COSMOSOMA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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the $ there is in the angle between the lower median vein and the lower radial a triangular, orange-yellow spot 
bordered with black. Colombia (Micay; Rio Aguaca). 
C. thoracicum Schaus. The neck and thorax are ochreous orange, the other part of the body is black, thoracicum. 
on the forehead, the first abdominal ring and at the sides of the other rings blue-spotted. The forewings are 
orange at the base; the margins and apical spots are broadly black, as well as the space between the lower 
median veins and near the cell also between the upper median vein and the lower radial. Expanse of wings: 
24 mm. French Guiana. 
C. sicula Dyar approximates centralis (14 a). The body is quite black, blue-spotted, on the collar sicula. 
and shoulder-covers single orange-red scales. The hyaline, black-veined wings are at the costal and inner margin 
striped in an orange-red, the distal margin is black, at the apex very broad; the discal spot very narrow; 
the space between the median veins is in the <$ black with orange-red scales, as well as the extreme base between 
the upper median and lower radial vein. Expanse of wings: 27 mm. Described according to 1 from Venezuela. 
C. teuthras Wkr. is one of the most common species being distributed almost through the whole teuthras. 
of Tropical America from Mexico toArgentina, immediately recognizable by the red, black-margined discoidal 
spot. The black, blue-spotted abdomen exhibits at the base lateral red spots. According to the extent of the 
red costal- and inner-marginal streaks different forms are denominated. In the name-type the inner-marginal 
red only extends somewhat beyond the middle. — cingulatum Btlr. (14 b) is the name of the form flying the cingulatum. 
most frequently in Mexico, Yucatan, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama, in which the very bright scarlet 
at the inner margin extends as far as the inner angle. — The Brazilian form erubescens Btlr. (14 b as teuthras ) erubescens. 
is somewhat smaller and the red discoidal spot much smaller, the red more intense, extending at the inner 
margin as far as the inner angle. -— In lignicolor Rothsch. (14 b) from Ecuador all the red parts are yellow, the lignicolor. 
black ones being of a wooclen-brown colour, the latter parts being at the same time much more extensive than 
in the name-type; the wings are also a little shorter and broader. — nigrescens Rothsch. (14 b) is a rare form nigrescens. 
from Colombia, in which the costal margin and middle spot are entirely black, without any trace of red. — 
restrictlim Btlr. (14 b) may be considered as the transition to it; here the red of the costa is already greatly restrictum. 
reduced; the red inner-marginal streak does not reach the middle of the inner margin. Described from Brazil 
(Santarem). 
C. cruenta Perty. Body black, tips of antennae white; vertex and collar with white dots, shoulder- cruenta. 
covers with carmine stripes; the abdomen exhibits on the 3 first rings subdorsal, broad, carmine bands; the 
other rings dorsal, lateral and sublateral white dots. The hyaline wings are greatly distinguished by not only 
the costal- and inner-marginal stripes being suffused by red, but also the distal margin and apical spot, also 
on the hindwings. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. Amazon. 
C. caecum Hmps. (= impar Bruce pr. p.) (14 c). Exactly like the teuthras cingulatum Btlr., only caecum. 
the discoidal spot is entirely black, rarely with a reddish brightening in the middle. The red colour is generally 
duller, more brownish. Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama. 
C. parambae Rothsch. (14 c) greatly approximates the preceding and differs by its brown, not orange- parambae. 
red costal and inner margin, by orange-yellow, not red colour at the base of the hindwing and abdomen, by 
the more brown thorax, by the black distal margin of the forewing being very narrow between the upper median 
and lowest radial vein but growing very broad between the upper median vein and the inner angle. Besides 
the species is much smaller. Ecuador. 
C. telephus Wkr. (= coccineum Btlr., pyrrhostethus Btlr.) (14 c) differs from the very similar caecum telephus. 
by its entirely red collar and shoulder-covers, as well as the entire absence of the discoidal spot. Widely distri¬ 
buted from Colombia to Argentina. 
C. achemon F. (= tyrrhene Hhn., voltumna Druce) (14 c). Head black, on the forehead and vertex achemon. 
metallic blue, antennae white at the tips; thorax orange-red, beneath black; abdomen black with an orange-red 
dorsal stripe being in the £ narrow, in the $ much broader, and subdorsal metallic blue spots. Base of forewing 
orange-red, which colour extends at the costal and inner margin almost to the apex; in the $ between the lower 
median and lower radial vein a red spot bordered with black, being absent in the $. — In f. bolivarensis Klages bolivarensis. 
all the red colour of the body is removed by black; the black colour and thorax are covered with metallic blue 
spots; only the shoulder-covers occasionally show red stripes; the black abdomen, beside the subclorsal spots, 
exhibits very large metallic blue sublateral spots which are only very little developed in the name-type. Also 
the inner-angular spot in the <$ is quite black. — The nomenclatural form flies in Jamaica and Hayti, Venezuela 
and Brazil; the black form to which perhaps also remotum is allied has hitherto only been found in Venezuela 
(Bolivar and Suapure). 
C. achemonides Dogn. Very near to the preceding, but larger. Antennae quite black. The abdomen achemoni- 
is more uniformly suffused by blue; the red middle stripe is somewhat expanded on the middle rings; marginal des - 
band and apical spot of the wings are more orange-yellow, and brownish only close before the apex. Expanse 
of the wings: 29 to 31 mm. Peru. 
