208 



Guen«5e doubts whether Treitschke or Duponchel rightfully regarded this 

 as a South-European species, and by Staudinger (Catalog) it is not mentioned 

 as a European moth. 



AsPILATES DIssiMii AKIA (iuenee. 



Eraatria dtirimilaria Hubn., Samml. Exot. Scbm., bd. 1. 1906. • 



Catopyrrha distimilaria Hubn., Vn/., 301, 1818. 



Aspilates diseimilaria Gupd., Pbul., ii, 182, l^r>7. 



Catopyrrha dissimilaria Walk;, Lep. Het. Br. Mns., xxiv, 1064, 1862. 



5 $ and 2 9. — Head pale brown in front. Palpi yellow. Body and 

 wings bright citron-yellow, without any markings above, but usually with 

 three broad, dusky, slightly-curved bands on the fore wing, one basal band 

 more curved than the others; two or three dark blotches just beyond but 

 adjoining the outer line on the posterior half of the wing; both wings slightly 

 speckled with fine dark scales. Hind wing with two faint, straight shades 

 quite near together and parallel. Fringe pink yellowish at inner angle and 

 along the inner edge. 



Two females differ in the strigae and specks and bands on the fore wings 

 (none on hind wings) being dull pink. Male antennae granite-gray, in the 

 female white, with scattered, dark specks above. Beneath, bright ochreous- 

 yellow; both wings crossed by two nearly parallel, broad, pink shades, with 

 fine, scattered, dull-pink scales over the wing. Sometimes the inner band 

 beneath is nearly obsolete, leaving large pink discal dots, and whole under 

 surface is suffused with pink, and the body is pinkish on the sides. 



Length of body, 3, 0.55-0 60, 9, 0.50; fore wing, <? , 0.70-0.75, 9, 

 0.72; expanse of wings, 1.35—1.50 inches. 



Albany, New York, dune 29; West Virginia, 3105, July 7 (Lintner); 

 Illinois (Clemens); Georgia (Le Conte, Grote, Harris Coll., Mas. Bost. Soc. 

 Xat. Hist.); Texas. May 3-23 (Belfrage, Mus. Peab. Acad. Sc); Maryland 

 (Stratlon, Mus. Comp Zool.); Long Island, N. Y., July 2 (Graef). 



This species varies greatly, bui may always be recognized by the bright- 

 yellow color of the wings and the pink fringe, and dusky band above (when 

 present), and beneath by the broad pink lines and suffused pink tint. 



Hiibner represents the male above with but one (outer) common band 

 and a costal spot, the rudiment of the middle line. In the female, the three 

 bands are present on the fore wings and one on the hind wings; the inner 

 band only extending from the costa to the median vein. The under side of 



