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end of the cell, lower at one-half of lower length of the cell ; submedian recurved : 

 hind wing short, very broad, somewhat quadrate ; exterior margin waved, angled and 

 produced to a point at end of upper median branch ; costal vein with a bifid spur 

 near its base ; first subcostal emitted at half length of upper part of the cell, the 

 radial curving from below second subcostal ; cell open ; two upper median branches 

 emitted at more than half distance beyond upper end of the cell ; submedian vein 

 slightly recurved, internal short. Body stout, abdomen short; palpi ascending, 

 pilose, second joint long, extending to level of vertex, third joint shoi't, pointed; 

 antennae long, with a short club ; legs slender. 



CYNTHIA ASELA (Plate 26, Fig. 1 a, b, c). 

 Cynthia Asela, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 558, 



Male. Upperside bright ochreous-yellow, darkest on basal area and marginal 

 border ; forewing with a black medial transverse interrupted line, discoidal streaks, 

 two streaks below the cell, two marginal sinuous lines, and a submarginal row of 

 more or less obsolete lunate spots, the upper spot being pale centred ; an indistinct 

 darker ochreous zigzag fascia across the disc : hindwing with a black medial trans- 

 verse line, an inner discal zigzag ochreous fascia bordering an outer series of spots, 

 the one between the subcostal veins and another between the lower median veins 

 being ocellated, the others indistinct and formed of black speckles ; two marginal 

 sinuous lines. Female dark blue-grey, brightest on hindwing, outer borders brown : 

 forewing with a transverse discal band of broad bluish-white lunules traversed 

 exteriorly by a sinuous line ; an outer row of blackish spots and two submarginal 

 sinuous lines : hindwing with transverse medial narrow black line outwardly bordered 

 at the costal end by a short broad whitish sinuous-margined band; two large 

 prominent discal ocelli with greenish inner ring; two marginal black sinuous lines. 



Expanse, S 3-|, 5 4 inches. 



Larva pale yellow, reddish-brown beneath ; segments brown streaked, spiracles 

 black; head spinous, armed with two long curved thick spinous-tubercles, the 

 segments armed with a dorsal and two lateral rows of long slightly branched spines, 

 the dorsal and upper lateral row arising from a red round tumid spot. Pupa pale 

 reddish-brown, truncated at both ends ; head thick, with two short points, thorax 

 conically pointed at top ; anterior abdominal segments produced thickly outward into 

 a point hindward and forward into two lengthened processes, middle segments 

 with a short dorsal tubercle, the two anal segments with longer basally-thickened 

 processes. 



" Found everywhere, both in the Plains and up to 6000 feet in forest lands all 



