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SAURITA. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 
clandestina. 
incerta. 
salta. 
vcnezuelen- 
sis. 
obscura. 
tijuca. 
thoracica. 
■sanguined. 
myrrha. 
vindonissa. 
tenuis. 
astyoche. 
iemenus. 
concisa. 
intricata. 
augusta. 
sericea. 
trianguli- 
jera. 
S. clandestina Zerny (= cryptoleuca Hmps.). Black; vertex and collar with small blue spots; shoulders 
and metathorax with red spots. Abdomen on the first and last segments above, on the two penultimate ones 
laterally with blue spots. Wings black with hyaline stripes in and below the cell and quite small ones behind 
the cell. On the under surface dusted with white. Expanse of wings: 32 mm. Organ Mountains. 
S. incerta Wkr. (= corallonota Fldr., intermedia Druce) (15 h). Dull black; forehead laterally white. 
Vertex and thorax orange-red; forehips white. The black forewings being spotted orange at the base exhibit 
narrow hyaline stripes in and below the cell. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Panama; Colombia. 
S. salta Schaus (15 h) is distinguished from the numerous similar species by an orange-red hindhead, 
white forehead and forehips; from incerta particularly by the absence of the red spot at the base of the forewing. 
Venezuela. 
S. venezuelensis Klages (15 h) is black, the collar, shoulder-covers and thorax above orange, beneath 
black. On the head, the body and base of forewings some silvery blue scales. In the $ only the basal halves 
of the wings are hyaline, the marginal halves black, thinly scaled, whereas the $ has entirely hyaline wings 
with darker veins and margins. The species is smaller than temenus and distinguished by the thorax being only 
above orange, being, however, also above black in f. obscura Klages. The species is not rare in Venezuela and 
French Guiana. 
S. tijuca Schaus. Head black; thorax orange; abdomen above black, beneath whitish. Forewings 
diaphanous blackish. Hindwings hyaline, towards the margin darker. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Brazil. 
S. thoracica Klages is dark blackish-brown; forehead whitish; thorax and chest orange-red. Forehips 
and stripes at the anterior tibiae white in the <$. The blackish-brown wings are orange-red at the base. Expanse 
of wings: $ 20 mm, $ 25 mm. Venezuela. 
S. sanguinea Druce (15 h). Discernible from the following by the 1st abdominal ring being entirely 
orange-red, the forehead being only laterally white striped, and by the absence of the hyaline spots behind 
the cell of the hindwing; in place of it there is usually a small orange spot behind the lower cell-angle. Guatemala. 
S. myrrha Druce (15 h) is recognizable from among the great number of similar species by the sub¬ 
dorsal orange-red spots on the 1st abdominal ring, by the extensively orange-red base of the wings and hyaline 
spots on the hindwings in, below and behind the cell. Forehead white. Guatemala. 
S. vindonissa Druce (15 h). The head, the white-dotted collar, and the shoulder-covers are black; 
the other part of the thorax, the 2 first abdominal rings, and lateral spots on the third ring are orange-red; 
the other segments are black, all the rings subdorsalty, the first dorsally with white spots. The ventral side 
orange-red, legs black. The black forewings exhibit hyaline spots in the basal half; the hindwings are hyaline 
with a black border and discoidal spot. Ecuador. 
S. tenuis Btlr. (15 i) has a brick-red thorax; the other part of the body is black with metallic blue 
spots on the head, collar, base of the abdomen and laterally oh the last abdominal rings. The wings are black, 
in the middle hyaline. Brazil (Espiritu Santo). 
S. astyoche Hbn. (15 h) differs from the preceding by its smaller size, quite black, not blue-spotted 
head and collar, more orange-red thorax, and by the hindwings being without any hyaline spots behind the 
cell. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Surinam; Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul). 
S. temenus Cr. (= afflicta WTcr.) (16 b) differs from the following by distinct hyaline spots in the 
cell-spaces. The upper median vein is present on the hindwings, whilst in the following species it is absent. 
Trinidad; Surinam; Para; Maranhao. 
S. concisa Wkr. (= afflicta Druce) (15 i) has the thorax orange-red above and beneath; the rest of 
the body and the wings are black; the latter between the veins somewhat more thinly scaled. On the hindwings 
2 and 4 are short-petioled, 3 is absent. Panama to the Amazon. 
S. intricata Wkr. (= catastibina Btlr.) (15 i) resembles on the whole tenuis Btlr., though it has a 
quite black thorax. Brazil (Rio cle Janeiro, Espiritu Santo). — ab. augusta Btlr. is a female form resembling 
the in which the hyaline spots are absent behind the cell. 
S. sericea H.-Schdff. (= demoanassa Druce) (15 i) looks entirely like a Macrocneme: black with white 
dots on the forehead and the first abdominal ring; the abdomen shows metallic green longitudinal stripes. 
The black forewings being at the base metallic bluish-green exhibit a small, oblong, hyaline spot at the base of 
the costal margin. Occurring from Panama to Argentina. 
S. triangulifera Druce (15 i) likewise resembles in its colours a Macrocneme: black, suffused with bluish- 
green, tarsi and spots at the base of the abdomen white. The black wings being metallic bluish-green in the 
basal halves exhibit whitish hyaline spots in the basal part of the costal margin, below the base of the cell, 
and quite a narrow one at the cell-end. Brazil (Amazon, Sao Paulo). 
