CYDOSTA. 



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sliglitly fringed with scales below ; frons vf itb large rounded prominence with 

 Small corneous process with raised edges at middle aud curved corneous 

 plate below it exois-ad in front; eyes large, i-onnd ; antenme of male minutely 

 cduited ; thorax smoothly clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crest; tibise smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wmg long and 

 narrow, the apex rounded, tlie termen evenly curved ; veins 3 nnd 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle or stalked with 7, 8, 9, 7 from beyond 

 y ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 obsolescent froui 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 strongly stalked ; S anastomosing with tiie cell to 

 middle. 



A. Thorax and fore wing with white spots. 



a. Pore wing with white spots on inner area. 



a^. Fore wing without white spot beyond the cell siibmiUata. 



61. Fore wing wiih one white spot beyond tlie cell. 

 a^. Patagia with cupreous golden patcli. 



aJ^. Fore wing with subterminal series of white 



points aud three white spots nohilitella. 



h'i. Fore wing with subterminal series of short streaks, mlmica. 



i2. Patagia without cupreous golden patch imitella. 



c'. Fore wing with two white spots beyond the cell pluedra. 



b. Fure wing without white spots on inner area ^ji(«c/w^r;V/«. 



B. Thorax and fore wing without white spots, 



a. Fore wing with cupreous golden ante- and postmedial 



bands anrivitfa. 



b. Fore wings without markings mujascula. 



4988. Cydosia submutata. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 3.) 



Eggyna submutata, Wlk„ xxxv. 1895 (18(i6). 



$ . Black suiFiised with brJlliarit purple ; sides of frons, vertex of 

 head, tegulse, shoulders, patagia at extremities and pro- and meso- 

 thorax with white patches ; patagia with golden patches ; abdomen 

 with ventral white bands, the terminal segment orange. Foie 

 wing with white spot at base ; a subbasal golden streak below 

 eosta ; an antemedial white spot below cell and points in cell and on 

 inner margin ; an antemedial somewhat sinuous golden band ; 

 white spots in middle and end of cell ; cupreous medial spots below 

 costa and cell ; a postmedial golden band strongly bent inwards 

 below costa and with its outer edge somewhat dentate ; three 

 subterminal white spots, the largest above middle ; some points 

 below costa towards apex aud before termen below apex ; cilia 

 white, black at middle and tornus. Hind wing black suffused with, 

 purple, the cilia white at tips. Underside of fore wing with some 

 subterminal white points on apical half. 



Hah. Haiti {Tu'eedie), 1 $ type. Exp. 30 millim. 



4989. Cydosia nobilitella. 



riialfsna nobilitella, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 128, pi. 264 G (1779). 

 Bombyx hi&trio, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 203 (178L)."^<?fc':'' ''i t/ 

 Ct/dosia. jamaicensis. Cockerel!, J. Inst. Jam. i. p. 135 (1^96). 

 Cydosia westwoodi, Druce, Eiol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 402 (1897). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen blue-black ; 1st joint of p;ilpi, 

 sides of frons, tcguLe, shoulders, patagia at extremities, pro-, mcso-, 



