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510 b. Cosmosoma vespoides. (Plate IX. fig. G.) 



Pcecilosoma vespoides, Schaus, Pr, U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 186 (1905). 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange ; palpi at tips, antenna?, 

 a patch on back of head, teguke, and patagia in front and the latter 

 at tips black ; pro- and metathorax with paired black spots ; pectus 

 and legs black and orange ; abdomen with segmental black bands 

 expanding into lateral spots ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins 

 narrowly black. Fore wing with orange streak below costa to 

 beyond middle and some orange at base of inner margin ; the ter- 

 minal band expanding slightly at apex and tornus. Hind wing 

 with the black expanding slightly at apex ; the inner area black ; 

 the underside with the base orange. 



Ilnb. Peru, Carab.iya, type f S m U.S. Nat. Mus., La Oroya 

 (Ockenden), 1 d . Exp. 28 millim. 



*510 c. Cosmosoma citrina. 



Cosmosoma citriuum, Roths. Nov. Zool, xviii. p. 3-1 (1911), & xx. p. 470, 

 pi. xiii. f. 7. 



5 . Head dark brown ; palpi at base and guhe yellow ; frons 

 white at sides; thorax pale yellow with dark brown spots on pro- 

 and metathorax and shoulders ; tibiae and tarsi suffused with 

 brown ; abdomen pale yellow with dorsal series of dark brown 

 spots, the ventral surface with brown lines on medial segments. 

 Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins brown ; the base pale 

 yellow with irregular outer edge ; the terminal band expanding 

 widely on apical area. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, margins, 

 and inner area brown ; the extreme base yellow ; the terminal band 

 expanding somewhat on apical area ; the underside with the base 

 of cell and costal area and basal half of inner margin pale yellow. 

 Rab. Ignotus ; type f $ in Coll. Eothschild. Exp. 42 millim. 



*514rt. Cosmosoma galbana. (Plate VIII. fig. 16.) 

 Cosmosoma galbana, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) ix. p. 35 (1912). 



S . Head black ; thorax yellow, the legs fuscous brown ; abdo- 

 men yellow, the extremity black. Fore wing hyaline, the veins 

 and margins black ; the extreme base yellow ; the terminal band 

 expanding widely on apical area and below vein 2. Hind wing 

 hyaline, the veins and margins black ; the terminal band expanding 

 on apical area. 



Hob. Costa Kica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), type t o* in U.S. Nat, 

 Mus. Exp. 34 millim. 



514 b. Cosmosoma thiacia, n. n. (Plate VIII. fig. 17.) 



Cosmosoma Una, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) ix. p. 35 (1912), nee Druce 

 (1899). 



Head and thorax black ; abdomen yellow with the two terminal 



