CTDOSIA. n.KMAT.isl III \. I •) 



female orange. Fore wing with antemedial erect cupreous golden 

 band bent inwards along oosta nearly to base; a quadrate spol 



in end of cell: a postmedial band bent inwards below costa, ex- 

 curved to vein .''>, then incurved. 



Hob. U.S.A., Texas (Bdfrage), 2tf, 1 ? . Exp. -J I millim. 



*4995. Cydosia majuscula. (Plate CXL1X. fig. 8.) 



Penthetrt cula. H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 80(1881); Kirby, Cat. Eet. 



p. 86 ; Dyar, Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 217. 



$. Uniform purplish fuscous with a metallic gloss excepl on 

 cost;i of hind wings : abdomen of female golden yellow at exl remit v. 



ffab. U.S.A., in U.S. Nat. Mus., Georgia, Arizona. Exp. 28 

 millim. 



Genus HJEMATOSTICTA. 



Type. 



Hcematosticta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 542 (1896) sangu 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of Irons and broadly fringed with scales in front, produced to an acute 

 angle at extremity, the 3rd joint short and slender ; t'nm- smooth : eyes I: 

 round ; antenna; of male ciliated : thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 

 and without crests; tibiae smoothly scaled, the spurs Long; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termeu evenly curved and nol 

 crenulate; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6 From 

 below upper angle, 7 from an<;le ; 8 and 10 stalked and 11 anastomosing with 

 th, in to form a small areole, 9 absent. Hind wing with the termen excised at 

 disral told ; veins 3, 4 stalked ; ."> nearly fully developed from well belov i 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4996. Haematosticta sanguiguttata. 



Hamatosiicta saiujiiiguttata, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv p. 542 1896). 



Head and thorax greyish mixed witli pale rufous; palpi rufous, 

 white at tips; antennae slightly ringed with white; metatborax 

 with some fiery red and black scales; abdomen pale rufous with 

 some fiery red at sides towards base; pectus, legs, and ventral 





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Fig. \.— ll . atosticta '/lata, $ . 



surface of abdomen white, the fore legs blackish in front. I 

 wing pale rufous, the costal area irrorated with black and grej to 

 near apex ; a curved subbasal black and red striga fro] and 



