532 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



tomentum. Labial palpi blackish, beneath yellowish. Wings with a discal 

 black dot or clots, sometimes wanting ; under surface of hind pair always with 

 a black discal spot. Abdomen luteous above, with three rows of black spots. 

 The anterior coxa? and femora luteous, the femora with a black spot. 



*S. congrua, Walker, 669. White. Tarsi with black bands. Fore 

 coxae and fore femora luteous, with black spots on the inner side ; fore tibia? 

 striped with black on the inner side. 



Male. Head and fore part of the thorax with a slight testaceous tinge. 

 Fore wings with four oblique, very imperfect and irregular bands, composed 

 of pale brown dots. Body 6-7 lines ; wings 16-20 lines. 



Georgia. 



* S. Jussiaeae. Arctia Jussicece, Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba. S. Jussiace, 

 Walker, 670. Wings white. The fore wings above and the hind wings be- 

 neath with a black point in the middle. Anterior femora and the abdomen 

 at the sides fulvous. Abdomen with quintuple series of points. 



Cuba. Larva feeds on the leaves of Jussicea erecta. 



Euch^tes, Harris. 



Fore wings rather broad, trigonate. The subcostal vein gives rise to two 

 marginal nervules from the posterior part of the disk, and between the second 

 marginal nervule and the apical is formed a short, costal cell. The post-apical 

 nervule arises midway between the costal cell and apical nervulet. The discal 

 vein which is angulated and the subcosto inferior are given off from a com- 

 mon point. The median vein is 4-branched, the posterior nervule moderately 

 remote from the penultimate. Hind wings as broad as the fore wings, with 

 the neuration common to the family. 



Head moderate, depressed ; with ocelli. Face inclined. Eyes small. An- 

 tenna? slightly pectinated in the tf, serrated in the 9 Labial palpi rather 

 stout and ascending on the face nearly to the base of the antennae ; basal and 

 middle joints nearly equal ; terminal short, three or four times less long than 

 the middle joint. Tongue rather longer than the anterior coxae. 



Body stout. Thorax rather woolly. Breast woolly ; abdomen smooth. Legs 

 with hairy femora ; anterior tibiae nearly as long as anterior tarsi, internal 

 spur concealed and half as long as the tibia? ; hind tibiae with two pairs of 

 spurs. 



E. Egle, Drury. Spilosoma Egle, West., Walk. Bluish cinereous. Oc- 

 ciput with a narrow luteous line. Abdomen whitish beneath, above dark yel- 

 low, with a dorsal and lateral row of black spots. Fore coxa? woolly and 

 touched at the sides with luteous. 



Mass., Samuel H. Scudder, Esq. New York, Mr. Akhurst. 



The following insect differs from the Massachusetts specimen very curious- 

 ly, and I am at a loss how to reconcile the differences between them. The 

 fore wings correspond more nearly to Dr. Harris' description than the speci- 

 men from his own State, but the palpi do not agree witli those of the species 

 he described. The larva of E. E g 1 e is common enough in this vicinity, but 

 I have never met with the perfect insect, nor have I been successful in various 

 attempts to carry it through its transformations. 



In the Texan specimens the costal cell of the fore wings is longer and nar- 

 rower than in the foregoing, and sometimes gives rise to the post-apical ner- 

 vule. The head is perfectly smooth ; the palpi are porrected, short; scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the ciypeus ; rather hairy towards the base beneath ; the basal and 

 middle joints nearly equal ; terminal joint globular, and one-half as long as 

 the middle. 



The body is rather slender. Thorax and breast perfectly smooth. Legs 

 smooth; anterior tibia? scarcely longer than the basal joint of the anterior 



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