192 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Habitat: — Brazil, Sete Lagoas in Minas Geraes, May 4, 1908, by 

 J. D. Haseman, 1 d\ Chapada, by H. H. Smith, 1 cJ* numbered 

 144. Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



A male from Sao Paulo, Brazil, by A. Hempel (Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia), taken September 14, 1900, has the occipital 

 stripe, the prothorax and the dark metallic-green mesepisternal stripes 

 as in T. corallina, the labrum yellow, the superior appendages as in 

 T. carmesina, 10 postnodals on the front wing, 8 on the hind, ab- 

 domen 22.5 mm., hind wing 16 mm. 



97. Telebasis sanguinalis sp. nov. 

 (Plate V, fjg. 101. ) 



d\ Transverse reddish occipital stripe enlarged, or not enlarged, 

 on each side into a reddish spot. Labrum bluish-green. 



Prothorax with a metallic-green spot on the middle of the front 

 lobe, middle lobe with a mesially convex metallic-green stripe on each 

 side of its dorsum, or the dorsum dark metallic-green with a reddish 

 spot on each side ; hind lobe dark metallic-green with yellow margins. 

 Mid-dorsal thoracic carina reddish, the dark metallic-green stripe 

 on each side of the carina one-third to two-fifths as wide as the 

 mesepisternum on which it lies ; remainder of mesepisterna and mese- 

 pimera reddish ; metapleura pale bluish or yellowish. 



Superior appendages, in profile view, with the upper margin 

 moderately convex, its proximal half almost straight, its distal half 

 not descending abruptly, no constriction or teeth on the almost straight 

 lower margin visible in the ordinary resting position, but on raising 

 the superiors the extreme base of the lower margin is seen to be 

 abruptly constricted, an acute infero-internal forwardly-directed tooth 

 marking the beginning of the enlargement, apex rounded. 



9 . Transverse reddish occipital stripe enlarged on each side into a 

 spot which is quite large in some. Labrum yellowish. 



Prothorax pale reddish-brown or reddish-yellow, hind lobe with 

 two slender thin processes directed forward and applied for their whole 

 length against the dorsal surface of the middle lobe reaching to one- 

 half of its length. 



Thoracic dorsum and abdomen less red, more yellow ; a mid-dorsal 

 blackish spot on abdominal segment 1 ; a fine blackish or brown mid- 

 dorsal line on 2 connecting a mid-basal spot with a transverse brown- 

 ish streak at three-fourths' length. Hind margin of 10 cleft mid- 



