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NOCT(JID.E. 



and metathorax with wliite patches ; antennae white at tips ; patagia 

 with cupreous red patches ; pectus wir,h w^hite spots ; femora 

 striped and tibiae and tarsi spotted with white ; abdomen with 

 ventral white bands. Fore wing black suffused with brilliant blue ; 

 a white spot at base followed by a cupreous red spot below costa ; 

 three antemedial white spots, the one below the cell largest ; a 

 sinuous cupreous antemedial line ; three medial white spots, the 

 one on costa elongate, that in cell rounded, and the one below the 

 cell quadrate, followed by cupreous, often conjoined, spots on sub- 

 costal and median nervures ; a large white spot in end of cell 

 followed by a somewhat lunulate spot beyond it and a quadrate 



Fig. 3. — Cydosia nobill fella, S ■ 



spot below it ; a postmedial cupreous line curved inwards below 

 costa, often to the medial spots, and incurved below^ vein 3 ; some 

 white streaks and spots on costa towards apex ; a subterminal 

 series of irregular white spots with some smaller spots above them 

 below cosla and beyond them before termen ; cilia white, black 

 above middle and tornus. Hind wing semihyaline Avhite ; the 

 costal area, an apical patch, and the termen blade or mostly black ; 

 cilia white at tips. ITnderside of fore wing with some white spots 

 in and beyond cell and a subterminal series of small spots extending 

 to apical patch of hind wing. 



$. Abdomen with the terminal segment orange; hind wing 

 ■wholly black or with a little w^hite in and below cell. 



Hah. Jamaica (Gosse, CocJcerell), 2 c? , 2 $ , type _/rt))?a'icei?si'.s-, 

 Constant Springs ( Wahingluim), 1 S -, Moneague ( WcdsingJiam), 1 (5 ; 

 Cuba, Santiago {Seham), 2 c?, 2$; Haiti (Tivcedie), 2 c? , 1 ? : 

 Bahamas {Neville Chamberlain), 1 cT, Nassau (Bonhote), Id, 1 $ ; 

 Antigua ((??v(/or?/), 1 c? ; Tobago; St. Lucia (RotherJiam , Cowie), 5 c? , 

 42 ; St. Vincent {ff. H. Smith), 3 c? ; Geentamkes {H. H. Smith), 

 1 J ; Barbados {Frampton), 5 S ; Teintdau {Hart, Kaye), 1^,1$ ; 

 Colombia, Honda, 1 S ; Venbztjela, 2 J , 1 $ : Br. Guiana {liodivay), 

 1 S ; Brazil, 1 c? , Zeller Coll., Para {Bates), 1 S , Pernambuco 

 {liidley), 1 S ■ Exjp. 28-32 millim. 



Larva. Cockerell, Psyche, 1897, p. 130; Dyar, Psyche. 1897, p. 154. 



Semilooper with the front pro-legs absent ; velvety black with 

 orange, dorsal and lateral marks with minute pale yellow spots 

 between them except on 3rd, 4th and 5th somites ; 3rd somite with 

 four shining black spines ; 4th and 5th somites with two spines ; the 

 rest of body with fine black hairs ; frons and legs black with orange 



