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a". Fore wing without white points at base,., hercyna. 

 6'. Ab:lomen with tlie extremity black. 



a^\ Fore wing with large discoidal black 



patch braconides. 



}/'. Fore wing without discoidal patch siibostictum. 



c*. Abdomen black. 



«'. Patagia and abdomen with orange patches, karpali/ce. 

 6'. Patagia and abdomen without orange 

 patches. 

 a^. Abdomen with conjoined lateral crimson 

 patches on basal segments. 

 a7. Abdomen with dorsal and subdorsal 

 series oF white spots ; wings with the 



hyaline patches large reffia. 



b"^. Abdomen with the dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal spots blue ; wings with the 



hyaline patches much smaller bogotense. 



¥'. Abdomen with paired basal crimson 

 spots. 

 a'. Abdomen with lateral orange spots on 

 terminal segments ; fore wing hyaline 



ye] low intensum. 



b''. Abdomen without orange spots ; fore 



wing hyaline ladan. 



c^. Abdomen with one dorsal crimson spot 



at base stryma. 



523. Cosmosoma teuthras. 



Glaucopis teuthras, Wlk. i. IGS (1854) ; Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 31, pi. 13. f. 5 ; 

 Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 60 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 142. 



Head black, with metallic blue on frons and vertex ; thorax 

 scarlet, black below with lateral patches of metallic blue ; abdomen 

 black, with lateral basal patches of scarlet and dorsal and subdorsal 

 series of metallic blue spots meeting on dorsum at base and extremity ; 



wings hyaline, the veins 

 / and margins black. Fore 

 y wing with crimson fascia 

 below costa, reaching to well 

 j^ beyond middle, the base 



scarlet, and a scarlet fascia 

 below vein 1 to beyond 

 Fig. 110. — Cosmosoma teuthras, (^ . \. middle; a large black-edged 



crimson discocellular spot ; 

 the terminal blackish band broad and occupying the whole apical 

 area. Hind wing with the base scarlet, running outward along 

 costa and inner margin ; the terminal band expanding on apical 

 area and near tornus. 



Hah, Panama, Bugaba {Champion), Godman-Salvin Coll.; 

 Colombia, Zell. Coll. ; Venezuela, type. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



Subsp. 1. restricttcm, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. sii. p, 389 (1876) ; 



Kirby, Cat, Het. p. 142. 

 The scarlet on inner area of fore wing not reaching middle, and 

 the subcostal fascia slender. 



Hah. Beazil, Santarem (Bates), 1 J type. 



