8o Lloyd's natural history. 



Syssfs/^hijix mo/ina, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus., vi., 



p. 1503, no. I (1855); Druce, Biol. Centr. Amer. Lepid. 



Het., i., p. 172 (1886). 

 Psephopaectes simulatilis, Grote and Robinson, Trans. Amer. 



Ent. Soc, i., p. 6, pi. i, fig. i (1867). 

 Adelocephola grandis, Cirote and Robinson, Ann. Lyceum 



Nat. Hist. N. York, viii., p. 8, pi. i, fig. 7 (1867). 



This is one of the smaller moths of the family, averaging 

 only about three inches in expanse. The fore-wings are fawn- 

 coloured, with two oblique brown lines, and the hind-wings 

 are rose-coloured, with a large black spot on the disc. Nearer 

 the hind margin, which is broadly fawn-coloured, is a rusty 

 fascia. 



The larva, which has been described and figured by Stoll, 

 is green, humped before and behind, with several pairs of 

 short yellow tubercles, tipped with red; behind these is a 

 yellow lateral line, edged with white below ; below this, the 

 incisions are striped with red. The spiracles are reddish, but 

 the two last are circled with yellow, and the hinder segments 

 of the body are thickly spotted with red. When full-fed it 

 changes to a violet-brown pupa with a forked tail, in a slight 

 cocoon just beneath the surface of the ground, and the moth 

 appears in eight days. 



The moth is found in I\Iexico and Surinam, and the larva 

 feeds on a kind of banana called "Baccoves" in the latter 

 country. 



GENUS CITHERONIA. 



Cit/iero7u'a, Hiibncr, Verz. bek Schmett, p. 153 (1822?). 

 Ecuies, Hiibner, r^/. a'f., p. 153 (1822?); AValker, List Lepid. 



Ins. Brit. Mus., vi., p. 1370 (1855). 

 Ceratocampa, Harris, Cat. Ins. Mass., p. 591 (1834); id. Rep. 



Ins. Mass., p. 287 (1841). 



