CHKOSTOSOMA. 



21' 



Sect. II. Hind wing with vein 3 stalked with 2. 



A. Thorax and abdomen scarlet cardinale. 



B. Thorax black ; abdomen scarlet, with the terminal 



segments black semiruhrum. 



C. Thorax and abdomen black, the latter with blue and 



white stripes tricolor. 



*454. Chrostosoma cardinale. (Plate VIII. fig. 8.) 



Chrostoso/na cardinale, Schaus J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 189 (1898). 



2 . Head black, frons white ; thorax and abdomen scarlet ; legs 

 with the tibiae and tarsi brown ; wings hyaline, the veins and 

 margins black. Fore wing with the base scarlet ; the terminal 

 band expanding widely on apical area and sliglitly at tornus. Hind 

 wing with the terminal band expanding towards apex ; the inner 

 area black, fringed with scarlet cilia. 



Ilah. Colombia. Exj). 36 millim. Type t in Coll. Schaus. 



455. Chrostosoma semirubrum, n. sp. (Plate IX. fig. 1.) 



(S . Head and thorax black ; frons with whitish patch ; shoulders 

 with scarlet spots ; coxa^ and hind tarsi whitish ; abdomen scarlet, 

 with the three terminal segments black ; wings hyaline, the veins, 

 and margins broadly, black. Fore wing with medial black band 

 expanding on discocellulars ; the terminal band expanding very 

 widely on apical area. Hind wing with the terminal band ex- 

 panding towards costa ; the inner area black. 



2 without white on frons or legs. 



Bah. Brazil, Sao Paulo, 1 2 type. Exj^. 24 millim. 



*45G. Chrostosoma tricolor. 



Heterodontia tricolor, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 105. f. 25 (1874) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 904. 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; palpi in front, frons, 

 neck, points on tegulae and patagia, and patches on pectus white ; 

 legs white, striped with black ; metathorax with blue patch : 



abdomen with bluish-white 

 subdorsal stripe, lateral white 

 stripes, and the ventral surface 

 white; wings black. Fore 

 wing with short metallic blue 

 streak below base of median 

 nervure ; an oblique orange 

 patch in end of cell and ex- 

 tending to vein 1 ; an oblique 

 hyaline band beyond the cell between veins 3 and 7. Hind wing 

 with the inner area brilliant blue ; a blue streak in cell ; a hyaline 

 fascia below the cell, in lower end of cell, and between bases of 

 veins 2 and 4. 



Hah. Amazons. Exp. 30 millim. Type t in Coll. liothschild. 



Y'\g.\^'3. — Ch'0i<tomi,ui tricolor, (^ . \. 



