SAURITA. 1 S[) 



*612«. Saurita cretheis. (Plate X. fig. 9.) 



Vycladia cretheis, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 378 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 145. 



<5 . Black-brown ; thorax and 1st segment of abdomen scarlet 

 above; abdomen bine-black above with lateral series of metallic 

 bine points. Fore wing with two slight hyaline streaks in end of 

 cell; a narrow wedge-shaped streak below the cell and a series of 

 patches between bases of veins 2 to 7. Hind wing with hyaline 

 streak in and beyond lower end of cell and a short streak beyond 

 upper angle. 



Hub. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley), type f c? in Coll. Joicey. 

 Exp. 2G millim. 



G15. Saurita temenus, insert (syn.) :— 

 Saurita venezuelensis, Klages, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 538 (190G). 



GIG. Saurita coacisa, insert (syn.) : — 



Saurita thoracica, Klages, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 538 (1906). 



Venezuela. 



*617 a. Saurita anthracina. (Plate X. fig. 10.) 



Saurita anthracina, Klages, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 537 (1906). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; vertex of head with 

 metallic bine spots and some whitish scales ; teguke, shoulders, and 

 mesothorax with paired metallic blue spots and some white scales, 

 the meta thorax with single spot ; pectus with blue spots ; legs 

 black-brown; abdomen with dorsal and lateral lines and sublateral 

 series of spots green turning to blue at base. Fore wing black- 

 brown slightly suffused with metallic blue. Hind wing black-brown. 

 Underside of fore wing with metallic blue streak on base of sub- 

 costal nervure and diffused streak on median nervure branching on 

 veins 2, 3, 4 ; hind wing with diffused metallic bine streak on 

 median nervuie. 



Ilab. Venezuela. Suapure (Klages). Exp. 41 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from tvpe in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



G20. Saurita bipuncta. 



Pupa. Ji'.rgensen, Zeits. Wissens. Insektenbiol. ix. p. 33 (1913). 

 In a loose network cocoon formed of hairs. 



G22. Saurita tipulina, insert (syn.) : — 

 Saurita obscura, Klages, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 538 (1906). 



