PLATYSAMIA GLOYERI. NOT. SP. 



Mai,k. Expands 4i inches. 



Antennsc pectinated. Head and thorax dark l)rownish red ; collar white; ahdomeii 

 alternately banded with ilark brown and white. 



Upper surface, primaries, inner half dark reddish l,rown, with a dirty white ban.l 

 near the base, and a small white oval discal spot bordered on the outer and inner sides 

 with black ; the dark red eolored space is bounded outwardly by a white transverse l)and 

 extending from the costa to the interior margin, widening at the latter termination ; the 

 space immcdiatelv beyond the white band, occupying fully two-thirds of the exterior half ot 

 the surface, is dark grev, composed of black and white scales, the exterior portion being 

 the darkest ; the remaining space between this' and the exterior margin is dirty grey, 

 traversed by a serpentine black line ; a short space in from the apex on the costa is a 

 small black spot, from which a zigzag white line extends a short distance to another larger 

 black spot of an oval shape, which has within it a pale blue crescent ; the space from this 

 latter black spot to the costa, and from tlie zigzag line almost to the white transverse band 



is violet. . . 



Secondaries have a white basal patch, also a white transverse band, as in Cecropia, tlie 

 color between this band and the base is dark brosvnish red ; in the centre is a moderately 

 large lunate disc.al spot, white edged with black ; of the remaining space, between the trans- 

 verse band and the exterior margin, the inner two-thirds is composed of black and white 

 scales, as in the primaries, and the outer third is light, dirty grey, wliich latter is divided by 

 a black line, on the inside of which line, running parallel with it, is a row of irregularly 



shaped black spots. 



Under suriace same as above, with the exception of the ground color ot the secondaries 

 between the transverse bands and base, which is composed of black and white scales instead 

 of being dark red as on the upper surtace. 



Fkmai.e. Expands 5| inches. 



Antennas not as broadly pectinated as in the male. Ilea<l an<l thorax brownish or brick 

 red, much the same as in ordinary forms of Cecropia ; abdomen alternately bande<l with the 



same color and white.* 



On the primaries the transverse white ban.l is somewhat irregular, and rounded out- 

 wardly ; the basal band also rounded ; the diseal spot larger than in male, and slightly 

 lunate ; the ground color between the transverse band and base is brownish red, ol a slightly 

 different tint than the thorax ; the portion beyond the transverse band, light dirty grey as 

 far as the serpentine line, the inner third of it powdered with a band of reddish scales 

 broader near the exterior margin, and narrowing towards the costa ; margin outside of 

 serpentine line dirty white, shaded slightly exteriorly ; the black apical spots and violet patch 

 same as in male. 



* As the bodies of n.y exaiup'e.s were mucl. nibbed ^Yhe^ I received them, some allowance must be made for 

 this portion of my description. 



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