PLATYSAMIA GLOYEHI. NOV. SP. 



Mam;. Expands 4i inches:. 



Antennse pectinatcil. Head and thorax dark bniwnisli red ; collar white ; ulMliimtii 

 alternately banded with dark brown and white. 



Upper surtiice, primaries, inner half dark reddish l)r(»wn, wiiii a dirty white band 

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

 with black; the dark red colored space is bounded outwardly by a white transverse band 

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

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

 the surface, is dark grey, 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 lino extends a sliort 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 the zigzag line almost to tlie white transverse band 

 is violet. 



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

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

 large lunate discal 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, which latter is divided by 

 a black line, on the inside of which line, running parallel with it, is a row of irr»i;ulai'ly 

 shaped black sj)ots. 



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

 between the transvei'se bands and base, which is composed of blai-k and white scales instead 

 of being dark red as on the upper surface. 



FinrAi.E. Expands 5| inches. 



Antenujc not as broadly pectinated as in the male. IJead and thorax brownish or brick 

 red, much the same as in ordinary forms of Cecro])ia ; abdomen alternately banded with the 

 same color and white.* 



On the primaries the transverse white band is somewhat irregular, and rounded out- 

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

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

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

 far as tlx' 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 s]iots and violet patch 

 same as in male. 



* As the bodies of my exanipk-ji were nuieli rubbeil wlicii I reeeived ihem, »oine allowance must be made for 

 this portion of my description. 



