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of the lateral yellow stripe and the bands between the segments. 

 It has pearly tubercles tinted with purple. Head and feet brown. 

 Posterior end bordered by a brown mark similar to the letter V. 



It forms its cocoon similar to A. lima. 



United States. 



5. A. paphia Fab. Figured in Petiv. Gazoph. tab. 29. 



Nearly the size of A. cecropia. Primaries with the extremity sub- 

 falcate; ferruginous yellow, with the anterior edge cinereous. A 

 yellowish white band, an ocellated spot, white, of which the middle 

 is gray. The iris brown and the pupil transparent; edge ferrugi- 

 nous, on which there is a black violet ray. A little before the 

 extremity there is an indistinct blackish marginal spot. Seconda- 

 ries yellow, rounded, an ocellated spot similar to the preceding 

 placed in the middle; paler towards the posterior edge, with indis- 

 tinct undulated rays. Under side ferruginous yellow, with the 

 same spots as on the upper side. The ocellated spots of the male 

 are oblong; those of the female round. 



North America. 



GODT. 



6. A. angulifera Walker. C. B. M. 1224. 



Male and female. Wings with a blackish zigzag band, which 

 extends from much beyond the middle of the costa of the fore 

 wings to three-fourths of the breadth of the interior border of the 

 hind wings. This band is diffuse on the inner side, and is bordered 

 with a diffuse whitish line on the outer side. Discal spot whitish, 

 forked, with a black border; larger in the fore wings than in the 

 hind wings. Exterior border pale testaceous, curved, outwardly 

 black bordered band between the base and the discal spot, and 

 with a black subapical ocellus, which is bordered with white on 

 the inner side. Hind wings with a row of elongated spots near 

 the exterior border. 



Male. Brown. Antenna very deeply pectinated ; branches in 

 pairs, which are of equal length. Abdomen extending to much 

 less than half the breadth of the hind wings. 



Female. Ferruginous or reddish. Antennas moderately pecti- 

 nated; the alternate branches black and rather longer than the 

 others. Abdomen extending to much more than half the breadth 



