SPHECOSOMA. 93 



narrowly black-brown ; slight rufous streaks below costa and on 

 inner margin. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 black-brown. 



Hab. S. Braztl, Sao Paulo, Aracatuba (D. Jones), type f <3 in 

 Coll. I). Jones. Exp. 20 millim. 



311. Sphecosoma similis, insert (syn.) : — . 



Chrysostola cosmosomoides, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 157 (1911), & xix. 

 p. 377, pi. v. f. i). 



Venezuela, San Esteban (Klages), type t <S in Coll. 

 Rothschild. 



312a. Sphecosoma abdominalis. (Plate IV. tig. 20.) 



Sphecosoma abdominalis, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 184 (1905). 



S • Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow ; antennae blackish 

 above ; vertex of head with fuscous patch, teguke black at base ; 

 patagia edged with black ; pro- and mesothorax with black bands, 

 metathorax with black patch followed by a bar ; fore and mid tarsi 

 streaked with black ; abdomen with black dorsal patch with some 

 blue on basal segment and bars on the tubercles, the 3rd and 4th 

 segments dorsally fulvous ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen 

 pale yellow ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 fuscous. Fore wing with orange streak below medial part of costa; 

 a fuscous patch at base of inner margin ; the terminal band 

 expanding and emitting short streaks in the interspaces towards 

 apex. Hind wing with some orange at base of costa. 



Hab. Venezuela, Caura Valley, La Vuelta, 1 S . Exp. 32 

 millim. Type f 6 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*314ff. Sphecosoma matta. (Plate IV. fig. 30.) 



Sphecosoma matta, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1914, ined. pi. i. f. 2. 



S • Head blackish irrorated with white, the sides of frons white ; 

 the back of head yellow, palpi yellow except basal joint ; thorax 

 yellow, the tegula? black at tips, the patagia edged witli black, the 

 dorsum of thorax with black fascia ; tibia? and tarsi with some 

 blackish at extremities ; abdomen with the two basal segments 

 yellow, the 1st with black bar and three streaks, the 2nd with 

 some fulvous at base, the other segments blackish banded with 

 yellow, the ventral surface yellow. Fore wing hyaline, the veins 

 and margins narrowly black, slight fulvous streaks below the costa 

 and above base of inner margin. Hind wing hyaline, the veins 

 and margins narrowly black. 



Hab. S. Braztl, Sao Paulo, Aracatuba (I). Jones), type f cJ in 

 Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 22 millim. 



