SAURITA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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S. rubripuncta Schaus. Body black; forehead, vertex, collar, shoulder-covers, thorax and abdomen rubri- 
laterally with metallic blue spots. At the base of the abdomen above a red transverse streak; beneath with puncta. 
a metallic green lustre, behind it a large white spot, hips white. Wings hyaline, at the base of the fordwing 
a carmine spot; veins, margins and apical spot black, as well as a broad median band terminating into the 
inner angle. Expanse of wings: 29 mm. Costa Rica. 
S. mediorubra Kaye. Head, thorax and abdomen black, base of shoulder-covers and dorsum of the mediorubra. 
1st abdominal ring with large carmine spots. Wings semi-diaphanous blackish, with black veins, margins, 
apical and inner-marginal spots; legs and ventral side black. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. South Brazil ^Santos). 
S. anthracina Klages is one of the largest species with a black body, the forehead, vertex, collar, anthracina. 
shoulders, chest and thorax spotted metallic blue with single white scales between them. Legs blackish-brown. 
Abdomen with dorsal and lateral stripes of metallic green, and with sublateral spots. Wings blackish-brown with 
a blue lustre. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Venezuela. 
S. Cassandra L. (15 f) is very much like nigripalpia, of a more brown ground-colour with darker cassandra. 
veins and a faded discoidal spot, also between the median veins there is darker colouring. The base of the palpi 
and borders of the collar are red. Widely distributed from Venezuela to xArgentina, also in Trinidad. 
S. erythroguia Hmp-s. (15 f) looks like a very large nigripalpia ; the abdomen-exhibits at the bas e erythroguia. 
only one red spot, the forehips are red. Before me only from Brazil (Sao Paulo). 
S. nigripalpia Hmps. (= cassandra Druce) (15 g). Clumsy, unicolorously black species with densely nigripalpia. 
scaled wings. Vertex, shoulders and collar with metallic blue spots. Sides of thorax, middle and posterior 
hips, the first abdominal ring above and at the sides, and the base of the shoulder-covers exhibit scarlet spots. 
The abdomen shows lateral metallic bluish-green spots, and the apex of the abdomen is scarlet. The quite 
black palpi separate the species from the similar, though more brownish cassandra. Common in the whole 
of Mexico (from May to August). In Costa Rica there flies a form more similar to cassandra : — costaricae costaricae. 
Strand (= subsp. 1 Hmps.) in which the wings turn brownish between the veins, the metallic blue spots being 
absent on the head and thorax. 
S. vitristriga Druce (15 g). Black; collar with metallic blue spots; abdomen with metallic green dorsal vitristriga. 
and lateral stripes, with sublateral white spots as well as on the chest and hips. In the <$ the ventral valve 
is blackish-brown with broad white borders, the four last rings on the ventral side ochreous yellow. The black 
wings show hyaline spots of extremely varying extent. Venezuela; British and French Guiana. 
S. sanguisecta Hmps. (15 g) has a black body; the collar, shoulders, mesothorax and forehips with sanguisecta. 
carmine spots; the abdomen shows carmine articular indentations and silvery blue spots between. The hyaline 
forewings, at the base with a carmine spot, exhibit a large discoidal spot, being connected with the costal margin 
and inner angle, as well as a large apical spot; also on the hindwing there is a discoidal spot connected with 
the anal angle, in the shape of a large, blackish-brown, triangular spot. Colombia. 
S. mora Druce (15 g). Black, suffused with blue, with white spots on the forehead, vertex, collar, thorax, mora. 
hips and joints. Chest anteriorly with carmine spots. Abdomen above and laterally with white spots, venter 
white. The black forewings, at the base with a white and blue spot, exhibit hyaline spots below the base of 
the cell in the middle and end of the cell, above the lower median vein, and a dot above the upper median 
vein. Hindwings in the cell with a white stripe. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Panama. 
S. lacteata Btlr. (15 g). Body brown, on the shoulders and shoulder-covers with carmine spots, ladeata. 
The abdomen exhibits on the dorsum and the first rings laterally whitish-yellow colour. The brown forewings 
are yellowish-white below and behind the cell, with brown veins, the hindwings yellow-white with brown veins 
and margins. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Amazon; found also in Trinidad. 
S. nox Druce (15 g) resembles the preceding, but on the abdomen the yellow-white colour is absent nox. 
altogether, instead of which there is a red dorsal spot on the first ring. The red spots of the shoulders are absent, 
the shoulder-covers exhibit red stripes. Forewings thinly covered with brownish-black scales, with darker 
veins, and a postdiscal, faded, whitish spot. Hindwings diaphanous greyish-black. Expanse of wings: 22 mm. 
Honduras; Venezuela. 
S. perspicua Schauss. Body black, with red spots on the shoulders and shoulder-covers. Forehips perspicua. 
grey. Forewings smoky brownish hyaline with black veins and fringes and a more dense black dusting at the 
base and proximal margin. Hindwings more whitish, dusted with black below the cell and at the distal margin. 
Expanse of wings: 27 mm. Trinidad. 
S. phoenicosticta Hmps. (= trigutta Druce ) (15 g). Black with red spots in the neck, at the base phoenico- 
of the shoulder-covers and on the metathorax, Posterior tarsi at the ends white. Wings blackish, diaphanous. 
Prom Guatemala and Costa Rica. 
