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green scales in, below, and beyond the cell. Hind wing metallic 

 blue-green, with the veins and margins black ; hyaline streaks below 

 the cell and on inner margin. 



Hah. Amazons, Para (Bates), 3 $ , type. Exp. 30 millim. 



*597. Saurita biradiata. 



Pseudomya biradiata, Peld. Reis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 37 (1874); Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 138. 



o' . Head, thorax, and abdomeu black ; coxae, stripes on fore 

 femora, and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing black, 

 with slight semihyaline streak below base of cell ; two blue-green 

 streaks in end of cell ; the interspaces between veins 2 and 8 

 hyaline, leaving a terminal black band. Hind wing hyaline, with 

 the veins, cell, and patches at apex and tornus black. Underside 

 with blue in and below cell of fore wing and on costal area of hind 

 wing, and white patch below vein 2 of fore wing. 



Hah. Amazons. Exp. 28 millim. Typet in Coll. Rothschild. 



598. Saiirita tristissima. 



Glaucopis tristissima, Perty, Del. Anim. Art. p. 156, pi. 31. f . 7 (1834) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 138. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; thorax with small crimson 



spot at base of fore wing and 

 metallic blue marks at sides ; 

 coxae white ; femora striped 

 with white ; abdomen with 

 minute crimson lateral spots 

 near base followed by slight 

 Fig. 12&.— Saurita tristissiTna, S • h metallic blue spots; the ven- 

 tral surface white ; wings 

 hyaline, with the veins and margins black. Fore wing with the 

 inner margin and apical part of termen rather broadly black. Hind 

 wing with veins 2 and 4 from cell or hardly stalked, 3 absent or 

 from 2 just before margin. 



Hah. Amazons, Para {Bates). Exp. 26 millim. 



599. Saurita tenuis. 



Pseudomya tenuis, Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 30, pi. 17. f. 1 (1877); Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 138. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; crimson spots on patagiii 

 and at base of fore wing ; coxae and stripes on femora white ; wings 

 hyaline, the veins black. Fore wing with the inner area black ; an 

 apical black patch narrowing to vein 3. Hind wing with the inner 

 area black towards tornus, the termen black ; veins 2 and 4 hardlv 

 stalked, 3 from 2 just before termen. 



Hah. Amazons, Rio Trombitas, 1 S , type {Trail). Exp. 22 

 millim. 



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