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CERAMIDIA. By Dr. M. Djraudt. 
ca wens is. 
cyanopasta. 
pa i nei. 
caca. 
ornata. 
scintillo- 
collaris. 
phaiodes. 
cuprea. 
bricenoi. 
cataleuca. 
■pliemonoi- 
des 
fumipennis. 
C, caisrensis Kluges (20 g) greatly approximates the preceding, and the 3 first ventral segments are 
likewise white. The red spots in the neck are indistinct, the green metallic colour of the body is much darker 
and more subdued, the basal part of the forewing is hardly noticeably greener than the other part of the wing. 
On the hinclwings, beside the white costal area also the median vein is of a white colour. The antennae are 
metallic dark blue. Forehead and palpi are all black. Venezuela, French Guiana. 
C. cyanopasta Dogn. is black on the body and wings, with a metallic bluish-green lustre; in the neck 
2 red spots. Hips and anterior ventral half in the $ spotted white, in the A all white. In the A there are 
besides white dots on the forehead, shoulders, and subdorsally on the 1st abdominal ring. Expanse of wings; 
37-—39 mm. Venezuela. 
C. painei Rothsch. Head black, collar snow-white; the thorax and abdomen coppery green; legs and 
antennae brown; shoulder-covers black. The abdomen exhibits on the 2nd and 3rd rings lateral white spots. 
The forewing is in the larger proximal half golden green, in the marginal area blackish-green. Hindwings black 
with a dark grey costal area. Length of forewings: 24 mm. Caijca Valley. 
C. caca Hbn. (20 h) is distinguished by sublateral white spots only on the first abdominal segment 
in the A, on the 3 first segments in the §; it differs from the following by the wings being metallic green, not 
blue, the palpi and forehips exhibiting small white spots; the second abdominal segment is also laterally spotted 
white. South Brazil and Argentina. 
C. ornata Druce (20 h) is one of the largest species distinguished from the preceding by the peacock- 
blue forewings, as well as by the entirely black palpi and hips, though it is otherwise very much allied to it. 
The golden green abdomen exhibits white spots subdorsally on the second segment and also sublaterally from 
the second to fourth segments. Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia. 
C. scintillocolSaris Rothsch. Vertex and collar are lustrous steel-green, forehead white, antennae 
steel-blue, thorax coppery, on the shoulders white spots, shoulder-covers bordered with black. The first abdo¬ 
minal ring is coppery, laterally white; the rest of the abdomen is brown with a coppery lustre. Forewings dark 
olive-green, hindwings black with a grey costal area. Length of forewings: 21 mm. Nicaragua. 
C. phaiodes Dogn. $. Black; middle of forehead white, collar with two white dots, at the base of 
the forewing a white spot, thorax with 3 white dots; the first abdominal segment with three white spots, 
abdomen above yellowish-green metallic with some black dots, each segment bordered with black, the second 
segment with a pair of sublateral white spots, venter blackish-green, metallic, with a series of white spots; 
hips white. Forewings black with a green tint and some metallic green atoms and two oval hyaline spots, one 
of which is behind the median near the base of vein 2, the other opposite in the cell. Hindwings above blackish- 
green with a large, hyaline submedian spot, the anterior half of the abdominal margin being white. Fringes 
of the same colour. 44 mm. Colombia, Canon del Tolima, 2000 m, in October. 
C« cuprea Schaus (20 h). Forewings black, in the apical part somewhat lighter, at the base a metallic 
green spot. Hindwings likewise black, costal margin broad, light brownish-grey, at the proximal margin two 
transparent, oblong spots. Forehead, antennae, collar, and a spot on the shoulder are metallic green. Meso- 
thorax brass-coloured, like the abdomen which exhibits an intense coppery lustre particularly towards the 
apex. On each side of the first segment a spot being white, like the ventral valve in the <$. Mexico 
(Mi santla), taken in March. 
C. bricenoi Rothsch. Head black, spotted steel-blue; antennae and legs steel-blue. Thorax black with 
coppery spots. Abdomen coppery with black subdorsal spots, a green dorsal spot and white lateral spots on 
the 1st segment. Forewing in the basal half golden green, distally deep oil-green. Hindwing brownish-black, 
in the costal half dark grey. Length of forewings: 25 mm. Venezuela. 
C„ cataleuca Btlr. (20 h) is recognizable by the hindwings being white beneath, only one spot at the 
base of the costal margin being green and one spot at the margin being brown. The green abdomen with a 
coppery lustre shows broad, white sublateral stripes. In the neck and at the prothorax carmine spots. Ecuador, 
Surinam, Amazon. 
C. phemonoides Moschl. (= fusiformis Btlr.) (20 i) is easily distinguished by the broad and long 
white discal stripe on the hindwing beneath; above the wings are dark brown with a coppery lustre. Palpal base 
and forehead are white, neck and shoulders spotted reel. The coppery green abdomen exhibits broad, sublateral, 
white stripes except the last segment. The legs are striped white. Venezuela, Guiana, Amazon. 
C. fumipennis Wkr. (20 h) is a smaller, dull coppery brown species; forehead and first palpal joint 
spotted white, neck laterally spotted red; legs striped white. The coppery green abdomen shows white sublateral 
stripes except the last segment. The under surface of the hindwings differs from the similar species by a slight, 
white brightening in the cell-end. Amazon. 
