COSMOSOMA. 227 



Fore wing with discocoUular black spot ; the terminal band very wide 

 on apical area, and expanding at vein 2. Hind wing with the 

 terminal band wide at apex and expanding towards tornus. 



Hah. Dominica (Eliott), 2 d* 2 5 . E.vj). 48 millim. Type t in 

 Coll. Druce. 



475. Cosmosoma ignidorsia, n. sp. (Plate XVII. fig. 17.) 

 (S . Head and teguloe black ; antennae white at tips ; frons and 

 tegulae with metallic blue spots ; thorax scarlet ; shoulders with 

 black and blue spots; legs black; abdomen with the 1st segment 

 and lateral patches on '2nd scarlet, the remainder black with dorsal 

 and lateral series of blue spots ; the ventral valve with lateral white 

 spots ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins rather broadly black. 

 Fore wing with basal scarlet streak above inner margin, the ter- 

 minal band expanding widely to apex and slightly at tornus. 

 Rab. Brazil, Minas Geraes, 1 d type. Exp. 40 millim. 



476. Cosmosoma subflamma. 



Glaucopis suhflamma, Wlk. i. 159 (1854) ; Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 140. 

 Lamocharis panojx-s, Ilerr.-Schai!'. Aussereur. Schmett. i. p. 243 (1854) ; 

 Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 31, pi. 12. f. 9. 



2 . Black ; frons, vertex of head and thorax, tegulae and patagia 

 metallic blue ; thorax below scarlet ; legs black, the femora and 

 hind tibiae and tarsi striped with scarlet ; abdomen with dorsal 

 series of metallic blue spots and lateral spots on 2nd segment ; 



Fig. 106. — Cosmosoma suhflamma, (^ . \. 



wings hyaline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing with the 

 terminal band very broad on apical area and expanded at vein 2 ; 

 streaks in coll and submedian interspace ; hind wing with the 

 terminal band wide at apex. 



liab. Brazil, 1 5 typo. E.vjo. 42 millim. Ty])e f panojjes in 

 Coll. Staudinger. 



Subsp. 1. lueia, Scbaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 132 (1896). 



Mid and hind femora, tibiae and tarsi black ; hind femora at 

 extremity and tibiae at base black ; abdomen of male with the 

 valve white. 



Hah. Santa Lucia, 2 c? 1 $ . Type f in Coll. Schaus. 



477. Cosmosoma auge. 



S'phinx auge, luinn. Syst. Nat. i. (2) p. 807 (17<)7); Druce, Biol. Centr.- 



Am., Het. i. p. 60 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 141. 

 Cosmosoma omphale, Hiibn. Samml. Ex. Schmett. ii. (1827) ; Harr. Auier. 



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