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726. Chrysocale principalis. 



Eupyra principalis, Wlk. xxxi. 97 (1864) ; Druce, Biol. Ceatr. -Am., Het. i. 

 p. 48, pi. 70. f. 27 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 124. 



Head and thorax black ; base of palpi, frons, vertex of head, 

 tegula), patagia, sides of thorax, and co.xse with paired white spots ; 

 some metallic greeu and cupreous on vertex of thorax ; abdomen 

 black, with white dorsal and subdorsal spots on 1st segment and a 

 lateral series ; dorsal metallic green bands becoming cupreous to- 

 wards extremity ; a ventral series of white patches ; wings black. 



Fig. 151. — Chrysocale principalis, J. \. 



Fore wing with two white spots at base ; a large peacock-green 

 patch on basal area ; a hyaline white spot in cell and another below 

 it : a cupreous green patch from end of cell to tornus, with a streak 

 from it on inner margin towards base ; a hyaline spot in upper 

 angle of cell and four spots in the interspaces beyond the cell ; an 

 apical cupreous green patch formed by streaks between the veins. 

 Hind wing shot with blue, and with a metallic green patch on 

 middle of outer area ; a wedge-shaped hyaline spot below the cell 

 and a double spot beyond it. 



Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca, type, Amecameca (Godman), Jalisco 

 (Schumann, Richardson)^ Guerrero (Smith) ; Guatemala (Rodriguez). 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. E.vp. 50 millim. 



*727. Chrysocale regalis. 



Glaucopis regalis, Boisd. Spec. Geu. Lep. i. pi. 16. f. 3 (1836); Herr.- 

 Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 571 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 124. 



S . Metallic golden green ; head, thorax, and abdomen with the 

 long hair black ; frons and base of coxae with white points ; fore 

 coxae with white patches, Fore wing with white point at base ; 

 some cupreous suffusion below the cell ; a triangular black patch 

 with hyaline point on it ; a point in upper end of cell and a 

 blackish patch beyond the cell, with hyaline points above veins 3, 4, 

 and 6. Hind wing with small hyaline spot on black ground below 

 the cell and two points beyond the cell. 



Hab. EcuADOK, Sarayacu (Buckley), in Coll. Druce. Exp. 42 

 millim. 



