228 SYN'IOMICE. 



Journ. Sci. xxxvi. p. 317 ; Clem. Proc. Acad. Sci. Pbilad, 1860, p. 544 j 

 Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 153, pi. 7. f. 5 ; Smith, Ent. Am. i. p. 181. 

 Cosmosoma mclitta, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 635, 

 pi. 8. f. 3 (1877) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 142. 



Head black, with metallic blue ou frons and vertex ; antennae 

 white at tips ; tegulie black, with metallic blue spots, sometimes 

 partly crimson ; thorax and sides of first four segments of abdomen 

 crimson, varying to orange ; patagia fringed with black ; legs 

 crimson, slightly marked with black ; abdomen black, with dorsal 

 series of blue spots and lateral spots on terminal segments ; the 

 ventral valve of male with white lateral patches ; the black of 

 abdomen sometimes extending on dorsum to base and to vertex of 

 thorax, sometimes not; wings hyaline, the veins and margins 

 black. Fore wing usually with more or less developed discoidal 

 patch ; the terminal band expanding on apical area and at tornus, 

 very widely on apical area of fore Aving. 



Hah. Florida, Grote and Zell. Colls. ; Mexico (Godman, H. U. 

 Smith, Trujillo) ; Costa Eica {Rogers, Underwood) ; Panama, 

 Ghxviciui {CI tampion), Godman-Salvin Coll.; St. Thomas; Jamaica 

 {Gosse): Surinam, type t melitta in Coll, Staudinger; Brazil, Sao 

 Paulo {Jones) ; Uruguay. Exy. 38—1:4 millim. 



Larva : Dyar, Psyche, 1896, p. 414. 



Eggs smooth, conoidal, with flat base ; shining white tinged 

 with yellow. 



Larva mature : head yellow, ocelli black, mouth brown ; body 

 yellowish on somites 3, 4, 12, 13 ; warts and spiracles black, the 

 1st, 2nd, and 3rd series of warts normal, 4th behind spiracles, the 5th 

 and 6th series normal ; hair dense, fine, of even length, black and 

 white ; somites 5 and 1 1 with dense lateral tufts from warts of 3rd 

 and 4th series, the black hairs plumed ; on thoracic somites there is 

 a larger wart above the stigmatic wart, with a few long hairs from 

 it overhanging the head ; on 2nd somite the cervical shield has 

 two minute warts on each side, a wart at edge, and stigmatic and 

 subventral warts. Food-plant, Mil-ania scnndens. 



Cocoon large, elliptical, of silk and hair, light yellowish mixed 

 with the plumed black hairs. 



Pupa rounded, the somites fixed ; pale yellow, with the spiracles, 

 eyes, and a row of dorsal marks black. 



478. Cosmosoma sectinota, n. sp. (Plate VIII. fig, 10.) 



Cosinosoma auge, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 60 (part). 



Head black, with metallic blue on frons and vertex; antennae 

 white at tips ; tegulae black, with blue spots ; thorax scarlet, the 

 patagia fringed with black ; legs scarlet, slightly marked with 

 black ; abdomen black, with subdorsal series of triangular scarlet 

 patches except on last two segments, leaving dorsal and lateral 

 triangular black patches with series of metallic blue spots on them ; 

 a series of scarlet spots on the lateral line ; the ventral valve of 

 male white ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black. Fore 

 wing with disoocellular spot; the terminal band very wide on 



