J94 
CYDOSIA NOBILITELLA. 
it emits a single branclilet, which is furcate ; more- 
over, the vein connecting the postcostal and medial 
veins in the middle of the wing is incomplete, so 
that the great cell is posteriorly open. 
The wings are shining, the anterior steel-blue, 
each with about fourteen white marks of variable 
form arranged thus 1 3 3 3.1.3; besides which 
there are several minute white dots near the apex of 
the wing ; there is also a rich shining orange spot 
on the costa, near the base, and three transverse 
bars of the same colour between the white spots : 
the hind wings are white, with a broad black mar- 
gin ; the thorax is steel-blue, with six white spots ; 
the tippets have an orange spot at the base, with 
the apex white; the scutellum has also a white 
spot ; the abdomen is steel-blue ; the legs are black, 
with white marks. 
Cramer’s specimen was from the island of Cu- 
ra 9 oa. That here figured is from the island of 
St. Domingo, and is contained in the cabinet of the 
Eev. F. W. Hope. The expansion of the wings is 
one inch and a quarter. 
