Ileterocera from Central Americn. 171 



specimen in my collection. The following is Walker's 

 description : — " Deep black. Head and thorax thickly 

 clothed with bright orange hairs. Thorax with two purple 

 spots in front ; scutellum purple. Pectus clothed with black 

 hairs. Fore wing narrow, ver}- long, with a blue spot at the 

 base, and a curved blue mark beyond the middle towards the 

 fore border. Abdomen tapering towards the tip, witli a row 

 of blue spots and of white dots along each side ; underside 

 with two blue stripes. Ilind tarsi white, with black tips. 

 Length of the body S lines, of the wings 24 lines." 



COSMOSOMA, Iliibn. 



Cosmosoma protuSj sp. n. 



Primaries and secondaries hyaline : primaries, the costal 

 margin, base, and inner margin, a short band extending from 

 the apex to the end of the cell all bright orange-yellow; the 

 apex and outer margin black : secondaries broadly bordered 

 with black. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright blue-black, 

 with bright blue spots ; tegulai bright orange ; legs and 

 antenna? black ; antenna? with the tips white. 



Expanse ly inch. 



/lab. Mexico, Jalapa (J/^, Trujillo). • 



Allied to C. elegans, Druce. 



Cosmosoma? cucadma, sp. u. 



Primaries and secondaries black, streaked with greenish 

 blue at the base : primaries with a small streak near the base, 

 and beyond a rather wide band partly crossing the wing 

 nearest the apex, both hyaline : secondaries with a hyaline 

 line down the middle. Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; 

 the abdomen with a greyish line on each side. 



Expanse Ij inch. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet {Champion). 



One specimen. 



Chloropsinus, Butl. 



Chloropsi'nus potentia, sp. n. 



Primaries and secondaries brownish black, with all the 

 veins darker than the wings ; thorax and tegul^ bright 

 orange. Head, antenna?, abdomen, and legs brownish black. 



Expanse H inch. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba [Mits. Druce). 



12* 



