i roosiA. 13 



marks; length 1^ inch. Food-plant: ? Spigdia anihelmia L. ; the 



larva curb up and drops to the ground when touched; it tun 

 pupa in earth. 



4990. Cydosia rnimica. (Plate C'XLJX. fig. 4.) 

 Eggyna mimica, Wlk. xxxv. 1895 (1860). 



$. Black suffused with brilliant purplish blue: basal join! 

 palpi, sides of frons, vertex of head, tegulse, shoulders, patagia at 

 extremities, and pro- and mesothorax with white patches; patagia 

 with golden patches : pectus and legs spotted with white : abdomen 

 with the anal tuft orange, the ventral surface with white bands. 

 Fore wing with white spot at base and golden patch below cost a : 

 three antemedial elliptical white spots; a slightly sinuous ante- 

 medial golden hand; four medial white spots, those below costa 

 and on inner margin elongate, the spot in cell rounded and the one 

 below it quadrate and followed by a sinuous golden band a> 

 cell : a white reniform spur in end of cell with a spot beyond the 

 cell, a quadrate spot below it and slight streak on inner margin ; a 

 postmedial golden band strongly bent inwards to eosta and in- 

 curved below vein 3 ; some white points below costa towards apex 

 and a subterminal series of short streaks; cilia white, black at tips 

 and above tomus. Hind wing and cilia black tinged with purplish 

 blue. Underside of fore wing with white spot in end of cell and 

 a subterminal series of spots extending to apical area of hind 

 * ing. 



Uub. Brazil, Amazons, Villa Xova (B>tt>s), 1 £ type. Erp. 32 

 millim. 



4991. Cydosia imitella. (Plate CXL1X. fig. 5.) 



' U u , Stretch, Z; g. >■. Bomb. EJ. Am. i. p. 163, pi. 7. I'. - 



Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. \>. 216. 



Black suffused with brilliant purplish blue; basal joint of palpi, 

 sides of frons, vertex of head, tegulae, shoulders, patagia at extremity, 

 and pro- and mesothorax with white patches; abdomen with ventral 

 white hands, the terminal segment orange in female. Fore wing 

 with white spot at base; an antemedial white- low the cell 



a"d short streak on inner margin, followed by a cupreous band 

 running inwards along costa to base ; medial whi; in and 



w cell ; a quadrate cupreou> patch in end of cell ; bar-shaped 

 white spots on and beyond discocellulars and an irregul 

 below end of cell ; a postmedial cupreous hand, incurved I 

 and Bomewhat angled inwards in Bubmedian fold ; three subterminal 

 white spots with three points above them below , - ; cilia white, 

 black at tips and towards tornus. Hind wing and cilia black 

 suffused with purplish blue. Underside of fore wing with e 

 terminal series of white spots. 



Bab. U.S. \.. Texas . 1 ". 1 ;. _ millim. 



