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faveria. 
dycladioi- 
dcs. 
humilis. 
cosmoso- 
moides. 
augusta. 
sanguitar- 
sia. 
postica. 
pelopia. 
mellila. 
tetrazona. 
ABROCHIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
81. Genus: Abrochia H.-Schaff. 
A considerable number of small to almost medium-sized, neat species being mostly coloured yellow on 
the body and resembling Sphecosoma or small Cosmosoma- species by their exterior, but being at first sight 
recognizable by the veins of the hindwings. The first palpal joint long-haired; the female antennae rather 
thickened in the middle, serrate-dentate, those of the doubly combed; the second abdominal ring is strangu¬ 
lated. On the forewings, the upper median and the lower radial veins rise separately, the upper radial from 
the upper cell-angle, the 1st subcostal vein from the cell. The cell of the hindwing is long, the lower radial 
being absent; the upper median and middle radial vein rise separately, the subcostal and the uppermost 
radial vein from the upper cell-angle. 
A. faveria Druce (19 h) differs from the following by an orange-yellow discoidal spot and large, 
faded black apical and inner-marginal spots on the forewings. From Panama (Chiriqui). 
A. dycladioides Heyl. (19 h) is a peculiar species from Brazil (Sao Paulo), being very much distinguish¬ 
ed by a remarkably large, round, black discoidal spot of the forewing. The body is orange, the head and 
last abdominal rings black, the anal hair with a leaden lustre. The legs are orange, tarsi and posterior tibiae 
black, posterior tarsi partly yellow. The veins and margins of the basal parts of the wings are yellow, the rest 
black. 
A. humilis H.-Schaff. (19 h). Head and collar black, thorax orange. The 2 first segments and the 
legs of the 3rd abdominal segment are orange, the others black, posteriorly margined by blue. Wings hyaline, 
veins and margins of the proximal halves orange, distally black, as well as a broad apical spot. Hindwings 
with orange veins and margins and a black apical spot. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Brazil. 
A. cosmosomoides Rothsch. Head and thorax black; forehead, palpi, thorax and legs golden yellow; 
antennae black, in the middle brownish orange; the distal half of the collar and the shoulder-covers orange- 
yellow, the latter bordered with black. On the thorax 2 golden yellow middle spots. The 2 first abdominal 
rings are golden-yellow, the others steel-blue, bordered with golden yellow. Forewings yellowish hyaline, the 
distal two thirds of the costa and the median deep orange, the other veins and margins and a broad apical spot 
sooty black; hindwings very small, yellow hyaline with black veins and fringes. Expanse of forewings: 14 mm. 
Venezuela. 
A. augusta Druce (19 h). Plead and thorax black, on the vertex and collar spotted blue; base of shoulder- 
covers yellow. Legs yellow, tarsi and anterior tibiae black. Forewings hyaline, base, costal and proximal 
margin black; veins and margins in the middle area yellow. Discal and apical spots, as well as the veins in 
the marginal area are black. On the hindwings the veins in the basal area are black, distally yellow. Expanse 
of wings: 26 mm. Mexico; Guatemala. 
A. sanguitarsia Bmps. (19 h) is a true copy of Eumenogaster haemacera (19 g) from which it differs 
by the hemochrome tarsi. Body black, at the second abdominal segment laterally and beneath, on the two 
following ones beneath spotted white. Antennae hemochrome. The hairing of the palpi, forehead and thorax 
is sparsely intermixed with orange hairs. The wings are also here reddish-brown in the costal halves; the costal- 
marginal veins of the hindwing are red. Bolivia (Rio Songo). 
A. postica Wkr. (19 h). Head, mesothorax, the first and last abdominal rings are black, the latter 
more or less with a leaden grey lustre; base of palpi, sides of thorax, and shoulder-covers, as well as the middle 
abdominal rings are orange. The wings are narrowly bordered with black. Amazon (Para). 
A. pelopia Druce (19 h) differs from the following by the veins being entirely black, and the collar 
being anteriorly orange-yellow, the metathorax and ends of the shoulder-covers being orange, too, as well as 
the 5 first abdominal rings. Panama; Bolivia. 
A. niellita Schaus (19 i) somewhat resembles pelopia, though it is easily discernible by the veins and 
margins being yellow in the basal halves of the wings. Anterior body black with silvery blue spots of a lilac 
iridescence on the vertex and collar. The 2nd to 5th segments of the abdomen are yellow, the rest being black, 
the last segment with a silvery blue and purple lustre. Underside and legs yellow, tarsi black. Both wings 
exhibit large, black apical spots. Described from Costa Rica (Sixola); the figure according to a specimen 
of the Coll. Fassl from Muzo (Colombia); it, therefore, seems to be widely distributed. 
A. tetrazona Hmps. (19 i). Body black; base of palpi, sides of forehead and vertex spotted orange; 
collar, shoulder-covers and thorax scaled orange; the first abdominal ring is subdorsally spotted orange; the 
second strangulated segment is quite light yellow, the following 4 rings are banded orange. The proximal 
margin of the hindwing orange. The 9 differs by yellowish wings, a large, orange and black discal spot and a 
brown spot below the apex of the wing. Bolivia (Rio Songo); Amazon (Pebas). -— obsoleta subspec. nov. (= subsp. 
$ Hmps.) is a female form from Brazil (Minas Geraes), in which the orange bands on the abdomen have disap¬ 
peared; the discoidal spot of the forewing is absent, too. 
