PL AT YS AMI A GLOYERI. NOT. SP. 
Male. Expands inches. 
An ten rue pectinated. Head and thorax dark brownish red; collar white; abdomen 
alternately banded with dark brown and white. 
Upper surface, primaries, inner half dark reddish brown, with a dirty white band 
near the base, and a small white oval diseal spot bordered on the outer and inner sides 
with black ; the dark red colored space is bounded outwardly by a white transverse band 
extending from the costa to the interior margin, widening at the latter termination ; the 
space immediately beyond the white band, occupying fully two-thirds of the exterior half of 
the surface, is dark grey, composed of black and white scales, the exterior portion being 
the darkest ; the remaining space between this and the exterior margin is dirty grey> 
traversed by a serpentine black line ; a short space in from the apex on the costa is a 
small black spot, from which a zigzag white line extends a short distance to another larger 
black spot of an oval shape, which has within it a pale blue crescent ; the space from this 
latter black spot to the costa, and from the zigzag line almost to the white transverse band 
is violet. 
Secondaries have a white basal patch, also a white transverse band, as in Cecropia, the 
color between this baud and the base is dark brownish red ; in the centre is a moderately 
large lunate discal spot, white edged with black ; of the remaining space, between the trans- 
verse band and the exterior margin, the inner two-thirds is composed of black and white 
scales, as in the primaries, and the outer third is light, dirty grey, which latter is divided by 
a black line, on the inside of which line, running parallel with it, is a row of irregularly 
shaped black spots. 
Under surface same as above, with the exception of the ground color of the secondaries 
between the transverse bands and base, which is composed of black and white scales instead 
of being dark red as on the upper surface. 
Female. Expands 5 j inches. 
Antennae not as broadly pectinated as in the male. Head and thorax brownish or brick 
red, much the same as in ordinary forms of Cecropia ; abdomen alternately banded with the 
same color and white.* 
On the primaries the transverse white band is somewhat irregular, and rounded out- 
wardly ; the basal band also rounded ; the discal spot larger than in male, and slightly 
lunate ; the ground color between the transverse band and base is brownish red, of a slightly 
different tint than the thorax ; the portion beyond the transverse band, light dirty grey as 
far as the serpentine line, the inner third of it powdered with a band of reddish scales, 
broader near the exterior margin, and narrowing towards the costa ; margin outside of 
serpentine line dirty white, shaded slightly exteriorly ; the black apical spots and violet patch 
same as in male. 
* As the "bodies of my examples were much rubbed when I received them, some allowance must be made for 
this portion of my description. 
