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or interrupted below the cell, or forking towards costa by being 

 confluent with the postmedial band below the cell, this band being 

 either complete and angled inwards on vein 2, or interrupted below 

 the cell, or not reaching inner margin ; conjoined subterminal spots 

 from costa to vein 4 and a spot from vein 2 to inner margin ; a large 

 apical spot and spots on veins 3, 4. Hind wing orange-yelloAV, the 

 costal and inner areas and the terminal area irregularly suffused 

 with scarlet; a medial black band usually present from costa to 

 median nervure, sometimes with a spot below it on vein 1 ; a sub- 

 terminal band from costa to vein 4, often spots on veins 2 and 1, 

 and sometimes one or two points on middle of termen. 



Ab. 1. esperi. Fore wing with the medial and postmedial bands 

 entirely conjoined. 



Ab. 2. oherthun. Hind wing crimson, with some yellow on costal 

 area and round the black spots. 



Hah. S. EuKOPE, S. France, Zeller and Frey Colls., Spain, Portugal. 

 E.rp., (S 50, $ 56 millim. 



Larva. Black-brown ; the hair from the lateral warts rufous. 



Genus CODIOSOMA. 



Type. 

 Kodiosoma, Stretch, Zjg. & Bomb. N. Am. i. p. 67 (1872) fulva. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, reaching well beyond the frontal tuft and 

 clothed with long hair ; antennse of male bipectinate, the branches very short 

 towards base ; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with long woolly hair ; tibiae 

 with the spurs very short. Fore wing elongate, narrow ; vein 3 from close to 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 1 1 from 

 cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from or from close to angle of cell ; 5 from above 

 angle or from angle, rarely shortly stalked with 4 ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 from middle of cell. 



1970. Codiosoma fulva. 



Kodiosoma fulva, Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 67, pi. 2. f. 7 (1872) 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 244. 

 Kodiosoma, tricolor, Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 68, pi. 2. f 5 (1872) 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 244. 

 Kodiosoma nigra, Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am, p. 68, pi. 2. f. 8 (1872) 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 244. 

 Kodiosoma eavcsii, Stretch, Zvg. k Bomb. N. Am. p. 69, pi. 2. f. 6 (1872) 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 244. "^ 



Fig. l&b.— Codiosoma fulva, (j". }. 



S . Head and thorax black-brown ; tegulae and shoulders ochreous 

 w hite ; tibiae and tarsi ochreous white above, fore femora crimson 



