 

 wing with the terminal band expanding at apex and tornus. 



tS with the terminal band much wider at apex and tornus ; on 

 fore wing with no orange-red on apical area, and the black running 

 up below vein 2 to the cell. 



Hab. Vejs'ezuela, 1 J 1 9 , type. Ki^). 32 millim. 



532. Cosmosoma eumele. (Plate IX. tig. 28.) 

 Loxojfkkbia eumelis, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 376 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 135. 



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

 patagia streaked with orange ; frons and metathorax with patches 

 of metallic blue; abdomen with dorsal blue spots ou first two segments 

 and subdorsal aud sublateral series ; wings hj'aline, tlie veins and 

 margins rather narrowly black. Fore wing with prominent orange 

 streak below costa aud two above inner margin, the lower extending 

 to beyond middle ; the terminal band expanding somewhat towards 

 apex and with some orange on its inner side near apex and 

 tornus. Hind Aving with the inner area black. Underside of both 

 wings with subcostal orange streaks. 



Hab. Ecuador, lutaj {BacJdey); Bkazil, Casa Branca, 1 $; 

 Bolivia, Songo, 1 (S . Exji. 3-4 millim. Type fin Coll. Druce. 



533. Cosmosoma annexum. 



Lmmocharis annc.ru. Herr.-SchafF. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 257 (1854) ; Kirby, 

 Oat. Het. p. 141. 



cJ . Black ; vertex of head and tegulse with patches of blue ; 

 abdomen with subdorsal series of blue spots ; wings hyaline, the 

 veins and margins rather broadly black. Fore wing with orange 

 subcostal streak expanding towards apex ; two streaks at base of 

 inner area ; an orange patch between veins 2 and 4 ; the terminal 

 band of both wings expanding widely on apical area. 



Hid). Brazil, liio Janeiro, Casa Branca, 1 ^ . Exp. 30 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Staudinger. 



534. Cosmosoma ethodaea. 



Cosmosoma ethodcea, Druce, A. M. N. 11. ((5) iv. p. 84 (1880); Biol. Ceutr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 344, pi. 71. f. 20 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 140. 



5 . Head black ; frons whitish ; antenna) witli the basal joints 

 below and extremities white, some blue on vertex of head ; thorax 

 golden yellow ; t(guUc black and blue; patagia edged with black ; 

 thorax black below, with lateral white patches; abdomen black, 

 with five golden-yelkjw bauds; subdorsal white sjiots on 1st seg- 



