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on the front of the thorax ; there are also two on the scutellum, 

 and the apex of each of the lappets is white ; there are also 

 two on the post-scutellum, and four on each of the abdominal 

 segments. 



Very similar, if not identical, species are found in Cuba and 

 Haiti. A still more beautiful species, C. olympia (Butler), is 

 found on the mainland of America; it is flushed with blue, 

 spotted with white, and marked with red spots towards the 

 base of the fore-wings. 



GENUS ANTHOMYZA. 

 Anthomyza,) Swainson, Zool. 111. (2) iii. pi. 124 (1833). 



These, like the other day-flying Arctiidtz of the same group, 

 are distinguished by having the antennae slightly pectinated in 

 the male only ; palpi pointing vertically ; fore-wings with the 

 inner-margin longer than the hind-margin. Hind-wings 

 lengthened horizontally, but narrow and rounded. They fly 

 slowly and heavily during the middle of the day, and on the 

 least touch counterfeit death ; when handled, they discharge a 

 brown liquid, like the Heliconiince, to which Butterflies they 

 bear a striking resemblance. Anthoinyza is a genus remark- 

 able for its unusually long wings. 



ANTHOMYZA TIRESIAS, VAR. 



{Plate LXXXIIL Fig. 2.) 



Attacus tiresias, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 85, fig. B. (1776). 

 Anthomyza tiresia, Swainson, Zool. 111. (2) iii. pi. 124, fig. i 

 (1833); Duncan, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. Moths, p. 

 97, pi. 4, fig. 2 (1841). 



This Moth inhabits South America and extends to Nicaragua. 

 It measures three inches and three-quarters between the ex- 

 tremities of the wings. The fore-wings are black with two 

 broad, opaque, deep yellow bands situated obliquely, the first 

 near the middle, the other, somewhat shorter, towards the 



