250 STNTOMID^. 



ment, some metallic blue between the bands and at extremity, the 

 2nd segment fringed with white below. Eore wing hyaline yellow, 

 the veins and margins black ; an orange fascia below costa to near 

 apex, and fasciae above basal half of inner margin and vein 1; a 

 discoidal black patch ; the terminal band very broad on apical area 

 and running up below vein 2. Hind wing with some orange at 

 base ; a discoidal black patch conjoined to the large expansion of 

 the terminal band at tornus ; a hyaline patch on disc crossed by the 

 black veins and edged by orange above ; apical area black. 



Hah. Mexico, Atoyac, Vera Cruz (^H. H. Smith), L $ Godman- 

 Salvin Coll., type. Kvj). 38 millim. 



535. Cosmosoina advenum. 



Cosmoso-ma advetia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 59, pi. 7. f. 15 (1884); 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 141. 



cJ . Head black and white ; thorax orange-red, the vertex fuscous } 

 abdomen black, with orange-red subdorsal stripes nearly meeting on 

 vertex and not reaching extremity ; ventral surface orange-red 

 except the terminal segments. Wings hyaline, the veins and 

 margins black. Fore wing with slight red streak at base of inner 

 margin ; a black discocellular patch ; the terminal band very wide 

 on apical area and expanding towards tornus. Hind wing with red 

 streak on inner margin ; the terminal band expanding on apical 

 area and at tornus. 



Mab. Mexico, Jalapa (TrujiUo) ; Guatemala, Vera Paz {Cham- 

 pion), type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp, 3G millim. 



536. Cosmosoma scitum. (Plate IX. fig. 9.) 



llipa scita, Wlk. vii. 1611 (185(i) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 143. 

 Poecilosoma hilaris, Wlk. xxxi. 88 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 134. 



$. !Read, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow; antenna) black j 

 verte^. 'of head, tegula), and metathorax black, with blue spots ; 

 patagia fringed with black ; abdomen with black dorsal bands on 

 each 'segment, with subdorsal blue spots on them; wings hyaline 

 yellow, the veins and margins black ; the terminal band expanding 

 on apical area and below vein 2 of each wing ; inner area of hind 

 wing orange. 



Hah. Amazons, Ega, 3 $ {Bates), type liilaris. Exp. 34 millim. 

 Type t in Mus. Oxon. 



537. Cosmosoma vesparium. 



Glaucopis vesjMria, Perty, Del. Anim. Art. p. 157, pi. 31. f. 9 (1834); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 134. 

 Isanthrene odyneroides, Wlk. vii. 1604 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 134. 



c? . Head and thorax yellow ; vertex of head, tegulse, and meta- 

 thorax with black and blue patches ; thorax striped with black • 



