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28. Chrysocale plebeia. 



Enpi/ra pleheia, Ilerr.-Schiiff. Aussereur. Schiuett. f. 50 (lSo3); Butl. IH. 



Ilet. i. p. 24, pi. 10. f. 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 124. 

 Euchromia opulenta, Wlk. i. 210 (1854). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black, suffused with metallic cupreous 

 green. Fore wing metallic green shot with cupreous ; a diffused 

 elongate black spot in middle of cell with lino from its inner side to 

 inner margin ; costa and termeii blackish. Hind wing black shot 

 with blue. Underside metallic cupreous green, with diffused black 

 streaks in middle of cell of fore wing and end of cell of hind wing. 



Hah. Venezuela, type opulenta. Exp. 5G millira. 



Sect. II. Hind wiug with veins 2 and 4 from cell. 



A. Fore wing with byaliue spots beyond end of cell. 



a. Hind wing with hyaline spots gigantea. 



h. Hind wing without hyaline spots splendens. 



B. Fore wing without hyaline spots beyond the cell. 



a. Fore wing with hyaline spot in end of cell ignita. 



h. Fore wing without hyaline spots fcrens. 



729. Chrysocale gigantea. (Plate XII. fig. 16.) 



Eupyra gigantea, Di-uce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 493; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 124. 



5 . Head and thora.x black-brown ; palpi with white point at 

 base : fore coxae with white patch; abdomen suffused wifh golden 

 green, a slight dorsal white patch on 1st segment, sublateral whitish 

 ])oints on three medial segments ; wings black-brown. Fore wing 

 with the basal half suffused with golden green, almost joined on 

 inner area by a broad diffu.sed subterminal band ; a wedge-shaped 

 hyaline spot in middle of cell and rounded spot below the middle ; a 

 small round spot in upper angle of cell, and two spots beyond the 

 cell above and below vein 6 ; a larger spot above vein 3 and slight 

 streak above 4. Hind wing with elongate hyaline spot below the 

 cell, and oblique series of three spots beyond the cell between veins 

 2 and 6 : the terminal area irregularly suffused with blue-green. 



Hah. Colombia {Wheeler), 1 5 , Exp. 64 millim. Typef in Coll. 

 Druce. 



730. Chrysocale splendens. 



Eupyra splaidens, Dogniii, Le Nat. (2) ii. p. 152 (1888) ; id. Lep. Loja, 

 pi. iv. f. 1 ; Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 124. 



(S • Head, thorax, and abdomen blue-black ; head, vertex of 

 thorax, and legs suffused with bright metallic green ; frons and 

 fore coxas white ; abdomen with three dorsal metallic green spots 

 on medial segments, the last three segments and the ventral surface 

 metallic green, two lateral white spots on medial segments. Fore 

 wing metallic green shot with cupreous ; a somewhat triangular 

 black patch from costa beyond middle to vein 2, with a hyaline spot 

 in cell on its inner edge, a spot in upper end of cell, one between 

 base of veins 3 and 4, and a small spot above vein 6 ; the terminal 



