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a brown shade and this by several indistinct wavy lines; 

 a lunule of brown edged with white at anal angle; hind- 

 wings rosy with gray borders and having a large black spot 

 with two blue spots on it near anal angle. Occasionally 

 a third blue spot appears on the black (var. tripartitus, Gr.) 

 and sometimes but a single spot is found (var. Jamaicensis, 

 Drury). Larva on Eosaceae, also on Willow. Not common. 

 Single brooded, the moth appearing in June, July. Can. to 

 Middle States. Drury's locality, if his indifferent figure re- 

 presents our species, is incorrect. This species with others 

 of this group brings forward the anterior margin of the hind 

 wings in a state of rest. In this position the lovely C. astylus 

 looks like a crumpled leaf. 



Paonias. Hiibn. 



Head small and sunken with a prominent ridged tuft 

 between the antennae; tongue membranous, no longer than 

 palpi ; antennae fusiform, biciliate in males, hooked at the 

 end; thorax short; abdomen long, cylindrical, tapering, seg- 

 ments unarmed ; tibiae unarmed ; forewings regularly scalloped 

 on terminal margin. 



Excaecatiis. Abb. a. Sm. Rich brown and fawn 

 color, forewings crossed by sinuous brown lines ; hindwings 

 rosy red, with a black spot containing a blue center, bordered 

 with fawn color, with a yellowish patch before anal angle. 

 Common. June, July. Can. to Southern States. Larva on 

 Eosaceae, Apple, Plum, Cherry etc., also on a variety of 

 forest trees. 



Cressonia. G. a. R. 



Head small and sunken in thorax; form slender, that 

 of the males recalling the American Bombycid genus Apate- 

 lodes; palpi slim, divaricating at tip; abdomen slender, seg- 

 ments unarmed, with small anal tufts in male ; all the tibiae 

 armed with spinules; wings with the outer margins dentate. 



Juglandis. Abb. a. Sm. Pale grayish fawn; 'fore- 

 wings crossed by brown lines, the females paler colored; 

 hindwings concolorous with wavy brown lines across the 



