M-VCROCNEMG. 



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metallic green to end of cell. Hind wing with dark green patch 

 in, below, and beyond lower end of cell. 



2 . l^ase of palpi, coxae, and base of femora with white points ; 

 abdomen with white ventral band at base, the other segments with 

 ventral series of points, and the 2nd and 3rd segments with lateral 

 points. 



Hab. Bolivia, Chaco, 1^1$, type. Ea^p. 52 millim. 



704. Macrocneme thyra. 



Macrocneme thi/ra, Moschl. Verb. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, xxxii. p. 334, 

 pi. 18. f. 24 (1883) ; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 129. 



J . Black ; antennae white at tips ; palpi white in front and at 

 base ; frons with two white spots ; tegulae with white lateral and 

 dorsal points ; vertex of head, tegulae, and patagia suffused with 

 golden green, the vertex of thorax and abdomen with cupreous 

 green ; abdomen with paired dorsal and lateral white spots on Isfc 

 segment ; underside of thorax and abdomen white ; legs black, 

 femora streaked with white, extremity of hind tarsi white. Fore 

 wing with two white points at base, the basal half suffused with 

 metallic blue-green interrupted by an obli(|ue patch of the black 

 ground-colour below base of cell. Underside with white on inner 

 area of fore wing and at base of hind wing. 



Hah. Surinam, typef 6 in Coll. Staudinger; Amazons, Para 

 {Austen)., 1 S \ Peru, Ohanchamayo. Exp. 38 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Fore wing with the blue-green at base entire, and very 

 little white on inner area of fore wing below, and on base of hind 

 wing. — Trinidad (Caracciolo)., 1 cf ; Colombia, R. San Juan. 



Subsp. 2. Fore wing with the blue-green entire and extending 

 nearly to terraen. — Bolivia, Rio Songo, 1 cS . 



705. Macrocneme thyridia, n. sp. (Plate XI. fig. 9.) 



J . Head black, with white points on base of palpi, frons, and 

 vertex ; tegulae and patagia black, with golden-green patches, 

 tegulae with lateral and dorsal white points ; patagia fringed with 

 white ; thorax golden green ; white points on front and back of 

 pectus and on coxae ; hind tibiae fringed with white at extremity ; 

 abdomen cupreous green, the basal segment black with subdorsal 

 . and lateral white points, the 2nd segment with lateral and sub- 

 lateral points, the others with ventral points ; wings black. Fore 

 wing with two white points at base ; an oblique golden-green fascia 

 on basal area ; some medial streaks on costa and in cell, and a 

 streak on medial part of inner margin. Underside with some white 

 at base of each wing ; golden-green suffusion on costa and in cell, 

 and on fore wing below the cell. 



2 . Vertex of head without white ; patagia not fringed with 

 white. 



Hab, Surinam, 1 $ type, 6 in Coll. Staudinger. Ex^p, 34 

 millim. 



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