158 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OP 



Var. laticlavia? Imago, brownish-luteous, sometimes inclining to yel- 

 lowish. Fore wings with an oblique silvery band from the costa to the mid- 

 die of the inner margin, toothed on the submedian fold and shaded behind with 

 blackish-brown, with a blackish-brown line from the costal origin of the silvery 

 band to the hind margin beneath the middle. Hind wings dark brown, yellow- 

 ish at the base. 



Three sp. from Robert Kennicott, Illinois. 



Adoneta. 



The characteristics in wing structure are ; that the subcostal nervure is re- 

 mote from the anterior margin, and gives off two marginal branches from the 

 disk, one near the middle and one near the end, and then subdivides beyond 

 the disk into an apical and post apical branch. The disco-central nervule 

 arises above the middle of the discal nervure at an angle, whence the nervure 

 curves to the first branch of the median. In the hind wings the costal and 

 subcostal intersect at their bases. The latter is bifid beyond the disk ; the 

 disco-central is continued to the base of the wing, attenuated within the disk, 

 and the discal nervure is straight on the costal side of it, and very oblique on 

 the median side ; with their points of junction separated. Median thre** 

 branched. 



Body rather slender, not pilose. Head small ; eyes quite small. Antenna- 

 rather more than one half as long as the body. Labial palpi somewhat ex- 

 ceeding the front, rather slender, nearly cylindrical, squamose above and slight- 

 ly hirsute beneath ; third joint very small, the development being chiefly in 

 the second joint. Tongue none. Abdomen much shorter than the hind 

 wings. Fore legs rather slender, tibise moderately ciliated ; middle and hind 

 tibiae thickly and shortly ciliated, with two rather short apical spurs. Wings 

 very much deflexed in repose, almost enveloping the body. Male. Tin- 

 basal half of the antennae shortly pectinated. Female. Antennae simple. 



A. voluta. Reddish-brown, somewhat paler in the 9 tnan tne <$ 

 Fore wings with a dingy yellow streak along the base of the inner margin, 

 extended toward the disk above the middle of the wing and on this portion 

 are two or three blackish dots. On the hind portion of the disk is a short 

 black streak. In the tf there is another short black streak along the median 

 nervure and its last branch, with a curved row of three, black, submargina! 

 spots. The lower streak and the spots are as distinct in the 9 as in the ^J 1 . 

 In both sexes there is a subapical dingy yellow patch, lightly bordered behind 

 with whitish. Hind margin spotted with black. Hind wing pale reddish 



brown. 



Larva. Body semi-cylindrical, tapering posteriorly and rounded obtusely 

 in front. Nearly smooth, but with a subvascular row of small fleshy, minute- 

 ly spined papulae on each side of the vascular line, three of which placed an- 

 teriorly are separated and distinct, and three approximated on the last rings : 

 the intermediate ones are minute. The outline of the body above the ven- 

 tral surface, is furnished with a row of minute spined papulae. 



Bright green, with a broad dorsal yellow band containing a reddish purple 

 one which is constricted opposite the second and third pairs of anterior papu- 

 lae and dilated into an elliptical patch in the middle of the body. This is 

 almost separated from a smaller elliptical patch which is constricted opposite 

 the third pair of posterior papulae and ends in a small round patch. The an- 

 terior and posterior papulae are crimson and the intermediate ones green. Th(^ 

 superventral row of spined papul|e are green. 



In September, on the leaf of Apricot. Imago in March. 



Empbetia. 



In the anterior wings the subcostal nervure is moderately remote from the 

 external margin, sends off two marginal branches from the disk, and beyond 



[May- 



