222 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



4. S. eglanterina Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 323. 



Size and form of Proserpina. Upper side of primaries yellowish- 

 white, slightly flesh color, powdered with a little blackish at the 

 base, with the upper edge and two transverse bands black ; the 

 one, near the base, uniting with a large longitudinal streak of the 

 same color ; the other, near the extremity, bent, but not sinuous. 

 Between these two bands there is a black rounded spot, or kind of 

 eye, marked with a small whitish crescent ; fringe widely black, 

 uniting with some sagittate streaks of the same color, situated on 

 the nerves. Secondaries of a beautiful ochry yellow, marked in 

 the middle with a large black point, in place of an eye ; beyond 

 the middle a black curved band, in a line with that of the primaries. 

 Fringe black, forming some sagittate spots of the same color. 

 Head and prothorax ferruginous; thorax mingled with yellow. 

 Abdomen of the same color as the secondaries, paler below and a 

 little annulated with black. Under side like the upper. Antennae 

 black, pennated in the male, a little ciliate in the female. 



California. 



BOISD. 



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5. S. pica Walker. C. B. M. 1318. 



Male. White. Head, thorax in front and behind, pectus and 

 femora luteous. Antennae, tibiae and tarsi brown. Abdomen above 

 luteous, with a whitish spot and a brown band on each segment. 

 Wings with black borders, with two curved black bands, with a 

 large curved discal black spot, and with marginal black streaks. 

 Fore wings with a black basal streak. Length of the body 11 

 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



United States. 



WALKER. 



6. ? megaera Fab. Ent. Syst. Ill, 1. Walker, C. B. M. pt. v, 1378. 

 Primaries bluish spotted with white ; secondaries white at the 



apex, blue with yellow waves. 



North America. 



WALKER. 



7. S. galbina Clemens. Proc. A. N. S. for I860, p. 156. 



Antennas luteous. Body and head rather dark brown. Fore 

 wings yellowish-brown, with a rather faint, whitish, angulated band 

 at the base. On the discal nervure is a round, black ocellus having 



