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tarsi fuscous ; anterior wings subcinereous, obscurely clouded with 

 fuscous, veins interruptedly white. Female. 



Length of body 35 46 millim. Alar expanse 64 80 millira. 



Halt. Savannah; South Carolina (Zimmerman). 



3. Ch. californicus ! 



Chauliodes californicus Walker ! Catal. 199, 4. Hermes dubitatus Walker! 

 Catal. 204, 6. Female. 



Brownish-black; mouth rufous; antennae serrate ? (almost alto- 

 gether mutilated); occiput with rufous, somewhat shining, flat 

 streaks and spots ; prothorax each side posteriorly with a flexuous, 

 obsolete, rufous stripe, elevated and more obsolete in the middle ; 

 feet black ; anterior wings cinereous, the longitudinal veins trans- 

 versely liueated with fuscous ; a basal, brownish-black streak, and 

 sometimes apical ones upon the costal margin of all the wings. 



Length to tip of wings 45 60 millim. Alar expanse 70 100 

 millim. 



Hob. California (Hartweg). 



4. Ch. virginiensis. 



Chauliodes virginiensis Westw. ed. Drury, I, 105 ; tab. xlvi, fig. 3. 

 Hemerobius virginiensis Drury, 111. II, App. Hemerobius pectinicornis 

 Palisot Beauv. Ins. Afr. et Amer. Neuropt. tab. i, fig. 2 ; Walk. 

 Catal. 200, 6. 



Head and thorax black, pointed with fulvous ; wings broad, 

 hyaline, the veins pointed with black. (From the description of 

 Walker.) 



Alar expanse 72 millim. 



Hob. Virginia. 



Unknown tome; is it a distinct species? I cannot examine 

 the authority reported by Mr. Westwood : I saw the identical 

 specimen figured by Palisot Beauv., in the collection of De Selys 

 Longchamps ; it differs a little from Ch. pectinicornis Linn. ; but 

 I neglected to make a more complete description of it. 



5. Ch. serricornis ! 



Chauliodes serricornis Say, Long's Exped. II, Append. 307. 



Fuscous ; head rufous, the disk fuscous, the occiput with flat 

 rufous streaks ; antenna? black, serrate ; prothorax each side with 

 an impressed, rufous spot ; feet luteo-fuscous, the tarsi obscurer ; 



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