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4992. Cydosia phsedra. 

 Cydosia pfondra, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Ilet. ii. p. 402, pi. 78. f. 1G (1897). 



Black shot with deep blue; 1st joint of palpi, sides of frons, 

 vertex of head, tegulae, shoulders, patagia at extremity, pro- aud 

 mesothorax with "white spots; pectus and legs with white spots; 

 abdomen with white ventral bands, the anal tuft orange in female. 

 Fore wing with white spot at base ; antemedial spots below cell 

 and on inner margin ; an erect antemedial cupreous band bent 

 inwards below costa to near base and not quite reaching inner 

 margin ; a rounded medial white spot in cell aud more elongate 

 spot below cell; a cupreous band across the cell ; a bar-shaped 

 white discoidal spot with two small quadrate spots beyond it and 

 slight streak below it ; a slightly curved postmedial cupreous band ; 

 subterminal white spots above and below middle and some white 

 points below costa. Hind wing black suffused with purplish blue, 

 the cilia white at tips. Underside of fore wing with subterminal 

 series of white spots. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 d type, Orizaba (Florh), 1 £ , 

 Yucatan (Gavmer), 1 $; Guatemala {Champion), 1 J. 2 $; 

 Costa Hica (Van Patten, Underwood), 1 J, 1 2; Panama (J.J. 

 Waller), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 30-36 millim. 



4993. Cydosia puuctistriga. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 6.) 

 Cydosia punctistriga, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 150 (1904). 



3 . Head and thorax black-brown ; frons with lateral white 

 points above ; tegulae at sides and patagia with white spots, the 

 pro- and mesothorax with paired white points, the metathorax with 

 single point ; pectus with lateral white spots, the hind tibiae with 

 white ring at extremity : abdomen dark brown with the extremity 

 orange, the ventral surface with white bands on 1st four segments. 

 Pore wing dark brown, the costal area suffused with metallic 

 cupreous red to near apex ; a white spot in base of cell followed 

 by a streak, then four spots, then a wedge-shaped streak beyond 

 the cell with a small spot above its extremity, be)-ond which is a 

 short streak to termen with a point below its basal end ; small 

 antemedial cupreous red spots above and below submedian fold ; 

 subterminal cupreous red spots below discal and submedian folds 

 with a white point between them ; a series of small white spots just 

 before termen. Hind wing fuscous brown irrorated with a few 

 white scales ; the underside with white spots just before termen 

 above and below vein 7. 



Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana (D. Jones), 1 J . Exp. 30 millim. 



4994. Cydosia aurivitta. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 7.) 



Cydosia aurivitta, Grote & Bob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 186 (1869); 

 *Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 217. 



Black suffused with deep blue ; abdomen with the anal tuft in 



