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SYNTOMIDJE. 



crimsou patch on costa of hind wing ; the inner area of fore wing 

 and hind wing except terminal area shot with opalescent blue. 



§ with the coxoe dark ; underside not shot with blue. 



Hah. Mexico, Durango {Forrer), 1 c? 2 $ , type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 40 millim. 



980. Cyanopepla bella. 



Glaucopis bella, Guer. Icon. R. Anim., lus. p. 502 (1854) ; Druce, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 72 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 162. 

 Etichromia fflorwsa,MVlk. i. 215 (1854); Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 43, pi. 10. f. 10. 

 Cyano'pepla cruenta, Clem. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbilad. 1860, p. 545 



(1861) ; Ku-by, Cat. Het. p. 162. 

 Charidca bividnera, Grote & Rob. Ann. Lye. N. H. N. York viii p 365 



pi. 13. f. 2 (1867). 

 Charidca hmmatodes, Eoisd. Lep. Guat. p. 82 (1870). 

 Charidea cxhnia, Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 82 (1870). 



S . Black ; head, tegul^e, patagia, thorax, and legs with patches 

 of brilliant ruetallic blue ; fore coxae white ; abdomen suffused and 

 banded with blue. Fore wing with short metallic blue streak below 



base of costa, a streak on 

 vein 1 extending to bejond 

 middle, and a streak on 

 inner margin extending to 

 middle ; a crimson patch 

 formed of conjoined streaks 

 below costa, in and below 

 Fig. 240.— Ci/anopepla bella, cJ. {. cell, and either conjoined 



to or separate from an 

 elliptical oblique spot beyond the cell between veins 5 and 3 ; some 

 metallic blue beyond upper angle of cell ; cilia white at ti])8. 

 Hind wing with the basal area shot Avith brilliant blue ; cilia some- 

 times white at tips above tornus. Underside Avith brilliant metallic 

 blue on fore Aving beloAV the cell and beyond upper angle, and on 

 hind Aving except on terminal area. 



2 with blue patch on fore coxte ; underside of wings Avith a little 

 metallic blue at base only. 



The typical form is an aberration with the markings of fore wing 

 orange, the spot conjoined to the fascia, but mere commonly 

 8e2>arate. 



Ab. 1. gloriosa. Fore Aving with the markings crimson, the spot 

 separate from the fascia, which is narrow and bifid at extremity, in 

 hivuhurata broad. 



Ab. 2. eximia. Fore wing with the crimson spot conjoined to the 

 fascia. 



Hah. Mexico, Cuesta de Misantla (TrujilJo), Orizaba (Godman), 

 Coatepec (Brools), Jalapa (Hoege) ; Guatem.\la (Champion, Rodri- 

 guez) and tj^pe gloriosa ; Br. Hondueas (Blancaneaux) : Godman- 

 Palvin Coll. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



Cocoon oval, bright lemon-yellow, thin, and finely woven of silk 

 mixed with the yellow larval hairs. 



