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519 a. Cosmosoma pellucida. (Plate VIII. fig. 23.) 



Cosmosoma pellucida, Lathy, Entom. xxxii. p. 117 (1899). 



5 • Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; irons, shoulders, and 

 coxae with white spots ; vertex of head, tegula?, patagia, and meta- 

 thorax with patches of blue ; abdomen with crimson subdorsal 

 patches on first segment and lateral fasciae on 1st four segments, 

 the ventral surface white to near extremity ; wings hyaline, the 

 veins and margins black. Fore wing with a large discoidal lunule 

 conjoined to the costal fascia ; the fascia on inner margin expanding 

 at base ; the terminal band expanding very widely on apical area 

 and at tornus where it emits a streak in submedian fold. Hind 

 wing with the cell and inner area black ; a terminal band expanding 

 on apical area. 



Hab. Beazil, St. Palma, 1 § type. Exp. 38 millim. 



*520 a. Cosmosoma achemonides. (Plate VIII. fig. 24.) 



Coxmnxoma achemonides, Dog-nin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg\ li. p. 223 (1907). 



$ . Head black with metallic blue patch on frons and paired 

 spots behind antennae which are whitish at tips ; thorax searlel ; 

 pectus and legs black with metallic blue patches at sides and on 

 fore coxae in front ; abdomen black with metallic blue lateral 

 patches and at base of ventral surface, a broad scarlet dorsal stripe 

 except at extremity. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins 

 narrowly black; a black .discoidal lunule; the base and stripes 

 below costa and above inner margin orange-scarlet ; a large patch 

 of orange-scarlet below base of vein 4, between veins 3 and 2 

 to termen, and below extremity of vein 2 ; the terminal area 

 orange-scarlet, broad at apex, narrowing to vein 3. Hind wing 

 hyaline, the veins black ; the basal half of costal area, the cell, 

 base of inner area, and cilia on inner margin orange-scarlet ; the 

 inner area and a broad terminal band black-brown. 



$ . Fore wing without the orange-scarlet patch between end of 

 cell and termen, the terminal area black-brown slightly tinged with 

 scarlet ; hind wing with the terminal band much narrower. 



Hab. Peru, Cagon, types f J 5 $ hi Coll. Dognin. Exp. 34 

 millim. 



521. Cosmosoma festiva. 



Subsp. 1. c? • Tegulae, patagia, and thorax wholly orange ; 

 abdomen with orange dorsal spots on 1st four segments. Fore 

 wing without orange marks on terminal area. 



Hab. Amazons, Villa Nova in Mus. Oxon. 



521 a. Cosmosoma remota, Wlk., trans, from p. 248 and insert 

 (syn.) :- 



Cosmosoma sicula, Dyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 175 (1S99) 



