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with sublateral series of four white points. Fore wing with 

 subbasal series of brilliant blue spots ; the interspaces suffused with 

 golden green from before middle to beyond middle. The underside 

 of both wings suffused with metallic green to beyond middle. 



Hab. Brazil, Petropolis, type t 6 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



*7145. Macrocneme occendeni. 



Poliopasta ockendeni, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 40 (1911), and xx. p. 470, 

 pi. xiii. f. 28. 



J 1 . Head and thorax black-brown, the frons, vertex of head, 

 tegulae, and shoulders with white spots ; mesothorax with pair 

 of minute metallic blue streaks, the meta thorax with blue spot ; 

 fore coxae and the tibiae tinged with blue, the hind tarsi fringed 

 with white hair at extremity ; abdomen black-brown tinged with 

 blue and with dorsal and lateral blue streaks, the ventral valve 

 edged with white and with lateral metallic blue spots. Fore wing 

 black-brown suffused with metallic blue except on basal area ; a 

 white point at base and subbasal white points below costa and cell. 

 Hind wing black-brown slightly suffused with metallic blue except 

 towards base. 



Fore wing with vein 10 from the cell. 



Hab. Br. Guiana, Tumatumari ; Peru, Carabaya,.B. Huacam- 

 ayo, La Union (Ockenden), type f 6 in Coll. Kothschild. Exp. 

 41 millim. 



714. Macrocneme vittata, insert (syn.) : — 



Macrocneme caurensis, Klages, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 540 (1906). 



Venezuela. 



*717«. Macrocneme maroniensis. (Plate XL fig. 9.) 



Macrocneme maroniensis, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 188 (1905). 



c? . Black ; frons and vertex of head with metallic blue spots ; 

 mesothorax with pair of blue points ; gulae white ; shoulders with 

 two white points ; coxa? white in front ; the ventral valve slightlv 

 edged with white followed by two white sublateral spots and slight 

 segmental lines. Fore wing with white at base followed by blue 

 points ; a slight blue streak in cell. Underside of fore wing with 

 blue suffusion on and below median nervure, the apical area suffused 

 with whitish ; hind wing with blue suffusion on costal area and 

 in cell. 



Hab. Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni, type f J in U.S. Xat. Mus. 

 Exp. 20 millim. 



