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and inner margin. Hind "wing with the basal half orange, with 

 small black patch at base of costa ; the terminal halt' or third black. 

 Hah. Mexico, Orizaba [Salle), 1 J , type Icetifera, Tabasco (H. ti. 

 Smith), Yucatan [Oaumer) ; Guatemala {Chanipion) ; Nicaragua 

 (Michardson, Belt), Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Honduras, type arcti- 

 fascla ; Colombia, Veragua, type latifasciatus ; Brazil yKacUn). 

 Exi^., S 28-34, $ 40-52 millim. 



514. Cisthene cynossema. 



Euscino cynossema, Druce, A. M. N. H. ((>) xiii. p. 176 (1894) ; id. Biul. 

 Oentr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 397, pi. 77. f. 23 (1897). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange ; palpi, antennae, legs, and 

 ventral surfaee of abdomen exceptt at base and extremity black. 

 Fore wing bluish black ; a broad orange band just before middle 

 with curved inner edge; a band from costa beyond middle, towards 

 which it expands, to termen, on which it extends from vein 4 to 

 toruus and somewhat attenuate at middle. Hind wing with the 

 basal half orange, with subbasal black patch from costa almost to 

 inner margin ; the terminal half black. 



Hah. Mexico, Guerrero {H. H. Smith), 1 (5,3 $ , type ; Guate- 

 mala (Rodriguez^, 1 § , Godman-Salvin Coll. Ex2)., d 34, 5 38 

 millim. 



515. Cisthene quadrifasciata. (Plate XXV. fig. 23.) 

 Gerba quadrifasciata, Wlk. xxxi. 270 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 293. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange ; antennae, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen blackish. Fore wing black-brown, with 

 broad orange-yellow band jast before middle with slightly sinuous 

 edges ; a broad curved subterminal band from just below costa to 

 jast below vein 2. Hind wing black-brown, with orange patch from 

 middle of costa to median nervure. 



Hab. Mexico, Oajaca (Salle), 1 c? type. Exj). 30 millim. 



516. Cisthene praxis. 



Euscino praxi§, Drude, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 176 (1894) ; id. Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 397, pi. 78. f. 4. 



Palpi, frons, and antennae black ; vertex of head and thorax 

 orange ; legs and abdomen black. Fore wing grey-black ; a narrow 

 orange-yellow band just before middle, slightly angled on median 

 nervure ; a narrow curved subterminal band from below costa to 

 vein 2. Hind wing with the basal half orange-yellow, with fuscous 

 patch at base of costa ; the terminal half black. 



Hab. Mexico, Durango {Becker), 1 (5 , 1 $ type, Godman-SalviL 

 Coll. Exp. 28-34 millim. 



This may be a variety of ci/pris. 



