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Dyar's account (Ent. News, IX, 213), but agrees better with Bailey's 

 somewhat meagre original description. 



C. MAGNiFicA Strecker. (PI. IV, fig. 15.) 



Cymatot'hora iiiagitifica Strecker, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phil. 151 (1876). 



Bombycia magiiifica Smith, List Lep. N. Am. 34 (1891). 



Cossula magnifica Bailey, Pap. II, 94 (1882) ; id. Bull. Dept. .\gri. Ent. Ill, p. 55, 



PI. 2, ff. 1-3 (1883). 

 Cossula basalis Hy. Edwards, (non Walker 1856) Ent. News, II, 71 (1891); 



Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., I, p. 867 (1892) ; Neumoegen & Dyar, Jour. N. Y. 



Ent. Soc, I, 34 (1893) ; id. Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. II, 163 (1894). 

 Cossula magnifica Strecker, (non Bailey) Dyar, Ent. News, IX, 213 (1898); 



Holland, Moth Book, p. 379 (1903). 



"Male. Expands V/i inches. Head and collar chestnut-brown; antennae pec- 

 tinated and brownish ; thora.x ashen-white, with a few scattered brown atoms ; 

 abdomen brown ; legs clothed heavily with whitish-grey hair. 



Upper surface. Primaries lustrous brownish-grey or ashen ; the outer 

 space, forming a large oval spot extending from ape.x to inner angle, is brown- 

 ish-yellow of a somewhat golden tint ; this space, as well as the whole upper 

 wing, reminds one strongly of Phalera Bucephala, Lin. ; on the outer edge of 

 this terminal space, midway between the apex and inner angle, is a parallelo- 

 gramic brown spot ; the inner margin also of this terminal space is edged ir- 

 regularly with brown marks; the part of the wing adjoining this is paler than 

 the rest; at base of wing is also a pale patch same color as thorax; the whole 

 surface of wing, except the yellow terminal space, is more or less reticulated 

 or flecked with dark brown ; none of these reticulations are very conspicuous, 

 except a few which form an abbreviated slight transverse band, which e.xtends 

 neither to costa nor inner margin, and is distant from thorax about one-third of 

 the length of the wing. Secondaries brown, with paler fringes ; they are re- 

 markably produced at the outer angle. 



Under surface brown, with indistinct reticulations ; the square mark on 

 outer margin, midway between apex and inner angle, is repeated. 



Type Loc, Florida, captured by Mr. J. Doll." 



Strecker seems to have measured from apex of one wing to middle 

 of thorax and multiplied by two, instead of merely measuring across 

 wings; the expanse of the type specimen is about 32 mm. Dr. 

 Dyar has placed Arbela norax Druce (Biol. Cent. Amer. Lep. Het., II, 

 450) in the synonomy of this species; neither the description nor 

 figure seem to fit very well, we therefore omit it here. 



Larva in oak and hickory ; short account of early stages given by 

 Bailey in Papilio II, p. 94. 



Hab., Florida. 



In Coll. Barnes, i $ Jacksonville, Fla. 



