CYDOSIA. 1 3 



marks; length 1| inch. Food-plant: ? Spir/elia antJielmia L. ; the 

 larva cuiis up and drops to the ground when touched ; it turns to 

 pupa in earth. 



4990. Cydosia mimica. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 4.) 



Eggyna mimica, Wlk. xxxv. 1895 (1866). 



$ . Black suffused with brilliant purplish blue ; basal joint of 

 palpi, sides of frons, vertex of head, tegulse, shoulders, patagia at 

 extremities, and pro- and mesothorax with white patches ; patagia 

 with golden patches ; pectus and legs spotted with white ; abdomen 

 with the anal tuft orange, the ventral surface with white bands. 

 Fore wing with white spot at base and golden patch below costa : 

 three antemedial elliptical white spots ; a slightlj^ sinuous ante- 

 medial golden band; lour medial white spots, those below costa 

 and on inner margin elongate, the spot in cell rounded and the one 

 below it quadrate and followed bj- a sinuous golden band across 

 cell ; a white rcniform spot in end of cell with a spot beyond the 

 cell, a quadrate spot below it and slight streak on inner margin ; a 

 postmedial golden band strongly bent inwards to costa and in- 

 curved below vein 3 ; some white points below costa towards apex 

 and a subterminal series of short streaks ; cilia white, black at tips 

 and above tornus. Hind wing and cilia black tinged with purplish 

 blue. Underside of fore wing with white spot in end of cell and 

 a subterminal series of spots extending to apical area of hind 

 wing. 



Hah. Brazil, Amazons, Villa jSTova {Bates), 1 5 type. Exp. 32 

 millim. 



4991. Cydosia imitella. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 5.) 



Cijdosia imitella, Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. i. p. 163, pi. 7. f. 8 (1873) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 21(5. 



Black suffused with brilliant purplish blue ; basal joint of palpi, 

 sides of frous, vertex of head, tegulae, shoulders, patagia at extremity, 

 and pro- and mesothorax with white patches ; abdomen with ventral 

 white bauds, the terminal segment orange in female. Fore wing 

 with white spot at base ; an antemcdinl white spot beloAv the cell 

 a'ld short streak on inner margin, followed by a cupreous band 

 running inwards along costa to base ; medial white spots in and 

 below cell ; a quadrate cupreous patch in end of cell ; bar-shaped 

 white spots on and beyond discocellulars and an irregular spot 

 below end of cell ; a postmedial cupreous band, iucurved to costa 

 and somewhat angled inwards in submedian fold ; three subterminal 

 white spots with three points above them below costa; cilia white, 

 black at tips and towards tornus. Hind wing and cilia black 

 suffused with purplish blue. Underside of fore wing with sub- 

 terminal series of white spots. 



Bah. U.S.A., Texas {Belfrarjc), 1 c? , 1 ? . Exji. 20 millim. 



