312 STNTOMD^. 



metathoras, and sides of thorax with metallic blue spots ; patagia 

 with large pale yellow patches ; fore coxa; pale yellow ; abdomen 

 with the first two segments pale yellow, the others with subdorsal 

 series of blue spots, the first three segments yellow below. Fore 

 wing black ; two crimson streaks below costa joining at middle ; a 

 yellow wedge-shaped mark in base of cell and spot in end of it ; 

 two broad crimson fasciae in submedian interspace, one below vein 1 

 and the uppermost narrowing below vein 2, above which is a short 

 crimson streak ; two metallic blue spots on discocellulars ; a series 

 of four yellow spots beyond the cell, the two lower nearer the 

 termen, the upper often small or absent. Hind wing with a broad 

 crimson fascia below the cell conjoined to four spots beyond it : 

 the inner area yellow. 



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

 YENEzrELA ; TKDrrDAD, type. Eay. 54-72 millim. 



686. Histi£ea beUatris. 



Euchromia bellatrix.^Vs.. i. 217 (1854) ; Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 21, pL 8. f. 8; 



Kirbv. Cat. Het. p. 120. 

 EiszicEa colombiis, Butl. Jonm. Linn. Soc.. Zool. xii. p. 362 (1876) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 120. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; frons, vertex of head, 

 and tegulge with metallic blue spots ; patagia and fore coxae with 

 pale yellow patches ; sides of thorax and legs with patches of blue ; 

 abdomen with the first two segments pale yellow, followed by a 

 lateral series of blue spots : the first three segments, and sometimes 

 part of the 4th. yellow below. Fore wing with metallic blue spots 

 at base and on the discocellulars ; a crimson streak below basal 

 two-thirds of costa ; a wedge-shaped yellow spot in base of cell and 

 quadrate spot in end of it ; a crimson fascia in submedian inter- 

 space arched at base : a crimson streak above medial part of inner 

 margin ; an oblique maculate yeUow fascia beyond the cell between 

 veins 7 and 3. Hind wing with a broad crimson fascia beyond the 

 cell usually conjoined to a maculate band beyond it ; the inner area 

 yellow except at termen. 



The typical form has the crimson fascia below cell of fore wing 

 narrow 'and arched throi'^i^^--^ y^l ^"^"^ ^.uove inner margin 

 narrow : the obliqi-/?''''! ^^-^°°<^ ^^^ ^eU narrow, on one side of 

 one specimen redr ^*J,to the two lower spots. 



Ab! 1. colomh'':^ ■^'''■^ ^'"f ^^^^ t^^ postmedial band broad; 

 hind wins with tv! J!?°''**'fj ^^'"^ "^^^""^ ^^^ ^^^ °ot conjoined to 

 the postmedial ban^ I-\T''T ''^ '°''^'' ^^^^ reduced. 



Ab. 1. Fore win? V*^ the fascia m submedian interspace ver\- 

 broad, contracting beWy^ ""^^^^ "' ^^® ^^*^^^ ^^^^ i^iner margin an*d 

 markinsrs of both win^s^^^*^: . . _, 



Hah: Colombia, type J"**™^', ^^f,^ta {BucUey, Vergara) ; 



Vk^ezoila, type, Aroa. F^' ^^'^^ °^^^- 



