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wing. Underside of hind wing brilliant blue to just beyond the 

 cell ; a white point near base of costa. 



Hab. Venezuela, Merida, type 2 hi Coll. Dognin ; Brazil, 

 1 6 in Mus. Buenos Ayres. Exp. 42 millim. 



69G. Macrocneme lades. 



Larva. Jorgensen, Zeits. Wissens. Insectenbiol. ix. p. 74 (1913). 

 Dark with sky-blue warts ; forms a thick cocoon of silk and 

 hair. 



696 b. Macrocneme guyanensis. (Plate XI. fig. 4.) 



Macrocneme guyanensis, Dogn. Hot. Nouv. Am. Sud, ii. p. 6 (1911). 



S ■ Head and thorax black-brown, the metathorax metallic 

 bronze, and the tegula? and base of patagia with some metallic 

 green ; palpi with white points at sides of 1st joint ; frons with 

 lateral white points ; tegula? with white points dorsally and at sides ; 

 pectus in front and behind and the coxae with small white spots, 

 the hind tarsi fringed with white hair above at extremity ; abdomen 

 metallic bronze, the basal segment with subdorsal, lateral, and two 

 sublateral white points. Fore wing black-brown ; white points at 

 base below costa and cell ; a subbasal metallic green spot below 

 costa and an oblique fascia below basal half of cell ; a metallic 

 green fascia on inner margin from near base to near tornus ; two 

 metallic green streaks in end of cell and streaks above and below 

 end of cell. Hind wing black-brown with slight white streak in 

 base of cell and a few green streaks beyond its lower extremity. 

 Underside of fore wing with metallic green suffusion in and above 

 the cell ; hind wing with metallic green suffusion on costal area 

 and in upper part of cell to beyond middle. 



Hab. Trinidad {Kaye), 2 6 ; Br. Guiaxa {Bod way), 1 6 ; 

 Fr. Guiaxa, St. Laurent Maroni {Le Moult), type t 6 in Coll. 

 Dognin. Exp. 32 millim. 



697 a. Macrocneme semiviridis. (Plate XL fig. .3.) 



Macrocneme semiviridis, Druce, A.M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 287 (1911). 



Head and thorax black-brown, the mesothorax with pair of 

 metallic blue spots, the patagia streaked with blue ; palpi with the 

 basal joint white ; frons with lateral white points ; antenna? with 

 the shaft white towards tips ; tegulse with slight dorsal white 

 marks ; legs with metallic blue streaks, the coxa? with white spots ; 

 abdomen black suffused with metallic blue, the 1st two segments 

 with lateral white spots, the ventral surface with white spots 

 except on terminal segments. Fore wing with the basal half 

 brilliant metallic blue, the terminal half black-brown. Hind wing 

 brilliant metallic blue, the apical area and termen black-browD ; 

 the underside with small white spot at base. 



Hab. Colombia (Fassl), 1 cS , Choco Slopes, Rio Siato. type t 

 $ in Coll. Joicey ; Ecuador, Paramba, 1 §. Exp. 12 millim. 



