194 CYDOSIA NOBILITELLA. 



it emits a single branchlet, which is furcate ; more- 

 over, the vein connecting the postcostal and medial 

 veins in the middle of the wing is incomplete, so 

 that the great cell is posteriorly open. 



The wings are shining, the anterior steel-blue, 

 each with about fourteen white marks of variable 

 form arranged thus 13 3 3.1.3; besides which 

 there are several minute white dots near the apex of 

 the wing ; there is also a rich shining orange spot 

 on the costa, near the base, and three transverse 

 bars of the same colour between the white spots : 

 the hind wings are white, with a broad black mar- 

 gin ; the thorax is steel-blue, with six white spots ; 

 the tippets have an orange spot at the base, with 

 the apex white; the scutellum has also a white 

 spot ; the abdomen is steel-blue ; the legs are black, 

 with white marks. 



Cramer's specimen was from the island of Cu- 

 racoa. That here figured is from the island of 

 St. Domingo, and is contained in the cabinet of the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope. The expansion of the wings is 

 one inch and a quarter. 



