158 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



with brownish, with a long, dark-chestnut patch interposed in the 

 medio-central interspace; a ferruginous patch at the base of apical 

 interspace, with two dark-brown adjacent patches in the succeed- 

 ing interspaces. The fringes dark-brown in the middle, pale yel- 

 low in the excavations, and bordered by dark-brown. Posterior 

 wings bright-red, with a dark-brown terminal band ; fringes from 

 the tip to the centre brownish, and thence to anal angle pale 

 yellow. 



Canada; Massachusetts; New York; Pennsylvania; New Hamp- 

 shire. 



CLEMENS. 



DEIDAMIA CLEMENS. 



Size moderate. The body is quite fusiform, and the inclination 

 of the sides of the thorax to the head is. quite abrupt. The head 

 is small, almost impacted on thorax, but not depressed ; it is com- 

 pressed laterally and subtufted, the front vertical and moderately 

 broad ; the eyes small, and somewhat sunken ; the labial palpi short 

 and pilose; the tongue extends to the end of the third abdominal 

 segment ; the antennae taper at the end, slightly hooked, and without 

 the terminal seta. The thorax is thick, and well clothed with long 

 decumbent hair. The abdomen is long, rather slender and oblau- 

 ceolate, with an exceedingly slight terminal tuft. The legs are 

 rather slender, and moderately long, the anterior tibiae tufted at the 

 sides ; the posterior with two very short middle and terminal spurs 

 concealed in the tibial hairs. The anterior wings are about equal 

 in length to that of the body, and are a little more than twice 

 longer than broad across the inner angle; the hind margin angu- 

 lated in the middle, truncate at the tip, excavated from the post- 

 apical nervule to the medio-superior, and angularly indented above 

 the inner angle ; the inner margin concave. The posterior wings 

 are rounded at the tips, hind margin slightly denticulated. The 

 submedian nerve is' simple at the base. Male, antennse ciliferous. 

 Female, antennae simple. 



