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thorax above, and legs with patches of metallic blue scales ; abdo- 

 men with subdorsal and sublateral series of metallic blue spots : 

 wings h^'aline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing with 

 orange-red basal spot and fine streaks below costa and above inner 

 margin ; a discocellular black lunule ; the terminal band expanding, 

 and with patches of orange-red on apical area and at tornus. Hind 

 wing with the terminal band expanding at apex and tornus. 



(5* with the terminal band much wider at apex and tornus ; on 

 fore wing with no orange-red on apical area, and the black running 

 up below vein 2 to the cell. 



Hah. Venezuela, 1 c5" 1 $ , type. Exj). 32 millim. 



532. Cosmosoma eumele. (Plate IX. fig. 28.) 

 Loxojjhlebia eimelis, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 376 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 135. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; antennas white at tips ; 

 patagia streaked wdth orange ; frous and metathorax with patches 

 of metallic blue; abdomen with dorsal blue spots on first two segments 

 and subdorsal and sublateral series ; wangs hyaline, the veins and 

 margins rather narrowly black. Fore wing with prominent orange 

 streak below costa and two above inner margin, the lower extending 

 to beyond middle ; the terminal band expanding somewhat towards 

 apex and with some orange on its inner side near apex and 

 tornus. Hind wing with the inner area black. Underside of both 

 wings with subcostal orange streaks. 



Bab. Ecuador, Intaj {BacJdey); Brazil, Casa Branca, 1 $; 

 Bolivia, Songo, 1 (^ . Ex-p. 34 millim. Type t in Coll. Druce. 



533. Cosmosoma aiinexum. 



LcBmocharis annexa, Herr.-Schiiff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 257 (1854) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 141. 



(S . Black; vertex of head and tegulao with patches of blue; 

 abdomen with subdorsal series of blue spots ; wings hyaline, the 

 veins and margins rather broadly black. Fore wing with orange 

 subcostal streak expanding towards apex ; two streaks at base of 

 inner area ; an orange patch betw^een veins 2 and 4 ; the terminal 

 band of both wings expanding widely on apical area. 



Ucib. Brazil, Kio Janeiro, Casa Branca, 1 (S . Exp. 30 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Staudinger. 



534. Cosmosoma ethodsea. 



Cosmosoma cthodcsa, Druce, A. M. N. H. (fi) iv. p. 84 (1889) ; Biol. Ceutr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 344, pi. 71. f. 20 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 140. 



$. Head black ; frons wliitish ; antennae with the basal joints 

 below and extremities white, some blue on vertex of head ; thorax 

 golden yellow ; tegulae black and blue ; patagia edged with black ; 

 thorax black below, with lateral white patches ; abdomen black, 

 with five golden-yellow bands ; subdorsal white spots on 1st seg- 



