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a. Antennae of the male biciliated; tibiae unarmed. 

 Subgenus- Calasymlohts. Gr. 



islylus. Urury. Our handsomest species, of a lovely 

 rosy brown or cinnamon color, suffused with lilac; the tints 

 recalling those prevalent in certain Saturnians or Ennomidae. 

 Forewings but slightly angulated, with a purplish shade on 

 internal margin and crossed by faint darker lines ; a yellow 

 spot at anal angle ; hindwings ochre yellow, shading into 

 rosy brown outwardly and a round black ocellus with a blue 

 pupil rests on the wing near anal angle. Kare. June, July. 

 Larva on Swamp Blueberry (Varrhi'nnn). Canada to Middle 

 States. 



llyops. Abbot a. Sm. This species has the forewings 

 more angulated and is a little slighter while of the same 

 expanse. The wings are choccolate brown, darker and con- 

 fusedly marked by lines and shades ; hindwings yellow 

 margined with brown and with a black, blue pupilled ocellus 

 near anal angle. Larva on Eosacea, (Apple, Plum andCherry). 

 More frequent than Astylus. Canada to Southern States. 

 Single brooded. June, July. 







b. Fore tibiae with a terminal spine. 

 Subgenus Copismerintlius. Gr. 



erisii. Kirby. This is a larger species than Genii- 

 natHs, very rare and inhabiting Canada and the Northern 

 States. The forewings are grey with wavy brown lines; 

 hindwings dull rosy red in the middle and bordered all round 

 with dull clay yellow and there is a black spot connected 

 with the anal angle, on the hinder part of the red, con- 

 taining a horse-shoe shaped spot of blue, the open part to- 

 wards anal angle. In the next species this spot is double. 

 May, June. Larva unknown. 



c. Male antennae bipectinate; tibiae unarmed. 

 Subgenus Eusmcrinthus. Gr. 



Gemiiiatus. Say. Gray, with a faint rosy tint, the 

 forewings crossed by an angulated brown line followed by 



