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tail, and inclosed in a thin silken cocoon in moss. I have now seen, in all, 

 about fifteen specimens of C. jluviata and six of C. gemmaria, and find that 

 the absence in each of what were considered the distinctive markings of the 

 other is not constant. The subapical blotch of C. jluviata may be traced more 

 or less distinctly (sometimes quite distinctly) in C. gemmaria, while some 

 specimens of C. jluviata have the central spot placed in the light ring; only 

 the dark ground of C. gemmaria makes this ring shine forth much more 

 brightly, just as a negro's sable skin enhances the whiteness of his eyes. One 

 of my bred specimens, having given me the slip over the edge of the table, 

 was detected in a dark corner of the room by the white spots on the fore 

 wings. As to the other markings, they are, line for line, precisely similar ; 

 so that the ground-color alone remains to make the sexes look unlike, and per- 

 haps further breeding may sometimes upset this.' " 



Plemyria multiferata Packard. Plate 8, fig. 22. 



Camptogram nia multiferata Walk., List Lep. Hot. Br. Mus., xxvi, 1715, 1862. 



5 <? . — Body and wings reddish-brown, with a slight purplish tinge. Fore 

 wings with the costa fuller, more sinuate than in P. Jluviata, crossed by about 

 fifteen parallel lines at a regular distance apart; the lines are firm, nob" very sin- 

 uate, with reddish-brown bands between them. A band just beyond the middle 

 of the wing is somewhat irregular, broken transversely into two or three 

 pieces, and is wider on the costa than elsewhere. A submarginal white band 

 is much more sinuate than the others, making a large, rather deep, subapical 

 flexure. This line is double. Another whitish line, between it and the edge 

 of the wing, ends firmly on the apex, and posteriorly ends just before the 

 inner angle of the wing. On the hind wings, which are rather paler than the 

 anterior pair, and are a little less sinuate on the outer edge than in P. jluviata, 

 there are about five dark lines, the inner three of which fade out before reach- 

 ing the middle of the wing. A small discal dot, situated far within the middle 

 of the wing, as in P. jluviata. Beneath reddish-brown, with whitish blotches 

 and lines, effaced behind the costal region and toward the base of the wing. 

 Costal region checkered and marked with reddish-brown and white. A reg- 

 ularly and deeply scalloped submarginal line; a distinct, oblique, apical, white 

 line Hind wings colored much as above. 



Length of body, $ , 0.40; of fore wings, $ , 0.50-0 54; expanse of wings, 

 0.95-1.10 inches. 

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