122 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



ment. Legs black, white beneath. Wings black, bright blue 

 at the base ; cilia white at the tips of the fore-wings and on 

 part of the exterior border of the hind-wings ; fore-wings with 

 an oblique pale red semi-hyaline band ; hind-wings with a 

 discal spot of the same hue." ( JValker.) 



GENUS COMPOSIA. 



Co?nJ>osia, Hiibner, Verz. bc-k. Schmett. p. 179 (1822?) ; 

 Walker, List Lepid. Lis. Brit. Miis. ii. p. 360 (1874). 



This is a small genus including only a few West Indian 

 and other Tropical American species. The wings are some- 

 what narrow, and much rjunded, the hinder-angle of the 

 fore-wings being completely rounded off. The wings are black, 

 covered with pearly white spots, and are generally more or 

 less marked with red likewise. 



COMPOSIA CREDULA. 



[Plate LX XX III. Fig. I.) 



Bomhyx credula, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 584, no. 94 (1775). 

 Nodua sybaris^ Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 71, fig. E (1775). 

 Phal(^iia sybaris, Beauvois, Lis. Afr. Amer. p. 266, pi. 24, fig. 



7 (1821?). 

 CoDiposia credula, Hiibner, Samml. Ex. Schmett. ii. taf. 150 



(1824); Walker, List Lepid. Lis. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 361, no. 



1(1854). 

 Hyperconipa (?) sybaris, Duncan, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. 



Moths, p. 186, pi. 23, fig. I (1841). 



This fine Jamaican Moth expands 2^ inches. It is black 

 with twenty white spots on each of the fore-wings and eighteen 

 on each of the hind-wings; the latter being placed in three 

 irregular rows. The sides of the head are white ; there are four 

 minute white dots on the collar, succeeded by a row of eight 



