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There are eight specimens of this species in the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology from Hispaniola and Jamaica; 
they show no racial differences. Puerto Rican specimens 
are said to agree with these also. 
2. Composia utowana, n. sp. 
The front is black, with white lateral stripes ; the palpus 
is black and white: the third joint proportionately smaller 
than in credula or fidelissima. The thorax is black with 
three transverse rows of small spots above: the first two 
rows yellow, the last white, in the male, only the first row 
yellow in the female ; beneath, the white is more extensive. 
The legs are marked much as in fidelissima. The abdomen 
is blue, the anterior edge of each segment marked with 
white, which forms a complete transverse band, except for 
a narrow mid-dorsal interruption. 
The wings are black, with most of the hindwing, and 
the base and a small area at the tip of the cell of the fore- 
wing, irridescent blue. A red patch on the forewing covers 
the base of the cell and the lower half of the costa; three 
rows of white spots on this wing are similar in number 
and position to the spots on fidelissima, but much larger, 
and there are three additional spots in the median area 
never found in that species. The three rows of white spots 
on the hindwing are arranged as in credula, but are larger 
and more irregular. The pattern of the upper surface is 
repeated below. 
Holotype ( 3 ), and allotype ($), No. 16594, in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, from Mariguana Island, 
Bahamas, Feb. 25, 1933, T. Barbour and David Fairchild. 
This lovely moth is named after Allison V. Armour’s 
yacht, the Utowana: the means through which our knowl- 
edge of tropical island life in both hemispheres has been 
greatly enlarged. 
3a. Composia fidelissima fidelissima H. S. 
Composia fidelissima Herrich-Schaffer, 1866, p. 132 ; Gund- 
lach, 1881, p. 250; Forbes, 1930, p. 41. 
Phaloesia olympia Butler, 1871, p. 290. 
