COSMOSOMA. 1Jj7 



blue spot on shoulders ; coxa? with blue patches ; abdomen with 

 slight scarlet subdorsal marks on 1st segment, the other segments 

 with dorsal metallic blue points, large subdorsal patches and some 

 sublateral spots. Fore wing hyaline ; a scarlet spot at base of 

 inner margin ; the veins black ; the margins broadly black ; a 

 discoidal spot ; the terminal band expanding widely on apical area 

 and dentate at vein 2. Hind wing hyaline ; the veins and inner 

 area black ; the terminal band expanding widely on apical area. 

 Hab. Trinidad (Kaye), 1 d 1 , 1 ? type. Exp. 40 millim. 



4S2 c. Cosmosoma melathoracia. 



Cosmosoma melathoracia, Kaye, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1901, p. 115, pi. v. f. 10. 



5 . Black ; antenna? whitish at tips ; Vertex of head, teguhe. and 

 shoulders with metallic blue spots; coxa? and base of femora 

 scarlet ; abdomen with scarlet subdorsal streaks on 1st segment ; a 

 dorsal series of blue spots and subdorsal points on the two terminal 

 segments. Fore wing hyaline ; the veins and margins black ; a 

 black discoidal spot; the terminal band expanding widely on apical 

 area. Hind wing hyaline ; the veins and margins black ; the ter- 

 minal band expanding on apical area, and dentate at vein 1. 



Hub. Tkimdad, Tabaquite {Kaye), 1 £ type. Exp. 42 millim. 



4S7 a. Cosmosoma flavicornis, Druce, trans, from Gymnelia, 

 no. 395. 



*502 a. Cosmosoma pytna. (Plate VIII. fig. 12.) 



Cosmosoma -pytna, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xviii. p. 78 (1906). 



6 . Head and thorax black; palpi with the 1st joint and the 2nd 

 in front orange; frons orange; back of head with paired blue 

 spots ; tegula? orange with black spot ; patagia broadly edged with 

 orange above ; metathorax orange with slight blue dorsal streak ; 

 pectus and base of legs orange ; abdomen black, the basal and 4th 

 and 5th segments orange, the black segments with subdorsal 

 metallic blue spots, the ventral surface orange, the three terminal 

 segments black with sublateral blue points on penultimate segment. 

 Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins rather widely black; a 

 blue spot at base ; an orange streak below costa to beyond middle 

 and two short streaks above base of inner margin ; the terminal 

 band expanding widely on apical area and slightly at tornus. Hind 

 wing hyaline, the veins and margins rather widely black ; the costa 

 and cell orange to beyond middle ; some orange on inner area near 

 base; the terminal band expanding on apical area. 



Kab. Teinidad, Caparo (Birch), type f in Coll. Joicey. Exp. 

 3S millim. 



