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I'd 4 

 Euaspilates spinatakia Packard. 



Euaspilates spinataria Pack., sixth Eep. Peab. Acad. Sc., 1">, 1874. 



1 $. — Body ;m<l %\ inirs pure white. Fore wings with 

 lour pale clay-brown, oblique lines, the basal very oblique 

 jiikI extending along the inner side of the subcostal vein a 

 Euatpiiates spinatana. third of the length of the wing. The second line half- 

 way between the basal and the third, and half as wide as third, embracing 

 the dark, discal, linear spot. Fourth line marginal; fringe white on both 

 wings. Hind wings pure white, with a small, dark, discal dot, and a narrow 

 pale-brown line along the edge. Beneath as above, but with the lines much 

 fainter, and with four distinct discal dots. 



Length of body, 0.40: of fore wing, (*.f>4; expanse of wings, 1.1.') 

 inches. 



Colorado Territory (A. R. Grote, Mus. Peab. Acad. Sc.). 

 This very interesting form may be recognized by the full bulging head, 

 the short palpi and stout spines on the base of the tore tibiae, and by the 

 white wings, with the four peculiar. paled)rown, broad bands on the anterior 



pair. 



ASPILATES Treitschke. Plate 2, fig. 3. 



Eraslria Hiibn., Samml. Exot. Schm., ism;. 

 Sjirrhodia Hiibn., Zntr., 371,372; Verz., 300, 1818. 

 Perconia Hiibn. (in part), Verz., 296, 1818. 

 Catopyrrha Hiibu., Verz., 330, 1818. 

 •• Eusarca Jliii.n.. :>, v, 40, 1822." 

 ' Aspilates Traits., Scbm. Eur., vi (i), 126, 1827. 



Stepb., 111., Eii, 207, 1831. 

 •• Paralexia Sodoff., Bull. S. I. Mosc, 17, is:;:." 

 Aspilates Boisd. (iu part), Gen. Intl., 187, ls.40. 



H.-Sch., Schro. Eur., iii,;r.;, 1S47. 



Steph., Cat. Brit.Lep., 181, 1850. 



Lederer, Verh. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wien, 238, L853. 



Guen., Plial., ii, 180,1857, 

 Catopyrrha Wall;., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxiv, 10(14, 1862. 

 Aspilates Walk., List Lep. Br. Mus., xxiv, 1065, 1862. 



In this genus, the male antennae are usually heavily pectinated, the head 

 square in front, and the palpi very long and acute, porrect. The fore wings 

 are short and broad, triangular; costa straight, or curved; apex rectangular, 

 not falcate. Hind wings rounded at the apex, outer edge full and rounded. 

 Venation: three short subcostal venules; one subcostal cell. Hind legs: 

 male hind tibia' somewhat swollen; tarsi two-lhirds as long as the tibiae. 

 Abdomen rather long and slender. Coloration: usually pale, with from one 



