442 STNXOMID^. 



blue ; legs striped with blue ; fore coxae and a stripe on femora 

 white. Abdomen black, banded with brilliant metallic blue, i'ore 

 wing black-brown, with metallic blue spot at base of costa and 

 streak on basal half of inner margin ; a crimson spot below base of 

 cell ; cilia yellowish at tips. Hind wing black-brown shot with 

 purple ; a terminal crimson band from just below apex to above 

 tornus. Underside with the basal half of both wings shot with 

 brilliant metallic blue. 



Hah. Colombia. Exp. 42 millim. Tj-pe f in Coll. Druce. 



971. Cyanopepla cinctipennis. (Plate XV. fig. 5.) 



Charidea cinctipennis, Wlk. xxxi. p. 97 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 161. 

 Charidea azetas, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 35 (1896). 



(S . Black; head, tegulse, patagia, and legs with patches of metallic 

 blue-green ; coxaj white ; abdomen with broad blue-green bands on 

 each segment, the ventral surface with a narrow white stripe. Fore 

 wing with a short crimson streak below base of cell ; traces of the 

 crimson of underside showing in and below end of cell ; the costa 

 and cilia orange-yellow. Hind wing shot with brilliant blue ; a 

 crimscJn patch with irregular inner edge on terminal area from below 

 apex to below vein 2 ; cilia orange-yellow. Underside with some 

 metallic blue at base of each wing ; fore wing with a large crimson 

 patch in and below end of cell ; veins 3, 4 sometimes separate at 

 origin. 



2 with metallic green patch on fore coxae. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogota, 1^,1$ type. Exp., S 40, $ 44 millim. 



Subsp. 1. § . The crimson patch on underside of fore wing 

 reduced to obsolescent spots in and below end of cell or in end of 

 cell only ; the yellow on costa and cilia more or less reduced, the 

 cilia sometimes entirely dark ; hind wing with the crimson terminal 

 patch much reduced, often to spots separated by the dark veins. 



Hah. Ecuador {BucHcij), 3 5 . 



972. Cyanopepla micans. 



Charidea micans, Hei-r.-SchiifF. Aussereur. Sclimett. f. 233 (1854) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 162. 

 Charidea fulgens, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 234 (1864) ; Kirbv, 



Cat. Het. p. 162. 



S . fidgens. Black-brown; head, tegulre, patagia, thorax, and 

 legs with patches of metallic blue-green ; fore coxae and a stripe on 

 legs white ; abdomen with segmental blue-green rings. Fore wing 

 with metallic blue-green at base, and streak on basal part of inner 

 margin ; a bright crimson wedge-shaped spot below base of cell ; 

 two spots beyond lower angle of cell, between veins 3 and 5. Hind 

 wing brilliant blue ; a terminal bright crimson band from below 

 apex, narrowing to near tornus. Underside of both wings with the 

 basal two-thirds metallic blue except on costa ; cilia of both wings 

 white at tips. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with an obsolescent crimson streak in lower 

 end of cell. 



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