112 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



broader, and more pubescent than in Isanthrene ; the legs, 

 too, are shorter and stouter. Many species are found in 

 Mexico and South America; the best known species is C. 

 auge (Linn.), which extends as far north as Florida, and is also 

 common in the West Indies. It has a bright scarlet body and 

 legs, with the tip of the abdomen black. 



COSMOSOMA FESTIVUM. 

 (Plate LXXXII. Fig. 2.) 



Glaucopis festiva^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. i. p. 171, 

 no. 54 (1854). 



This species comes from Honduras. The expanse of the 

 wings is i \ inch. The following is Walker's description of the 

 female : 



" Bright metallic blue or green, according to the reflection ; 

 linear, rather short. Proboscis, palpi, and antennae black. 

 Palpi nearly straight, rather long ; third joint moderately long, 

 about half the length of the second. Antennae minutely pecti- 

 nated, white above towards the tips. Thorax ferruginous, with 

 two luteous spots in front, and with a luteous stripe on each 

 side. Pectus partly ferruginous. Wings limpid. Fore-wings 

 broad, testaceous at the base and along most of the fore 

 border, and partly so along half of the hind border ; black at 

 the tips for one-fourth of the length, and with black hind 

 borders ; a black band across the middle, interrupted on part 

 of the median vein, and of the fourth inferior veinlet ; veins 

 black, testaceous at the base ; discal fold not apparent on the 

 discal areolet, but distinct beyond it. Hind-wings with the 

 base, the fore border and the veins testaceous ; tips and hind 

 borders black. Abdomen black, with two rows of blue or 

 green spots above and beneath. Legs black, slender ; tooth 

 of the fore tibiae small ; middle and apical spurs of the hind 

 tibiae very small." 



