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E. xanthosoma Hmps. is likewise closely allied to the preceding, but it differs by its entirely orange- xanthosoma. 
yellow abdomen, only the last segment being black beneath. Beside the collar and shoulders also the vertex, 
forehips and chest are orange-yellow. Wings as in spegazzinii. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Argentina. 
49. Genus: Djeladia Fldr. 
Half a dozen of small species partly resembling beetles, with the forewings marked yellowish-brown 
and black, or also with small hyaline spots. A characteristic mark is offered by the antennae being strongly 
thickened in the middle. On the forewing the first median vein rises with the two lower radial veins from the 
cell-angle. On the hindwing the lower median vein and the 3rd radial vein rise unpetioled. 
D. lydia Druce. Black, posteriorly with a blue lustre. Collar, abdominal base and a fine lateral line lydia. 
chrome-yellow. The black forewings exhibit a postdiscal, curved, yellow-hyaline band; on the black hindwings 
a narrow hyaline stripe runs from the base to the middle of the distal margin. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. South 
Brazil. 
D. melaena Hmps. (16 d). Body black; tips of antennae white. Hindhead and collar with orange melaena. 
spots. At the sides of the abdomen there are orange-yellow macular stripes. Wings black with hyaline spots 
in, below and behind the cell. Bolivia (Rio Songo). — subsp. brasiliensis nom. nov. (= subsp. 1 . Hmps.) exhibits brasiliensis. 
hyaline spots only behind the cell between the upper median and lowest subcostal veins, whereas they are absent 
in and below the cell. Brazil (Sa. Catharina). 
D. xanthobasis Hmps. The body is blackish-brown, posteriorly with a metallic blue lustre. Base of xanihoba- 
palpi, hinhead and shoulders with orange stripes. At the sides of the abdomen there are stripes of confluent, sls - 
triangular, orange-yellow spots. Forewings blackish-brown, at the base orange. Hyaline spots are in and below 
the cell, as well as an oblique band between the 1st median and lowest subcostal vein, extending as far as the 
margin and defining proximally a round, blackish-brown discal spot. Hindwings hyaline with black veins, 
margins, discoidal and apical spots, and an orange-yellow base. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. British Guiana. 
D. vitrina Rothsch. (16 d). Head and thorax are brownish orange, forehead black, vertex with black vilrina. 
spots, palpal terminal joint black; the thorax shows a black middle stripe; the first abdominal segment is orange 
with a black middle band, the other rings are metallic blue, black curled. The black antennae are white before 
the tips. The wings are yellowish hyaline, at the bases, costal margins and veins orange-brown, a large discoidal 
and apical spot as well as the proximal angle are black. The hyaline hindwings are at the base orange, with 
a blackish-brown margin. Honduras and Ecuador. 
D. Iucetius Cr. (= transiens Wkr.) (16 cl). Similar to correbioides, smaller, the abdomen exhibits as lucetius. 
far as the end broad, orange-brown lateral stripes. In the $ the black is more extensive on the forewings, the 
yellow reduced. Brazil (Para, Sao Paulo), Paraguay. 
D. correbioides Fldr. (16 cl). Forewings orange with a black apical spot and black cellular spot which correbioi- 
extends, greatly broadened, as far as the proximal angle, hindwings orange with a black border. Body black, ^ es • 
with lateral blue spots on the abdomen. Collar and shoulder-covers orange. The black antennae are white 
before the tips. Widely distributed and common in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, 
Colombia. 
50. Genus: Syiitomeida Harr. 
Rather large species reminding us of the Indo-Australian Euchromia, with dark, white-spotted wings. 
The erect palpi are at the base provided with long hair. The antennae are thickened after the middle. On the 
hindwings the lower median and lower radial veins have a short petiole, the upper median vein rises from the 
lower one shortly before the border, the middle radial is absent. 
S. joda Druce (16 cl). Head and thorax bluish-black, the vertex with metallic blue spots; collar and joda. 
shoulder-covers orange-yellow, bordered with black; forehips with orange and white spots, legs with white 
stripes. Abdomen black and metallic blue, with subdorsal orange spots on the 1st, 4th and 5th rings. The 
ventral valve, a spot in the centre of the venter and the anal tuft beneath orange. Wings black, the forewing 
with a yellowish-white spot in and beloAv the middle of the cell and a second one behind the cell. Also the 
hindwing exhibits a spot below the cell and one behind it. Mexico. 
