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COSYMBIA. By L. B. Prout. 
ignotaria 
triseriata 
benjanrini. 
culicaria. 
dyschroa. 
anaisaria. 
cingeronaria. 
Florida, which is characterized by having a patch of long, coarse hair or hair-like scaling on the outerside of 
the proximal part of hindtibia and some correlated coarse projecting scales on the distal part of the femur. 
Further, the palpus is too long for a true Gosymbia, the A pectinations also long and it seems to make a definite 
transition towards some South American Anisodes (compare the caducaria group). The type locality was 
. merely given as North America (in May), but must probably have been Georgia or Florida. — ab. ignotaria 
Walk, is a larger form, with somewhat better defined circumscription to the cell-dots, but probably does not 
need a separate name. The locality of the type is not known, but the British Museum has also a few from 
. Georgia and the United States Museum has a very perfect match from Everglade, Florida. — ab. triseriata 
nov. (12 d) has generally the size of ignotaria, but is more sharply marked, especially the subterminal macul- 
ation. which divides itself into groups near costa, near hindmargin and between the radials. The name ap¬ 
parently originated from Walker, was used in the British Museum collection by Warren and thence got 
into the synonymy through FIulst; but no description has ever been published. Besides*the original specimen, 
a A from E. Doubleday (no doubt from Florida), the British Museum has a $ from S. Domingo, which in¬ 
dicates that the species should also be sought in the West Indies and renders it possible that this was the 
Gosymbia which Herrich-Schaeffer recorded from Cuba under the name of potato, L. — The larva, accord¬ 
ing to Guenee, feeds on myrtle and is light green, with yellow-reddish head, legs and anal end, the 5th seg¬ 
ment with two small black dots. Pupa darker green with a white lateral line, bright rosy anal extremity and 
edging of the wing-cases. He does not indicate the source of his information, which may, therefore, relate to 
the following species. 
C. benjamirb sp. n. (12 d). In the course of his investigations, Mi. Benjamin has made the interesting, 
yet somewhat embarrassing discovery that there is a second Gosymbia in Florida, so similar to the preceding 
as to be scarcely distinguishable by any superficial test yet applied to it, but cpiite different in the genitalia 
and in the simple (not tufted) <$ hindleg. The 3rd joint of the palpus and the pectinations of the $ antenna 
may be a trifle less long, but the difference if real — is so slight that it can hardly be relied upon. I 
have made very exact comparisons of the type with myrtaria, in the hope that some of them may open up 
clues to the differentiation; but as both species are evidently variable, it cannot be expected that many of 
them will hold throughout. Coloration perhaps slightly less reddish, owing probably to its moderately dark, 
though minute, grey irroration; median shade somewhat better developed; postmedian dots more blackish, 
with a faint shade connecting them; forewing beneath more rosy, hindwing here whitish, becoming slightly 
rosy distally and slightly more so at costa, both wings with faint rosy lines, the rosy terminal very definite, 
swelling a little between the veins. Florida; the type <J from St. Petersburg, October 16—23, in the United 
States National Museum (genit. No. 669, F. H. Benjamin) ; a second from Stemper, July 1—7 (genit. 
No. 678, F. H. B.), the former (but apparently not the latter) looking a little shorter-winged (termen of fore¬ 
wing slightly less oblique) than normal myrtaria. Hindtibia about as long as femur, the tarsus almost 1 ]/> times 
as long. The same Museum kindly sent for my examination a number of Florida Gosymbia , including seveial 
from these two localities, but nearly all $ and mostly in poor condition; the 4 which have still a hindleg 
are myrtaria and show that both species occur at St. Petersburg; the Stemper 2$ include none of the triseriata, 
forms and are, I think, chiefly (perhaps wholly) benjamini. 
C. culicaria Guen. (12 e). Readily distinguishable by its small size, rather narrow forewing, regularly 
rounded margin of hindwing, rosy fringes, etc. Our figure is from a Lakewood (New Jersey) (J, dated 28 April; 
the 2nd brood specimens are often considerably smaller still. Local in the southern Atlantic States (New 
Jersey to Florida), the originals from Georgia. 
C. dyschroa Prout (12 e). Quite unlike all the rest of the Gosymbia in its glossy greenish tinge, dark 
reddish terminal line, etc.; apex of forewing acute; hindwing well angled. Described from Trinidad, known 
also from French Guinea and Para. 
C. anaisaria Schaus, described from a 2 as Craspedia , belongs here. Shape about as in dyschroa. 
“Light buff, sparsely irrorated with violaceous brown scales. Discal points yellow, circled with dark viola¬ 
ceous; an outer row of violaceous points on veins; a terminal row of black points between the veins; a faint 
darker shade between the discal spots and inner margins; dark points on subcostal and median veins of fore¬ 
wing at y 3 from base. Underneath forewing shaded with brown; discal spots less distinct; outer and terminal 
rows of points." Sao Paulo. I have access only to a few $$ from Castio, Parana in poor condition. 
C. angeronaria Warr. (12 e). Yellow, so densely irrorated and strigulated with reddish as to appear 
more or less orange or (if the irroration is brighter rose-colour) more pinkish. Variable in the strength of the 
markings, especially the median shade, which may be almost obsolete or quite conspicuous. S. E. Brazil (Rio 
district to Castro, Parana). 
wossi. C. mossi sp. n. (14 f). Near angeronaria (12 e) but can scarcely be a form of it. Termen of forewing 
straighter, making the apex appear more acute; of hindwing less bent at the 3rd radial. A purple terminal 
