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of the wings with metallic-blue spots. -—• The extent of the black colour varies, sometimes there are preponderantly 
hyaline spots, so that the black discoidal spot is separated from the inner-margin: f. portoricensis form. nov. portoricen- 
(= ab. 1 Hmps.) from Porto Rico, sometimes the hyaline spots are still more reduced: — f. reducta form. nov. ^ j ( ™ S ' 
(= ab. 2 Hmps.) occurring in St. Cruz. The type of the species flies in Cuba. 
P. thera Druce (12 c) is black, on the forehead, collar, and laterally and dorsally on the abdomen them. 
with blue spots; spots on the shoulder-covers, as well as subdorsal spots on the first abdominal segment are 
orange; forehips and ventral side carmine. The wings are similar to those of the following species. From Mexico 
(Tabasco). 
P. mexicana Wkr. (12 c). Head, thorax and base of the abdomen deep velvety black, abdomen orange- mexicana. 
yellow, analwards warming into scarlet, with black segmental indentations. Wings as in lydia. Legs scarlet 
with black tarsi. Ventral valve in the <$ black. The species is common in Mexico (Orizaba; Jalapa). 
P. teda Wkr. (12c) is one of the smallest species: the body is black-brown with carmine spots teda. 
at the base of the palpi, at the shoulder-covers, as well as lateral spots along the abdomen. The first abdominal 
ring exhibits laterally a white spot, the ventral valve in the and the first abdominal rings on the ventral side 
being white. The wings are hyaline with broad, brown-black margins, the forewings exhibit yet a median 
band and at the base a carmine spot. From Brazil (Sa. Catharina, Sao Paulo). 
21. Genus: Eimomla Hbn. 
Above all distinguished by the antennae being thickened shortly before the tips, whereby they resemble 
certain zygaenidae\ they are besides doubly ctenodont in the The abdomen is rather short and broad and 
the first segment exhibits on both sides a vesicle above which, subdorsally, there are yet tubercles. The wings 
are rather broad without any important particularities of the neuration; on the hindwing the subcostal vein is 
short petioled with the uppermost radial. The species on the whole inhabit certain groups of islands. 
E. colombina F. (= fasciatella Men.) (12 d). Similar as the following, somewhat smaller, with broader colomUna. 
wings; the venter is also beneath black, white-curled with a middle row of red spots; the abdomen shows on 
the first ring dorsal and lateral red spots, the 3rd segment a red ring; ventral valve red. Hayti; Honduras; 
Brazil. 
E. rubripunctata Btlr. (12 d) resembles the preceding species, but it is larger, with more stretched rubripunc- 
wings, and differing by the entirely red underside of the abdomen . Head and thorax are black, the first palpal tata - 
joint, vertex and anterior half of the collar carmine; collar and shoulder-covers with fine white margins. The' 
carmine abdomen is only on the dorsum black with numerous fine white transverse lines. Forewings hyaline 
with a red, discoidal spot being bordered by black. The margins and a large apical spot are black, the veins 
in them finely marked in white. The distal margin expands somewhat also below the lower median vein, in 
which there is some carmine scaling. The species flies in Jamaica. 
E. latenigra Btlr. (12 d) has a black body; the first joint of the palpus, as well as a stripe at the second latenigra. 
joint, a line on the forehead, the anterior half of the collar, as well as the underside of the thorax are carmine; 
the shoulder-covers are bordered by white. The abdomen, except the last segments, is beneath and on the 
sides carmine; on the last segments short white dorsal streaks. The hyaline wings exhibit broad black margins, 
being expanded to large spots in the apical halves. From the Bahama-Islands, occurring also in Honduras. 
E. nitidula H.-Schdff. is the smallest species, with 3 pair of red spots on the thoracic sides; the first nilidula. 
abdominal ring is carmine, the others black with 2 fine white rings each. Venter carmine. Expanse of wings: 
26 mm. Cuba. 
E. caymanensis Hmps. Body black, white-striped, collar and shoulder-covers bordered with white, caymanen- 
Thorax, sides of the forehips and the femora above carmine except the ends, for the rest the legs are white- sis - 
striped, the anterior side of the hips white. The black abdomen shows series of subdorsal white and carmine 
streaks, on the posterior segments above white articular lines, the last segment being white-spotted, with lateral 
red stripes, the venter at the base carmine, for the rest red-banded. Wings as in the other species, the black 
marginal colour dusted with white. Expanse of wings: 32 mm. Grand-Cayman near Cuba. 
E. insularis Grote (= elegantula H.-Schdff.) differs from the preceding by its much smaller size, entirely insularis. 
white forehips, whereas the thorax, middle and hind-hips and the distal part of the hind legs are carmine. The 
abdomen is black with white segmental lines which are broader on the 2nd and 4th rings; the 1st ring shows 
a white median spot, all the other rings red dorsal and lateral spots. Venter at the base carmine, in the <§ 
with white stripes. Cuba. 
22. Genus: Plieia Wkr. 
Mostly small butterflies the exterior of which resembles that of the Cosmo-soma-species, with hyaline 
wings. Antennae with comb-like or saw-like teeth, the palpi extending beyond the vertex are erect. Distinguished 
by the discocellular of the hindwing running so oblicpiely that the cell is not visible at all in the butterfly being 
