(January 1883. BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENDOM. SOC. VOL. V. 65 
Description of New Moths. 
By Frep. TEpper. 
Attacus Cinctus, nov. sp. see Plate, figs. 1 & 2. 
Male, "Expanse 4'¢ inches. 
~ Head and thorax brownish-red; collar white; a white band between 
thorax and abdomen; abdomen above pinkish-red, very finely dusted 
with white, with a broad lateral band of white on each side, dotted with 
red in the middle of each segment; beneath red, rather indistinctly band- 
ed and streaked with white; anal tuft red, yellowish beneath; legs light 
brown; antenz pectinated and fawn colored. 
Primaries rather produced at apex; ground color brownish-red with 
black shadings; an angular white basal band bordered inwardly red and 
outwardly by black; the costa is heavily sprinkled with white and black; 
the median field encloses a large irregular triangular semi-transparent 
spot, edged first with white, then with black, and is outwardly bounded 
by a transverse wavy narrow black band, extending from costa to the in- 
terior margin, then by a white band, followed by a narrow one of vermil- 
ion; beyond this the color is brownish-red, heavely powdered with white 
and black on the inner side; the apical area reaching on the costa to the 
red band is light violet with a scalloped white line curving obliquely down- 
ward from apex; the apical eye is composed of two black spots, the outer 
one kidney-shaped, the inner one triangulate; the color between the 
white line and the inner black spot is bright ochraceous; the border is 
olive gray, intersected by a wavy black line, which is bordered outwardly 
by a silvery white band, diminishing toward the inner angle. 
Secondaries same color as primaries; basal band white shaded red in- 
wardly and black outwardly; the median bands are the same as on pri- 
maries; the semi-transparent spot is larger and of an irregular diamond 
shape; the border encloses interiorly irregular spots of red, which grow 
smaller and darker towards the anal angle, where there is one pretty large 
black spot. 
The underside of both wings is much the same as above, only that 
the colors are less vivid, and that the basal bands are barely visible; the 
costa on secondaries from base to the median band is white, faintly bor- 
dered by black below. One male only examined. 
female; Expanse 44% to 5 inches, 
Eight specimens served as types, and it is necessary to say that they 
vary very considerably in the ground color, some being dark brick-red, 
others dark brown, and others again rich olive-brown, all shaded with 
