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There is also a beautiful and large specimen allied to P. con- 

 cinna. From the larva of that curious thing, torrefacta Sm.- 



so peculiar as to decide the question at once. Kirby's plate is tolerably good, but too stout. 

 The larva is much slenderer, of a chestnut color, appearing exactly as though it was 

 French-polished, or rather dipped in oil. The pupa is not enclosed in a close cocoon as 

 represented in Donovan's wretched plate, but in three or four leaves loosely spun together. 



Sp. 1. Menus (60) (M>;ruc, Luna). [Heterocampa Astarte Doubl.] St. John's Bluff, 

 E. F., rare. Mar. and Apr. Alts anticls liridi-cinereo ferrugineoque variis, macula 

 juxta apicem lunata alba ferrugineo maryinata. 



Sp. 2. Athereo (56). (Name of an Indian chief who welcomed the French Hugue- 

 nots to the banks of the St. John's, E. F., then the San Mateo; vide Cardenas.) St. 

 John's Bluff, E. F., rare. March and April. Alls anticls olivaceo-viresccntibus, atomis 

 panels obscurioribus albidis niyrisque variis. Striyis duabus transversis comminentibus, 

 quorum una e lunulls altera epunctls subtrigonis, nigris. 



Sp. 3. Manteo (57). (Name of Indian Chief.) [Not Lochmceus Manteo Doubl., En- 

 tom., p. 58. The name of Manteo was afterwards applied by Doubleday to No. 813, 

 below; this may be called Heterocampa Doubledayi.'] St. John's Bluff, E. F. April; 

 one specimen only. 



Alls anticisfusco-cinereis, ferrugineo tinctis, striga juxta apicem punctorum fuscorum. 



[Dr. Hams adds to this the following note: Grisled with brownish black (or dusky 

 reddish); fore wings with a short obsolete fascia before the tip, and a row of blackish 

 spots near the margin ; hind wings paler, but dusky, with a darker, transverse band ; an 

 obsolete band at base of fore wings.] 



Closely allied to the above three species is my 319. Of this I have only males taken 

 at Trenton Falls in July, 1839, and by Mr. Moore in July, 1838. It is not very uncom- 

 mon there, though I have but few good specimens. I believe I gave you specimens 

 when at Cambridge. 



Next to these come my 813, 815. [813=Lochmceus Manteo Doubl. 815=Cecrita? 

 bilineata Pack.] They have the maxillae more developed, and differ also in the struc- 

 ture of the antennas. But if I am right as to these, the ? (and of 815 I have only J ), 

 differ very much from Stauropus in the abdomen, being short and simple instead of 

 long and tufted. Probably these ought to constitute a new genus. 



[Dr. Harris remarks of 813: Abbott's figure, No. 330, may possibly be the same as 

 this species. Antennas of 9 simple; of ^ long, bipectinated not quite to tip, pectina- 

 tions narrow. The markings vary, and it is difficult to represent them even by figures. 

 The ? has kidney spot white with two black dots in it; in the $ it is smaller, with 

 one large black spot. A dusky hour-glass shaped band follows the kidney spot, and is 

 terminated externally by double zigzag blackish lines, the outer one of which is inter- 

 rupted with black dots; the description of Lochmceus Manteo applies best to this,] 



814 is so imperfect I know not that anything can be said with certa;nty about it. It 

 differs very much in many respects from 813 and 815. 



[Dr. Harris remarks of 814: Wings brownish white; body dusky, fore wing with a 

 dusky band near the base, continued on the inner edge ; two distant dusky spots near 

 the tip and irregular dusky streaks and crescents between. Hind wings dusky, with an 

 irregular, nearly obsolete, whitish band ; blackish on the hind edge. ? larger; middle of 

 fore wings almost white and without streaks or spots between the band and the spots 

 near the angles.] 



