CYANOPEPLA. 441 



with broad metallic blue bands on each segment, narrow below. 

 Fore wing with metallic blue spot at base of costa, and short streaks 

 above vein 1 and on inner margin ; a bright crimson obli(|ue wedge- 

 shaped band from middle of costa to above tornus ; cilia crimson. 

 Hind wing suifused with brilliant blue, the termen and cilia crimson. 

 Underside of fore wing with diffused metallic blue on basal area, 

 and patches beyond cell ; hind wing metallic blue except terminal 

 area. 



2 with blue patches on fore legs. 



An aberrant specimen has vein 5 of hind wing from lower angle 

 of cell. 



Ilab. Costa Hica {Van Fatten) type, {Rogers) \ Panama {Cham- 

 pion, Trotsch), Godman-Salvin Coll. E.vp. 44-46 millim. 



968. Cyanopepla panamensis. (Plate XV. fig. 4.) 



Charideapanamensis, Druce, Biol. Ceiitr.-Am., Het. i. p. 71 (1884) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 162. 



Black ; head, thorax, and legs with patches of brilliant blue ; 

 abdomen banded with blue. Fore wing with blue spot at base of 

 costa, and streak on vein 1 not quite reaching middle ; an oblique 

 orange wedge-shaped band from just below middle of costa to above 

 vein 1 near termen ; cilia orange. Hind wing slightly shot with 

 purple ; an orange terminal band expanding at vein 3 and not 

 quite reaching tornus. 



Hah. Panama, Chiriqui {Trotsch), 1 J 1 $ • E.rp. 44 millim. 

 Type in Coll. Staudinger, co-type f in Coll. Druce. 



*969. Cyanopepla quadricolor. 



Cyanopepla quadricolor, Fekl. Reis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 15 (1S74) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 162. 



S . Head and thorax black, almost entirely suffused with brilliant 

 metallic green ; coxae white ; abdomen brilliant metallic green, with 

 black segmental lines and paired dorsal patches on terminal segments ; 

 a ventral white fascia. Fore wing black-browi^, with some metallic 

 green at base ; a short crimson streak below base of median nervure ; 

 the termen and cilia pure wbite, the extremities of the veins 

 yellowish towards apex. Hind wing black, the discal area shot 

 with brilliant blue : a crimson patch on termen with its inner edge 

 dentate and narrowing to apex and vein 2. Underside with the 

 basal area brilliant blue-green except costa of fore wing and inner 

 area of hind wing. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogota. Exp. 42 millim. Type t in Coll. 

 Eothschild. 



*970. Cyanopepla lystra. (Plate XY. fig. 23.) 



Charidea lystra, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 35 (1896). 

 S . Head and thorax black, with patches of brilliant metallic 



