42 AKCTIID.E. 



bright carmine spots. Body brown, spotted and banded with green ; legs white internally 

 (excepting the tarsi), brown irrorated with green externally. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines 

 to 2 inches 1 line. 



Venezuela {Dyson). 



Mr. Meldola lias received this species from Trinidad. 



Charidea arrogans. (Plate XIII. fig. 12.) 

 Euchromia (Autoniolis) arrogans, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 214. n. 14 (1854). 



Black : primaries streaked with metallic green ; an elongated basimedian spot, a quad- 

 rate spot in the cell, and an oblique subapical band darker or paler ochreous : secondaries 

 feebly shot with dark blue ; a broad carmine outer border, not reaching the costa or anal 

 angle. Body spotted and banded with green. Below nearly as above, but the median spot 

 near the base of primaries obsolete. Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 



Venezuela [Becker), Veragua (Salvin). 



Charidea alonzo. (Plate X. fig. 11.) 



Charidea alonzo, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 415. n. 4 (1876). 

 Euchromia fastuosa, var., Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 215 (1S54). 



Primaries dark brown, base streaked with metallic green ; a subbasal spot, a spot in the 

 cell, and a narrow subapical stripe, carmine : secondaries black, shot with blue ; a broad carmine 

 border, not reaching the costa or the anal angle. Head and collar metallic green, with black 

 margins ; tegulas green internally, brown externally ; thorax brown, with a dot on each 

 shoulder and a central stripe, green ; abdomen almost wholly green, with ultramarine reflec- 

 tions. Primaries below dark brown, shot with blue and streaked with green at the base ; a 

 quadrate spot in the cell and a rather broad subapical band, lake-red : secondaries with 

 interno-basal area shot with green; outer border as above. Body golden green; legs brown 

 internally, tarsi brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. 



Venezuela (Dyson) . 



Quite distinct from ('. fastuosa. 



Charidea hurania. (Plate XVIII. fig. 8.) 



Charidea hurama, Butler, Joum. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 41(>. n. 11 (187'i). 



Primaries dark brown, streaked with green at the base; an elongate interno-basal spot, 

 an elongate discoida! Bpot (only separated from the first by the median vein), and an oblique 

 trilid subapical band or Bpot, fleshy pink: secondaries black, shot with ultramarine; fringe 

 ochraceous. Head and thorax brown, spotted and striped with green; abdomen green, 

 banded with brown. Wings below Dearly as above, but the discoidal and interno-basal spots 



