COSMOS OM A. 



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abdomen fulvous yellow, with segmental black linos and subdorsal 

 series of blue spots, the first four segments anteriorly edged with 

 white ; wings yellowish hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 black. 



Hah, Amazons, Villa Nova (Bates), 1 S > type t 2 odyneroides in 

 Mus. Oxon. Eccp. 34 millim. 



538. Cosmosoma pudicum. (Plate IX. fig. 14.) 



Cosmosoma imdica, Druce, A. M. N. II. (6) xiii. p. 353 (1894) ; Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 345. 



S . Head black ; frons with some white ; thorax and abdomen 

 pale golden yellow; legs and extremity of abdomen black; wings 

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

 yellow ; a discocellular black spot ; the terminal band wide at apex 

 and expanding at vein 2. Hind wing with the inner margin and 

 apical area black. 



Hah. Costa Hica, Santa Clara 1200 feet (Zurcher), 1 (S type 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Ex^y. 44 millim. 



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*539. Cosmosoma nelea. 



Cosmosoma nelea, Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot, Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 635, pi. 8. 

 f. 4 (1877) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 143. 



Head and teguloe black ; frons, spots on neck, and coxae white ; 

 thorax and abdomen yellow, the last three segments black ; logs 

 brown ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black, the terminal 

 band expanding widely on apical area of both wings and at tornus 

 of hind wing. Pore wing \^ ith white point at base of costa. 



Hah. Surinam. Type f in Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 36 millim. 



*540. Cosmosoma evadnes. 



Sphinx evadnes, Stoll, Pap, Exot. iv. pi. 357. A (1781) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 144. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow ; antennso and legs 

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

 Fore wing with black discoidal lunule ; the terminal band expanding 

 at apex of both wings and at tornus of fore wing. 



Hah. Surinam. Exp. 30 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



*541. Cosmosoma biseriatum. (Plate IX. fig. 16.) 

 Cosmosoma hiseriaUim, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vi. p. 138 (1898). 



(S . Head black, frons with blue patches ; tegulre black, with 

 blue spots ; patagia orange, edged with black ; thorax orange, meso- 

 and metathorax with black patches, the latter with blue spot ; legs 

 black, the coxae and base of femora orange ; abdomen orange, with 

 dorsal black and blue patch on 1st segment and lateral black and 



