308 SYNTOMID^. 



below cell near base and at middle and beyond upper angle^ 



often absent, and two 

 spots beyond lower angle. 

 Hind wing with byaline 

 white patch below base of 

 cell. 



Hah. U. S. A., Georgia, 

 Florida; 2 c? , 1 $ , 

 type ferox. Exp. 48 

 Fig. 139.— Spitomeida ipomecs, (S . \. millim. 



680, Ssmtomeida epilais. 



Euchromia epilais, Wlk. i. 227 (1854) ; Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 23, pi. 8. f. 5 ; 

 Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 43 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 123. 



Blue-black ; antennae white at tips ; sides of thorax and legs 

 spotted with white ; abdomen with two dorsal white spots on 1 st 

 segment with a point between them, followed by three lateral and 

 two sublateral spots ; the last two segments deep crimson-red. 

 Fore wing with white spot at base of costa ; a spot below middle of 

 cell and small spot in cell towards upper angle ; two spots beyond 

 upper angle and two betAveen veins 3 and 5. Hind wing -with 

 white spot beyond end of cell ; the cilia white at middle of inner 

 margin. 



Fore wing with vein 1 1 from the cell ; 4, 5 approximated for some 

 distance. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), Yucatan (Grnimer) : British 

 HoNDUKAs (Blancanecmx), Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Hondueas, type. 

 Exj). 52 miUim. 



Larva, Dyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 72, pi. iii. f. 10, & Insect Life, ii. p. 360. 



Efig hemispherical, minutely punctured, base flat ; laid in masses 

 under leaves. 



Larva, mature. Head orange-red, palpi whitish, jaws dark ; 

 somites red, with shiny black warts in subdorsal space on somites 

 5-13; a subdorsal series ; a suprastigmatic series ; a stigmatie series 

 behind spiracles ; two subventral series ; somites 2, 3, 4 with one series 

 only ; the cervical spot and anal plate with row of black points ; 

 the subdorsal and stigmatie series on somites 3, 4, and the supra- 

 stigmatic on 7-11, and the subdorsal on 12 & 13 with long 

 pencils of fine black hair, the others with thin tufts of short hair ; 

 the subdorsal space on median somites posteriorly conjoined on 

 dorsum ; a series of spots in stigmatie space posteriorly, and a fainter 

 series in subventral space sometimes almost forming a band ; legs 

 black, prolegs black on outer side ; spiracles small aud black. 

 Lengtli 30 millim. Food-plant, Nerium odorum. 



Cocoon thin, formed of hair and silk. 



Pupa depressed behind thorax, somewhat flat below ; abdominal 

 segments fixed, cremaster absent ; orange, with black streaks, 

 one on head, two on collar ; two angulated lines on thorax . 



