CYDOSIA. HJEMATOSTICTA. 



1; 



female orange. JFore wing with antemedial erect cupreous golcien 

 hand bent inwards along costa nearly to base ; a quadrate spot 

 in end of cell ; a postmedial baud bent inwards below costa, ex- 

 curved to vein 3, then incurved. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas {Bdfracje), 2 J, 1 $ . Exp. 24 millim. 



*4995. Cydosia majuscula. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 8.) 



Penthetria majuscula. II. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 80 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. Hefc. 

 p. 86 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 217. 



5 . Uniform purplish fuscous with a metallic gloss except on 

 costa of hind wings ; abdomen of female golden yellow at extremity. 



Hah. U.S.A., in U.S. Nat. Mus., Georgia, Arizona. Exi^. 28 

 millim. 



Genus H^MATOSTICTA. 



HcBViatosticta, Hmpsn. Mollis Ind. iv. p. 542 (1896). 



Type. 

 sanguigiUtata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joint reaching about to 

 middle of f'rons and brondly fringed with scales in front, produced to an acute 

 angle at extremity, the 3rd joint short and slender ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 

 and without crests ; tibi.-e smoothly scaled, the spurs long ; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termeu evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from 

 below upper angle, 7 from angle ; 8 and 10 stalked and 11 anastomosing with 

 them to form a small areole, 9 absent. Hind wing with the termen excised at 

 discal fold ; veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from well below middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4996. Hsematosticta sanguiguttata. 



Hmmatosticta sanguiguttata, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv p. 542 (1896). 



Head and thorax greyish mixed with pale rufous ; palpi rufous, 

 white at tips ; antennse slightly ringed with white ; metatborax 

 with some fiery red and black scales ; abdomen pale rufous with 

 some fiery red at sides towards base ; pectus, legs, and ventral 



Fig. 4i.— H(Ematoiiticta sanguiguttata, (^ . 



surface of abdomen white, the fore legs blackish in front. Fore 

 wing pale rufous, the costal area irrorated with black and grey to 

 near apex ; a curved subbasal black and red striga from costa and 



