318 SYNTOMIB^. 



segment with paired dorsal and lateral white spots, the 2nd with 

 lateral and sublaheral spots, and the two following with ventral 

 spots. Fore wing with white point at base of costa ; some metallic 

 blue-green streaks at base, sometimes joined below median nervure 

 and on inner margin to the central band, which is usually broad and 

 composed of conjoined fasciae but sometimes of short well separated 

 streaks. Hind wing often with a patch of metallic blue on disk. 



Ab. 1. ferrea. Abdomen suffused with blue ; fore wing with only 

 a slight oblique black band below the cell between basal and medial 

 blue areas. — Espiritu Santo, Brazil, 1 5 ^jpe. 



Ab. 2. Hind tarsi with the fringe of scales entirely white. — 

 Peru, Coll. Sehaus. 



Hah. Mexico, Yera Cruz (//. H. Smith, Schumann, Godman), 

 Tabasco (JI. H. Smith) ; Honduras (Blancaneanx) ; Guatemala 

 {Champion) ; Costa Rica {Rogers, Underwood) ; Panama, Chiriqui 

 {Rihhe, Champion), Taboga Isl. {J. J. Wall-er), Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. ; Colombia ; Venezuela ; Surinam : Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 

 Para {Bates) ; Peru. Exp. 40-42 millim. 



697. Macrocneme cupreipennis. (Plate XI. fig. 15.) 

 Macrocneme cupreipennis, Wlk. vii. 1632 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 129. 



5 . Black, uniformly suffused with golden cupreous green ; 

 antennae white at tips ; frons with two white points, tegulse with 

 white dorsal point ; base of palpi, fore coxte, and base of femora 

 behind spotted with white ; abdomen with two dorsal white points 

 on Ist segment ; two ventral white points on 2nd segment below 

 followed by a medial series. Fore wing with white point at base. 

 Hah. ignotus. 1 $ type. Exp. 46 millim. 



698. Macrocneme adonis. 



Macrocneme adonis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 48, pi. 6. f. 16 

 (1884) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 129. 



Black ; antennae white at tips ; palpi at base, frons, tegulse, 

 shoulders, pectus, and fore coxae with paired white points ; thorax 

 suffused with metallic blue ; abdomen suffused with golden green, 

 the 1st segment with paired dorsal and lateral white points, the 

 2nd segment with lateral and sublateral points, and the next two 

 segments with ventral points. Fore wing with oblique basal patch 

 of metallic green and a streak on medial part of inner margin ; the 

 area from middle to near termen suffused with metallic blue. 

 Hind wing with more or less developed patch of metallic blue. 



Ab. 1. The specimen, figured from Chiriqui, has no blue on apical 

 area of fore wing, and a black streak from it to discocellulars. 



Hah. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa {Trujillo), Yucatan 

 {Gaximer) ; Guatemala {Eodriguez), Vera Paz {Champion) ; Panama, 

 Chiriqui {Champion), type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 40 millim. 



