96 AMATID.E. 



their ventral sides. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins 

 black ; a black discoidal bar conjoined to the costal fascia ; the 

 black terminal band expanding at vein 2. Hind wing hyaline, the 

 veins and margins black ; the terminal band expanding towards 

 apex and expanding below vein 2 with irregular inner edge ; the 

 underside with some blue on base of costa. 



Hab. Fr. Guiana, Nouveau Chantier (Le Moult), type f $ in 

 Coll. Dognin. Exp. 48 millim. 



*331 a. Homceocera rhodocera. (Plate V. fig. 2.) 



Homceocera rhodocera, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 135 (1904). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; antennae crimson ; palpi 

 in front, frons, vertex of head, and metathorax with silvery-blue 

 patches ; mid and hind coxae white, the femora with slight blue 

 streaks, the tarsi crimson except the hind tarsi at base ; abdomen 

 with slight orange dorsal band on 1st segment followed by narrow 

 subdorsal and lateral white spots at hase of next segment and blue 

 spots at its extremity, by lateral and sublateral white spots on 

 3rd segment then by subdorsal blue fascia on the others, the ventral 

 surface with slight white patch at base. Fore wing hyaline, the 

 costal half suffused with red-brown ; the veins and margins 

 narrowly blackish ; the inner margin yellow, expanding to above 

 vein 1 at base. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 black, the marginal line emitting teeth above and below vein 1 ; 

 the underside with the costal area crimson except costal edge. 



Hab. Panama, Chiriqui, type f $ in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



*334 a. Homceocera duronia. (Plate V. fig. 3.) 



Homcecera duronia, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 287 (1911). 



d" . Plead and thorax black-brown ; antennae with the shaft 

 white towards tips ; tibiae except towards base and tarsi pure white, 

 the base of tibia? suffused with metallic blue ; abdomen black 

 suffused with metallic blue, the rough hair on basal segments black- 

 brown, subdorsal orange spots at base, the 4th to 7th segments with 

 orange bands, the 4th segment with sublateral orange spots. Fore 

 wing hyaline, the veins and margins black ; the base black suffused 

 with metallic blue, a white point at base and small subbasal spot 

 below costa ; a discoidal black spot ; the terminal line expanding 

 into a patch below apex and small wedge-shaped mark at vein 2. 

 Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins black ; the inner area 

 clothed with black-brown hair ; the cell and basal costal area pure 

 white. Underside of fore wing with the base of inner area pure 

 white ; hind wing with the cell and costal area black-brown. 



Hab. Colombia, typef 6 hi Coll. Joicey. Exp. 40 millim. 



