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subdorsal white spots, the other segments except 2nd with lateral 

 spots and the 2nd and 3rd segments with sublateral spots. Fore 

 wing with some white scales at base ; points below base and in 

 end of cell; a subquadrate spot below middle of cell, two spots 

 between veins 3 and 5 and a small spot above 6. Hind wing with 

 elongate spot below base of cell and postmedial spots between veins 

 2 and 5 and above 5. 



2 . Antennye almost completely orange ; hind wing without the 

 spot below base of cell. 



Ilab. Flq-rida, Misimi (ScJiaus), (S 2 '> Ccjba. ^.rjj. 24 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Psyche, 1897, p. 42. 



Egg. Upright, conoidal, rather pointed above, narrowed at base, 

 smooth, shining light ochre-yellow, with bright pearly reflections on 

 side. 



Larva, stage 1. Light orange, immaculate, smooth ; setae long, 

 blackish ; thorax with large subdorsal tubercle with small one 

 below, stigmatal aud subventral tubercles ; abdomen, i and ii 

 normal, iii with two long setae, iv very small, v rather large ; log- 

 plate with short setae. 



Stages 2, 3. Uniform orange ; hair fine, in spreading tufts, light 

 slate-grey. 



Stage 4. Somite 2 retracted, three tubercles on thorax ; skin 

 orange, shaded dorsally with grey and with subventral stripe ; iv 

 absent except on somite 12 ; hairs barbuled. 



Stage 5. Orange-red, with broad dorsal and sublateral dark 

 stripes ; spiracles whitish ; tubercles i and ii on somites 5-12 with 

 short, rather sparse brushes of hair. Food-plant Mifginda iliclfolia, 

 December. 



Cocoon. Elliptical, of hair and silk. 



Pupa. Light brown, smooth and shining. 



570. Pseudomya sithon. 



Pseudocharis sithon, Druce, Biol. Oeiitr.-Aiu., Het. i. p. 57, pi. 7. f. 7 

 (1884) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 138. 



(S . Black-brown ; antennae white at tips ; crimson patches at 

 base of patagia ; coxae white ; abdomen with broad lateral crimson 

 bands. Both wings with more or less developed hyaline streaks in 

 cell, in submedian interspace, and between bases of veins 2 and 5. 



Ab. 1. With the markings orange-yellow instead of crimson. 



Hab. Mexico, Guerrei o, 8000 feet (H. H. Smith) ; Guate- 

 mala, S. Geronimo {Cham^rion), type Godman-Salvin Coll. E.ip. 

 24 millim. 



571. Pseudomya picta. (Plate X. fig. 24.) 

 Fseudomya picta, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 226. 



S . Fuscons brown ; frons edged with whitish ; vertex of head, 

 shoulders, and metathorax with patches of magenta ; pectus with 

 lateral whitish patches ; abdomen with the first two segments and 



