COSMOSOMA. 241 



2 with thick ridges of oraiige-fulvous hair on extremity of 

 abdomen below. 



Hab. Mexico, Tabasco (77. H. Smith) ; Guatemala, Las Mercedes 

 (Champion), type ; Panama, Chiriqui, Bugaba {Chamjiion)^ Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Eccp. 26-34 millim. 



51 G. Cosmosoma durca. (Plate IX. fig. 23.) 



Cosmosoma durca, Sehaus, Journ. New York Ent, Soc. iv. p. 132 (1896). 

 ? Lamockaris niqrlpes, Heyl. CM. Ent. Soc. Beige, xxxiv. p. xiv (]890); 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 140. 



Black ; frons, vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, thorax above 

 and at sides with patches of metallic blue scales ; tarsi white at 

 extremities ; abdomen witli lateral patches of metallic blue scales ; 

 wings hyaline, the veins and margins rather broadly black. Fore 

 wing with black basal parch with metallic blue spot on it ; the 

 terminal band of nearly even width throughout, but slightly 

 expanding at apex and tornus of each wing. 



Bab. Brazil, Sao Paulo, 1 (5" , 1 $ (Jones). Exp. 38 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Sehaus. 



517. Cosmosoma elegans. (Plate IX. fig. 12.) 



Cosmosoma elegans, Butl. Jouru. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 386 (1876) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 140. 



J . Black ; frons with two white points ; '^'ertex of head, tegulae, 

 patagia, and sides of thorax with metallic blue patches ; tarsi white 

 at extremities ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black ; the 

 terminal band very wide on apical area of fore wing, and expanding 

 at tornus and at apex and tornus of hind wing. 



Hah. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 c^ type. Kvp. 40 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing with the lower part of cell of normal length ; veins 2 and 

 4 rather shortly stalked ; pulpi short. 

 A. Hind wing of nude with the terminal area clothed with 

 rough scales on underside. 

 a. Abdomen of male with narrow ventral valve covering 

 basal segments. 



a^. Shoulders with crimson spots oratha. 



b^. Shoulders with white spots orathidia. 



*518. Cosmosoma oratha. 



Autochloris oratha, Druce, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 281. 

 (5 , Black ; frons white ; tegula? and metathorax with patches of 



blue ; shoulders with crim- 

 son spots ; fore coxce with 

 white patches ; legs slightly 

 streaked with blue; abdo- 

 men with traces of sub- 

 dorsal blue fascia and a 

 dorsal patch at exJ^remity 



Pig. 108. — Cosmosoma oratha, (^ . {. the 1st segment with 



lateral crimson spots ; the 



vol. 1. R 



