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and metathorax with white patches ; antennae white at tips ; patagia 

 with cupreous red patches ; pectus with white spots ; femora 

 .striped and tibiae and tarsi spotted with white; abdomen with 

 ventral white bands. Fore wing black suffused with brilliant blue ; 

 a white spot at base followed by a cupreous red spot below costa ; 

 three antemedial white spots, the one below the cell largest ; a 

 sinuous cupreous antemedial line ; three medial white spots, the 

 one on costa elongate, that in cell rounded, and the one below the 

 cell quadrate, followed by cupreous, often conjoined, spots on sub- 

 costal and median nervures ; a large white spot in end of cell 

 followed by a somewhat lunulate spot beyond it and a quadrate 





Fig. 3. — Cydosia nobilitella, J. 



spot below it ; a postmedial cupreous line curved inwards below 

 costa, often to the medial spots, and incurved below vein 3 ; some 

 white streaks and spots on costa towards apex; a subterminal 

 series of irregular white spots with some smaller spots above them 

 below cosia and beyond them before termen ; cilia white, black 

 above middle and tornus. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the 

 costal area, an apical patch, and the termen black or mostly black ; 

 cilia white at tips. Underside of fore wing with some white spots 

 in and beyond cell and a subterminal series of small spots extending 

 to apical patch of hind wnng. 



2 . Abdomen with the terminal segment orange ; hind wing 

 wholly black or with a little white in and below cell. 



Hah. Jamaica (Gosse, Cockerel!), 2 <3 , 2 $ , type jamaicensis, 

 Constant Springs ( Wahmgham), 1 S ? Moneague ( Walsingham), 1 cS ; 

 Cuba, Santiago (Schaus), 2 J , 2$; Haiti (Tweedie), 2 d , 1 2 : 

 Bahamas (Neville Chamberlain), 1 J, Nassau (Bonhote), Id 1 , 1 2 ; 

 Antigua (Gregory), 1 J ; Tobago; St. Lucia (Rotherham, Coivie), o J , 

 4$ ; St. Vincent (H. H. Smith), 3d; Grenadines (IT. IT. Smith), 

 1 J ; Barbados (Frampton), 5 c? ; Trinidad (Hart. Kaye), 1 6 , 1 2 ; 

 Colombia, Honda, 1 S ; Venezuela, 2 J , 1 $ : Br. Guiana (Rochvay), 

 IS ; Brazil, 1 3 , Zeller Coll., Para (Bates), 1 <$ , l'ernambuco 

 (Ridley), 1 £ . Exp. 28-32 millim. 



Larva. Cockerell, Psyche, 1897, p. 130; Dyar, Psyche. 1897, p. 154. 



Semilooper with the front pro-legs absent ; velvety black with 

 orange, dorsal and lateral marks with minute pale yellow spots 

 between them except on 3rd, 4th and 5th somites ; 3rd somite with 

 four shining black spines ; 4th and 5th somites with two spines; the 

 rest of body with fine black hairs ; frons and legs black with orange 



