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526. Cosmosoma telephus. 



Glaucopis telephus, Wlk. i. 170(1851); Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett, 



i. f. 242 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 142. 

 Cosmosoma pyrrhostethus, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 388 (1876) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 142. 

 Cosmosoma coccineum, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 388 (1876) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 142. 



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

 scarlet, with black and blue patch on metathorax ; abdomen black, 

 subdorsal scarlet basal patches with blue spot between them, and a sub- 

 dorsal series of blue spots ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black. 

 Fore wing with the base scarlet, a streak on costa to beyond middle 

 and on inner margin to middle ; a black discocellular patch ; the 

 terminal band very wide on apical area and expanding at tornus. 

 Hind wing with scarlet streak on inner margin ; the terminal band 

 expanding at apex and tornus. 



$ without the black and blue spot on metathorax ; the disco- 

 cellular patch of fore wing reduced. 



Hah. Colombia, 1 S , type pyrrhostethus ; Venezuela, 3 $ , type ; 

 Brazil, Espiritu ISanto, type coccmeum, the abdomen of which does 

 not belong to it. Kvj^. 44 millim. 



527. Cosmosoma achemon. 



Zygcena achemon, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii, p. 162 (1781); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 141. 

 Eiichromia tyrrhene, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Scbmett. iii. p. 23, ft'. 483-484 (1827). 

 Cosmosoma voltamna, Uruee, A. M. N. II. (G) xx. p. 303 (1807). 



S . Head black, the frons and vertex metallic blue ; antennae 

 white at tips ; thorax orange-red, black below ; legs with patches 

 of blue ; abdomen black, with dorsal red stripe and subdorsal series 

 of metallic blue spots ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black. 

 Fore wing with orange-red basal patch, and streaks below costa and 

 above inner margin running nearly to termen ; an orange-red 

 patch edged with black below end of cell between veins 2 and 4; 

 the terminal baud very wide on apical area and expanding at 

 tornus. Hind wing with some red at base ; the terminal band 

 expanding at apex and tornus. 



$ with the dorsal red stripe very broad and the ventral surface 

 red ; no red patch between veins 2 and 4 of fore wing; hind wing- 

 sometimes with some red on inner edge of terminal band above 

 tornus. 



Hah. Jamaica (Gosse, Martin); Haiti (Tweeche); Brazil, San- 

 tarem (Bates). Exp., c? 28, $ 34 millim. Type tvo^famna in CoU. 

 Druce. 



528. Cosmosoma liypocheilus, n. sp. (Plate IX. fig. 27.) 



(5". Head black, with some metallic blue on vertex; antennse 

 white at tips ; thorax scarlet above, black below ; legs with metallic 

 blue on coxae ; abdomen orange-scarlet, with lateral black banda 



