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C. pseudothia Zerny (= thia Schaus). Head, thorax and legs dark brown; on the forehead and collar pseudolhia. 
some metallic blue scales; hips bluish-black. Abdomen of a bright yellow, the 2 last rings black. Wings hyaline 
with black veins, margins, apical and inner-angular spots as well as an angled discal spot. Expanse of wings: 
29 mm. Costa Rica. 
C. angustimargo Schaus. Different from stibosticta (14 g) by the forehead being only laterally white; angusii- 
on the abdomen only the 2 last segments are black; the white spots on the thorax are absent. Legs dark brown, 
forehips white-striped. Forewing with a narrow black distal margin. Expanse of wings: $ 29, $ 37 mm. 
Costa Rica. 
C. flavothorax Rothsch. (14 g). Head metallic blue; collar and shoulder-covers sooty brown, the flavothorax. 
latter at the base with metallic blue spots; thorax and abdomen golden yellow, the 4 last abdominal rings black 
with dorsal and lateral metallic blue spots. Legs brown. Margins of the wings brown. — Patria unknown. 
C. flavothoracides Zerny (= intensa Rothsch.) (14 h), according to Rothschild’s opinion, is probably flavothora- 
to be considered as a subspecies of the preceding from which it differs by its orange colouring of the body 
and a deeper, sooty black of the margins of the wings. Colombia and Ecuador. 
C. flavita Schaus. Head black, collar and thorax yellow, the latter anteriorly black-spotted; shoulder- flavita. 
covers distally bordered with a brownish black. Legs black, forehips yellow; abdomen yellow, the 2 last rings 
black. Wings hyaline with black bases, veins, margins and apical spots; costa of the forewing towards the 
base hyaline. Expanse of wings: 38 mm. Colombia. 
C. ockendeni Rothsch. (14 h). Head, thorax and abdomen, except the three first orange segments, octcendeni. 
black. The orange segments exhibit black lateral stripes. Breast yellow, legs and antennae black. Subcostal 
space like the wings hyaline. A small black apical spot. Described from Peru. 
C. plagiata Rothsch. (14 h). Head and thorax black; abdomen yellow, the last segment and a large plagiata. 
dorsal spot on the rings 3 to 5 black; breast yellow, legs and antennae black. Subcostal space of the forewings 
hyaline; discoidal and apical spots black. Peru. 
C. pytna Druce. Head and thorax black, the former with lateral blue spots; neck and collar yellow, ■pytna. 
bordered with black; abdomen yellow, 2nd and 3rd rings black, with lateral spots of a brilliant metallic blue; 
the last rings black, with blue spots. Wings hyaline with yellow bases; veins, margins and apical spot broadly 
black; inner margin of the forewing orange. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Trinidad. 
C. xanthomelan Zerny (= rosenbergi Rothsch. pr. p., pulchrum Rothsch.) (14 h). Head and thorax xanthome- 
black, with metallic blue spots; immediately distinguishable from the similar species by the orange-yellow lan - 
metathorax with a blue middle spot. The abdomen is orange, the two last rings black with metallic blue spots. 
Legs orange with blackish-brown tarsi. The basal costal-marginal half and the proximal margin of both wings 
orange. Ecuador. 
C. buchwaldi Rothsch. (14 h). Body sooty blackish-brown, vertex white; the sides of the first 3 abdo- buchwaldi. 
minal rings are orange-yellow. Antennae and legs blackish-brown, forehips and tibiae yellow. The margins 
of the wings, a discoidal and a large apical spot black, at the base of the proximal margin on each side of vein 
1 an orange-yellow stripe. Ecuador. 
C. harpalyce Schaus. Blackish-brown; neck with white dots; spots on the shoulder-covers and lateral harpalyce. 
stripes on the 3 first abdominal rings orange, as well as lateral hair-tufts at the base of the abdomen. The middle 
rings are beneath orange. Wings hyaline with brown veins and margins; at the base of the forewing there are 
2 white dots. Inner-marginal angle of the forewing brown. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. Brazil (Rio de Janeiro). 
C. regia Schaus (= nicippe Druce) (14 h) is well recognizable by the broad black base of the forewing regia. 
with 2 large hyaline spots in it; the discoidal spot is connected with the inner angle by black embedment between 
the median veins. The first abdominal rings are above and laterally carmine-pink, the rest of the abdomen 
black with white spots which are of a magnificent sky-blue opalescence on the first segments. Colombia, Vene¬ 
zuela, Peru. 
C. bogotense Fldr. (14 h) resembles the preceding, though it is smaller and easily discernible by a bogotcn.sc. 
great reduction of the hyaline spots; the dorsal and subdorsal abdominal spots are of a bright metallic blue. 
Described from Colombia (Bogota), in the Coll. Seitz also from San Carlos (Costa Rica), thus apparently wide¬ 
spread. 
C. intensum Wkr. (14 m) is smaller than regia, all the spots being white there are here brilliantly intension. 
metallic blue, only the forehips and the under surface of the 4 last rings are white. On the first abdominal 
ring paired carmine spots; the 3 last rings exhibit lateral orange spots. The wings are yellowish hyaline with black 
veins, margins, apical spots and base. Hind wing at the inner margin whitish. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. 
Honduras. 
