122 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



ment. Legs black, white beneath. Wings black, bright blue 

 at the base ; cilia white at the tips of the fore-wings and on 

 part of the exterior border of the hind-wings ; fore-wings with 

 an oblique pale red semi-hyaline band ; hind- wings with a 

 discal spot of the same hue." ( Walker.) 



GENUS COMPOSIA. 



Composia, Hiibner, Verz. b^k. Schmett. p. 179 (1822?) ; 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 360 (1874). 



This is a small genus including only a few West Indian 

 and other Tropical American species. The wings are some- 

 what narrow, and much rjunded, the hinder-angle of the 

 fore-wings being completely rounded off. The wings are black, 

 covered with pearly white spots, and are generally more or 

 less marked with red likewise. 



COMPOSIA CREDULA. 

 (Plate LX XXI II. Fig. I.) 



Bombyx credula, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 584, no. 94 (1775). 

 Noctua sybaris, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 71, fig. E (1775). 

 Phalcena sybaris, Beauvois, Ins. Afr. Amer. p. 266, pi. 24, fig. 



7(1821?). 

 Composia credula, Hiibner, Samml. Ex. Schmett. ii. taf. 150 



(1824); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 361, no. 



i (1854). 

 Hypercompa (?) sybaris^ Duncan, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. 



Moths, p. 1 86, pi. 23, fig. i (1841). 



This fine Jamaican Moth expands 2^ inches. It is black 

 with twenty white spots on each of the fore-wings and eighteen 

 on each of the hind-wings ; the latter being placed in three 

 irregular rows. The sides of the head are white ; there are four 

 minute white dots on the collar, succeeded by a row of eight 



