296 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



black. Fore wings with a broad, white median band ; cilia at the 

 tip white. Hind wings with white cilia. 



Mexico. 



WALKEK. 



FAM. Y. NYCTEMERIDAE. 



Some of the genera, like a few of the Pericopidae and of 

 the Chalcosiidae, have much resemblance to the Rhopalocera. 

 The body is slender and the wings ample, and they have 

 likewise a general resemblance to some of the Geometrites. 



CARALISA WALKER. 



Male. Body hardly stout. Tongue elongate. Palpi porrect, 

 extending far beyond the head ; third joint elongated, acuminated, 







much more than half the length of the second. Antennas mode- 

 rately pectinated, much more than half the length of the bftdy. 

 Abdomen extending as far as the hind wings. Legs slender ; 

 hind tibiae with four rather short spurs. Wings moderately broad. 

 Fore- wings straight in front, rounded at the tips, very oblique 

 along the exterior border; first, second and third inferior veins 

 nearly contiguous ; fourth remote. 



1. C. editha Walker, 1661. 



Male. Deep blue. Head crimson beneath, white about the eyes. 

 Palpi crimson at the base. Disk of the abdomen with a short 

 broad crimson stripe, which tapers in front ; under side crimson. 

 Wings with broad black borders ; cilia white. Length of the 

 body 6 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



West Indies. 



WALKER. 



EUDTJLE HUBNER. 



Body slender, nearly linear and cylindrical, rather long. Palpi 

 porrect, rather shorter than the head; third joint conical, not more 

 than one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennas of the male 



