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7. S. juglandis Abbot fr Smith. Figured in Sm. Abb. I, pi. 29. 



Palpi reddish brown or dark brown; head and thorax pale fawn 

 color or pale grayish, with a more or less distinct thoracic dorsal, 

 brownish stripe. Abdomen fawn color or unicolor. Anterior 

 wings, from the base to about the middle of disk, pale gray," with 

 a faint lilac tinge or pale fawn color, and a brownish line crossing 

 the basal part of the disk; a broad median shade, with its posterior 

 margin commencing on the costa midway between the origin of 

 post-apical vein and the tip, and inclined to about the middle of 

 inner margin, darkest at the edges and ochraceous brown, dark 

 brownish or ferruginous brown, and sometimes almost obsolete 

 above the medio-posterior vein, whence are emitted two lines which 

 mark the outline of the shade ; a line of the same hue parallel to 

 posterior margin of median shade, with an intervening paler space 

 and a light-colored shade near hind margin, extending from disco- 

 central vein to the inner angle; the marginal space dark colored, 

 with a small light-colored costal spot extended to the tip. Poste- 

 rior wings ochraceous brown, or dull fawn color, with a central 

 light-colored band edged on each side by dark lines, corresponding 

 to the posterior edge of median shade and its parallel line. 



Mature Larva. Head pale reddish brown, with a pale yellow 

 lateral stripe and granulations. Body pale green or yellowish green, 

 with oblique lateral crimson streaks, edged beneath with pale yel- 

 low ; body tinged with crimson above the prolegs and behind the 

 horn ; granulations pale yellow ; horn brownish, with blackish 

 spinules. Feet dark reddish brown. Length about 2^- inches. 



Pupation. The pupa is blackish brown, roughened, with four 

 little prominences on the front of the head-case, and the terminal 

 segments flattened on the ventral surface. The larva attains its 

 full growth about the middle of September, and undergoes its 

 transformation in a cell just beneath the surface. 



Food-plants. The leaves of the black walnut and the hickory. 



Massachusetts; New York; Pennsylvania; Georgia. 



CLEMENS. 



DAREMMA WALKER. 



Body rather slender. Proboscis short, distinct. Antennae se- 

 taceous, serrated, a little longer than the thorax. Abdomen taper- 

 ing, full thrice the length of the thorax. Legs rather short and 



