46 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Cydiinon brasiliensis, Guenee, Uran. et Phal. i. p. 7, pi. i. fig. i 



(1857). 



This species, which is common in Brazil, is banded with 

 black and green in a manner very similar to the last species. 

 The pattern will be better understood from our figure than 

 from a description. It measures three or four inches across 

 the wings, and may be distinguished from the true C. !ei7us, 

 for which Cramer mistook it, by the markings of the hind- 

 wings. There is less white towards the anal angle, the tail is 

 more broadly black along the intersecting nervules, and the 

 sub-marginal green markings are divided into distinctly 

 separated oblong spots. Swainson records a flight observed 

 by him at Pernambuco on June 12, 1817, from north to south. 

 They flew near the ground, against a rather strong wind, but 

 mounted over every obstacle in their path ; and their flight was 

 so rapid that he could not secure a single specimen. They 

 flew singly, about 50 or 60 passing thus before mid-day, and 

 this flight continued for three or four days. 



CYDIMON BOISDUVALII. 



Urania boisduvalii, Guerin, Icon. R. Anim. Ins. p. 490, pi. 82, 

 fig. i (1829-1844); Gray, in Griffiths' Anim. Kingdom, 

 xv- p- 595> Pi- 99. fi gs. i, la (1832). 



Urania fernar.iince^ Macleay, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. i. p. 

 180, pi. 26 (transf.) (1835). 



This is the species which is found in Cuba. It may be 

 known by the fore-wings being marked with eleven trans- 

 verse green stripes of nearly uniform width, the seventh bifid; 

 the hind-wings have a broad central green band, and some 

 linear markings beyond ; the incisions are white, and the tail 

 is black. 



The habi's and transformations of this Moth have been de- 



