I J DOSIA. 1 1 



slightly fringed with scales below; frons witb large rounded promi ■■■ with 



.-mall corneous process witb raised edges al middle aud curved corneous 

 plate below u excised in front; eyes large, round ; antennae of malo minutely 

 ciliated; thorax smoothly clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crest; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and 

 narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved ; v. -ins :i and 5 from near 

 angle of cell; (i from upper angle or stalked with 7,8,9,7 from beyond 

 'J; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 obsolescent from 



e of discocellulars ; 6, 7 strongly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the© 

 middle. 



A. Thorax and fore wing with white spot3. 



a. Fore wing with white spots on inner area. 



a 1 . Fore wing with oul white spot beyond the cell submutaia, 



b l . Pore wing with one white spot beyond the cell. 

 a s .* Patagia with cupreous golden patch. 



«•*. Fore wing with Bubterminal series of white 



points and three white spots nobilitella. 



&3. Fore wing with subterminal Beries of short streaks, mimica. 



/>-. Patagia without cupreous golden patch imitella. 



'■'. Fore wing with two white sp its b yond the cell phcedra. 



b. Fore wing without white spots on inner area punctistriga. 



Ii. Thorax anil fore wing without white spots. 



a. Fore wing with cupreous golden ante- and postmedial 



bands aurivitta. 



b. Fore wmgs without markings majuscula. 



4988. Cydosia subuiutata. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 3.) 

 Eggyna submutata, Wlk. xxxv. 1895 (1866). 



5 . Black suffused with brilliant purple ; sides of irons, vertex of 

 head, tegulse, shoulders, patagia at extremities and pro- and mi 

 tlmiax with white patches; patagia with golden patches; abdomen 

 with ventral white bands, the terminal segment orange Foie 

 wing with white spot at base; a subbasal golden streak below 

 eosta; an antemedial white spot, below cell and points in cell an 

 inner margin ; an antemedial somewhat sinuous golden hand ; 

 white spots in middle and end of cell ; cupreous medial spots below 

 costa and cell; a postmedial golden band strongly bent inwards 

 below costa and with its outer edge somewhat dentate; three 

 subterminal white spots, the largest above middle; some points 

 below eosta towards apex and before termen below apex ; cilia 

 w lute, black at middle aud tornus. Hind wing black suffused wit h 

 purple, the cilia white at tips. Underside of fore wing with some 

 Bubterminal white points on apical half. 



Bab. Haiti (Tweedn ), 1 $ type. E.rp. 30 millim. 



4989. Cydosia nobilitella. 



Vhalrena nobilitella, Cram. Tap. Exot. iii. L28, pi. 2) 



Bombyx histrio, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. U<>:; | 17^ 



' i jamaicensis, Cockerel 1, J. fnst. Jam. i. p. 135 189 



<//■ Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Het. ii. p. \0'2 1897). 



d. Head, thorax, and abdomen blue-black; 1st joint of palpi, 

 Bides of frons, tegulse, shoulders, patagia lI extremities, pro . 



