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land wings violet-black, with a transparent colorless spot at base; 

 body tawny orange; antenna and head black, the latter spotted 

 with orange; a broad stripe on the shoulder-covers, a transverse 

 spot on the thorax behind, and the incisures of the abdomen black ; 

 legs violet-black ; coxa3 beneath, and a spot on the thighs, orange 

 colored. 



Southern States. Expands an inch and three-quarters. 



HARRIS. 



2. G. (Cosmosoma Hiibn.) omphale IJiilm. (according to Say). SEge- 



ria omphale Say. Figured in Say Amer. Ent. VII, pi. 19. 



Scarlet? wings transparent, veined and bordered with black; 

 the first pair with a small black subcostal spot, and the black bor- 

 der very much widened at tip; head azure blue; antennce black, 

 with the tips white; two terminal joints of the palpi, and aline 

 on each shoulder-cover black ; four azure-blue dots in a transverse 

 row on the fore part of the thorax ; last four segments of the 

 abdomen black, with four azure blue spots on each side, and a 

 dorsal black line extending from the middle of the second segment, 

 including in it seven azure blue spots; belly and outside of the 

 second pair of tibia? black. 



Florida. Expands an inch and a half or more. 



For a specimen of this beautiful insect I am indebted to Mr. 

 Doubleday. It cannot belong to the genus ^Egeria, to which it 

 was referred by Mr. Say, in his American Entomology, where it 

 is figured. 



United States. 



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3. G. (Lycomorpha Harris) pholus Fab. 



Blue-black or deep indigo blue; wings at base and shoulder- 

 covers orange. Expands fourteen or fifteen lines. Larva pale 

 green with yellowish spots running into the green; head black, 

 covered with a few short whitish hairs ; body sparingly clothed 

 with rather long hairs, which are white at the sides and black on 

 the back, the hairs arising singly from minute tubercles, those on 

 the third segment the longest, and with the others before them 

 directed forwards. It eats the lichens on stone heaps in shady 

 places, and undergoes its transformation in a thin silky cocoon. 



United States. 



HARRIS. 



