208 AMAT11XE. 



718 a. Macrocneme lamprosoma, n. sp. (Plate XI. fig. 10.) 



S ■ Head and thorax black with metallic blue and white spots 

 at sides of frons, on tegulae, shoulders, and metathorax and streaks 

 on patagia; antennas white at tips ; palpi with white points at base 

 and some blue and white on 1st and 2nd joints ; pectus and coxae 

 with white spots, the legs with blue streaks ; abdomen brilliant 

 silvery blue, the ventral valve tipped with white, the rest of ventral 

 surface black with subventral series of white points. Fore wing 

 black glossed with blue ; a white point at base followed by three 

 blue points ; some blue suffusion on medial area in, above, and 

 below the cell and a streak above vein 1. Hind wing black-brown 

 slightly glossed with blue. Underside of both wings suffused with 

 metallic blue to just beyond the cell, except on inner area. 



2 . Without any of the white spots and points. 



Hal. Panama/ La Chorrera {Dolby-Tyler), 1 <$ , 1 2 type. 

 Exp. 32millim. 



718 b. Macrocneme cyllarus. 



Macrocneme cyllarus, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 29 (1896) ; id. 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 336, pi. 71, f. 2. 



2 . Head and thorax black, the frons and vertex of head, tegulse, 

 shoulders, and metathorax with metallic blue patches, the patagia 

 with metallic blue streaks ; antennae white at tips ; coxae with blue 

 patches, the fore and mid tibiae streaked with blue ; abdomen 

 black suffused with silvery blue and with silvery blue dorsal and 

 lateral streaks. Fore wing black-brown with metallic blue subbasal 

 points below costa and cell, streak on vein 1 and suffusion on 

 medial and postmedial areas from costa to submedian fold. Hind 

 wing black-brown. Underside of fore wing with metallic blue 

 streak below base of costa and suffusion in and below end of cell. 

 Hind wing with some blue suffusion on basal half, on costal area, 

 and in the cell. 



Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 $. Tobago I. (J. J. 

 Walker), 3 $ . Exp. 32-36 millim. 



*71Sc. Macrocneme nordina. (Plate XL fig. 11.) 



Macrocneme nordina, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. ix. p. 41 (1901). 



2 . Dull black ; antennae white at tips ; frons, vertex of head, 

 gulae, teguke, patagia, meso- and metathorax with patches of 

 metallic blue ; coxae and fore tibiae in front blue ; abdomen with 

 lateral blue stripe. Fore wing with short blue stripe at base of 

 inner margin. Underside of fore wing with blue streaks on basal 

 half of costa and below cell ; hind wing with blue streak on basal 

 half of costa and short streaks in cell and on inner margin. 



Hab. Mexico, Guadalajara, type t 2 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



