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*1071 b. Heliura emerentia. (Plate XVIII. fig. 1.) 



Helium emerentia, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlii. p. 344 (1898). 



6 • Head and thorax black ; head and tegulse with patches of 

 metallic blue ; sides of irons, base of palpi, and coxse white ; abdomen 

 brilliant metallic blue, with segmental black lines, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing black with hyaline spot below middle 

 of cell and patches beyond the cell above veins 6, 5, 4 and small 

 spot below 4. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins black ; 

 the terminal band expanding widely on terminal area and from 

 vein 2 to tornus, with irregular inner edge. 



Hab. Ecuador, Loja, type t 6 in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 30 

 millim. 



*1071 c. Heliura viridicingulata. (Plate XVIII. fig. 2.) 

 Heliura viridicingulata, Roths. Nov. Zool. six. p. 168 (1912). 



cJ . Head and thorax dark chocolate-brown, the frons at sides, 

 back of head, and tegulse at sides with white points ; palpi with the 

 1st joint white at extremity; coxye white ; abdomen black-brown 

 with lateral metallic green bands, the ventral surface white except at 

 extremity". Fore wing very dark chocolate-brown ; a small elongate 

 seniihvaline mark below middle of cell and elongate postmedial 

 hyaline spots between veins 7 and 3. Hind wing hyaline, the 

 veins and margins black-brown, the terminal band expanding at 

 apex and from vein 2 to inner margin. 



Hab. Peru, R. Toro, Le Merced (Simons), type t 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 28 millim. 



*1071 d. Heliura excavata. 



Eurereon excavata, Dogn. Hot. Nouv. Am. Slid, i. p. 5 (1910). 

 Eucereon excavata, vax.fiava, Dogn. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, i. p. G (1910). 



Hind wing of male with the termen strongly excised from 

 below apex to vein 1 where it is produced to a point, the tornus 



Fig. 47. — Heliura excav< 



obliquely truncate, the costa lobe'd at base and excised at middle; 

 vein 2 from close to lower angle of cell, 3, 4 from angle. 



<3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown; vertex of head 

 white with two crimson spots behind, the basal joint of antenna- 



