SAURITA. IS.") 



black-brown, the terminal band expanding towards apex and into 



dentate marks below vein 2. 



llab. Colombia, Muzo (Fassl), type f 6 in Coll. Dognin. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



*602</. Saurita perspicua. (Plate IX. fig. 31.) 

 Sauvita perspicua, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Miis. xxix. p. 187 (1905). 



2 • Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; shoulders and 

 patagia with crimson patches; fore coxae whitish in front; 

 abdomen slightly tinged with blue; wings hyaline, the veins and 

 margins dark brown. Fore wing with the base and inner area to 

 near tornus rather broadly brown. Hind wing with a wedge- 

 shaped patch of brown suffusion along vein 1 from termen to 

 before middle. 



Ilab. Trinidad, type f $ in U.S. Nat, Mus. Exp. 30 millim. 



*603a. Saurita gracula. (Plate IX. fig. 32.) 



Cosmosoma gracula, Dog-n. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, ii. p. 5 (1911). 



6 • Head and thorax black suffused with metallic blue ; coxa' 

 white ; abdomen black with crimson dorsal patch at base and 

 lateral metallic blue bands, some sublateral blue suffusion at base, 

 the 2nd segment with white line, the ventral surface with 

 white suffusion on terminal half except at extremity. Fore wing 

 hyaline, the veins and margins black, the latter rather broadly ; 

 a crimson patch at base ; a broad black discoidal band narrowing 

 somewhat below the cell ; the terminal band expanding very 

 broadly on apical area, its inner edge angled inwards at vein 5, and 

 expanding below 2 to meet the medial band. Hind wing hyaline, 

 the veins and margins black, the narrow black terminal band 

 expanding very broadly on apical area with slightly waved inner 

 edge and expanding slightly below vein 2. Underside with some 

 crimson at base of wings ; hind wing with some blue irroration on 

 medial part of the black costal area. 



Huh. Colombia, Cali (Fassl), type f J in Coll. Dognin. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



603 b. Saurita rubripuncta. (Plate X. tig. 1.) 

 Saurita rubrvpuncta, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 178 (1911). 



?. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; frons, shoulders, and 

 dorsum of thorax with metallic blue spots; pectus witli white 

 patches in front and at sides, the coxa' witli white patches; 

 abdomen with pair of subdorsal crimson spots at base and metallic 

 blue lateral patches, the ventral surface with white segmental line 

 on 2nd segment and patch on medial segments. Fore wing b valine, 

 the veins and margins black ; the base black with a crimson patch ; 



