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margin, inner-marginal vein and a stripe above it orange as well as a broad, postdiscal oblique band extending 
from the subcosta to the lower median vein at the margin. Hindwings black, at the base and proximal margin 
metallic blue. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Rio Grande do Sul. 
C. emarginata Wlcr. (22 f) shows on the black forewings a large, orange transverse spot, the upper, emarcjinata. 
proximal corner of which projects towards the base with a long tooth, the basal lower cell-end, however, remains 
black. Distributed in Brazil. 
C. flammula Hbn.-G. (22 f) is larger than the preceding and differs from it by the much larger orange flammula. 
spot entirely filling up the cell of the forewing and the upper half of the submedian area. Brazil (Rio de Janeiro; 
Espiritu Santo). 
C. similis Heyl. is easily distinguishable from the two preceding by 3 long teeth the orange oblique similis. 
spot sends forth towards the margin below the costa, on the 3rd radial, and below the upper median vein; its 
proximal border is rounded. Forehead and vertex are spotted metallic blue, thorax and abdomen striped blue. 
Fringes of the forewings white at the apex, those of the hindwings in the middle white. On the under surface 
the veins are suffused with blue. Expanse of wings: $ 36, $ 40 mm. Brazil (Sao Paulo). 
125. Genus: Cyaiiopepla Clem. 
This genus, with many widely distributed species in Tropical America, contains the most magnificently 
coloured representatives of the Syntomidae. Beside red and yellow spots, intensely lustrous blue and green 
metal-colours are spread over the wings. The wings are broad, the cell of the hindwing large, the lower median 
vein rises considerably before the lower cell-angle, from which the upper one and 3rd radial vein rise either 
separated or on a short pedicle. The middle radial vein rises above it. On the forewing the 1st subcostal vein 
rises from the cell. 
C. scintillans Btlr. (22 f) has carmine fringes on both wings, the forewing exhibits a carmine transverse sciniiUans. 
band, and the base is covered with metallic blue, as well as the body being otherwise black. Costa Rica and 
Panama. 
C. panamensis Druce (22 e) entirely resembles the preceding, but the spots and fringes are red-yellow panamen- 
instead of carmine. Panama (Chiriqui). SIS " 
C. quadricolor Fldr. (22 f). Head and thorax black, suffused with metallic green. Hips white. Abdomen quadri- 
of a brilliant metallic green with black angular lines and double, black spots on the last rings; the venter exhibits c0,l> '' 
a white median stripe. Forewings blackish-brown, the base spotted green; below the base of the median there 
is a short red stripe, fringes purely white, on the ends of the veins yellowish. Hindwings black, in the disc blue, 
at the margin a carmine, dentate spot. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Colombia. 
C. lystra Druce (22 f) has much broader wings than the following, and no orange-yellow costal margin, lysira. 
The fringes are yellowish white at the apex, and the base of the forewing is spotted metallic blue. Colombia. 
C. cinctipennis Wkr. (= azetas Druce) (22 g) has entirely black forewings except a very fine, red, small cinctipen- 
stripe at the base; the costal margin and fringes are orange-yellow; the hindwings are intensely lustrous blue mSw 
at the base and disc, exhibiting a carmine spot at the margin, and orange-yellow fringes. The abdomen is spotted 
metallic bluish-green. Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador. — The typical form exhibits a large red spot on the 
under surface of the forewing. In obsolescens form. nov. (= subsp. 1. Hmys.) occurring more frequently in obsolescens. 
Ecuador, this spot disappears more or less, all the other red and yellow colours being also greatly reduced. 
C. micans H.-Schdff. (22 g). The forewings are black at the base, at the proximal margin metallic micans. 
bluish-green, with an orange-yellow spot below the base of the cell, and two smaller ones behind the cell. — 
J-f . luxurians form. nov .: occasionally there is a streak-like spot in the lower cell-angle also in the <$, being always luxurians. 
exhibited by the $. The deep blue hindwings, with yellow fringes, have a large, orange spot at the distal margin. 
•— In f. fulgens H.-Schdff. (22 g) the orange-yellow spots are carmine. Both forms are found in Colombia and fulgens. 
Venezuela. 
C. fastuosa Wkr. (= fulgida H.-Schdff.) (22 g). The blackish-brown forewings, being metallic blue fastuosa. 
at the base, exhibit below the base of the cell, and in the cell-end, one red spot each, the hindwings, with a blue 
lustre, show a large red spot at the distal margin. On the under surface of the forewing there is also a small 
red spot behind the lower cell-angle, appearing sometimes also above. From Venezuela to Brazil, occurring 
also in Jamaica. 
C. alonzo Btlr. (= imogena Btlr.) (22 g). Like fastuosa, but besides with a red oblique band behind alonzo. 
the cell. Common in Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru. 
C. arrogans Wkr. (22 a). The black forewings, being metallic bluish-green at the base, exhibit 3 dark arrogans. 
orange-red spots: an oblong one below the cell, a small square one at the cell-end, and a large, oblique subapical 
