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men dull greenish. Anterior wings dull pale green from the base 

 to about the middle, with discal spot and a moderate band across 

 the middle of disk dark green ; a broad dark green shade across 

 the nervules, divided in the middle by an indistinct lighter line, and 

 deeply excavated posteriorly, where there is a dull greenish cine- 

 reous marginal patch. Posterior wings ferruginous, with a dusky 

 green patch near the interior angle. 



Mature Larva. Head pale green, with an indistinct, lateral 

 yellowish line. Body pale green, inclining to yellowish and deep- 

 ening in color beneath the subdorsal lines, which are greenish- 

 white, and curve on the sides from first segment to base of caudal 

 horn, with seven irregularly oval, greenish-white patches inclosing 

 orange-colored stigmata? and bordered beneath with dark green. 

 There are several small crimson vascular spots on the dorsum. 

 Sometimes reddish-brown, and the subdorsal lines and lateral 

 patches tinged with reddish. Horn reddish-brown, with black 

 tubercles. 



Pupation. Transforms on the surface in an imperfect cocoon. 

 Pupa luteous with the wing-cases brown and dotted with lines of 

 black dots; eye-cases black; abdomen with the incisions between 

 the segments black and round black lateral spots. The fall brood 

 of larvae enter the pupa state from the latter part of August to 

 the middle of September. 



Pennsylvania; Massachusetts; Georgia; New York. 



CLEMENS. 



3. D. pholus Cramer. Figured in Cram. I, pi. 87. 



Rufescent. Fore wings blackish-brown, with a gray triangular 

 discal patch ; a fawn-colored patch on the median nervules and a 

 red submarginal line, with two marginal brown bands, one arising 

 on the costa at about the origin of post-apical vein, and the other 

 near the margin itself. Posterior wings red, paler towards the base. 



West Indies. 



Tongue scarcely one-half as long as the body. Anterior wings 



excavated behind the tip. 



CLEMENS. 



4. D. versicolor. Chcerocampa versicolor Harris, p. 303, 3. 



Pale green varied with olive and whitish. A white line on each 

 side of the head, a dorsal white line, tinged with reddish and ex- 

 tending from the head to the tip of the abdomen ; prothorax and 



