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"Head medium-sized, rather flat in front, slightly bilobed, and of a pale 

 green color, with a few very fine hairs, invisible without a magnifying glass, 

 scattered over its surface; mandibles tipped with black. 



"Bod}' above bluish green, with thickly set longitudinal stripes of whitish 

 and yellowish. A double whitish dorsal line, with bordering lines of yellow- 

 ish-white, neither of which arc unbroken, but are formed of a succession of 

 short lines and dots. Below these, on each side, are two or three imperfect 

 white lines, made up of short streaks, and much fainter than those bordering 

 the dorsal line; spaces between the segments yellowish. The skin all over 

 the body is much wrinkled and folded. 



"The under surface is green, with a tinge of yellowish between the seg- 

 ments; feet yellowish-green, prolegs green faintly tipped with brown, 



"The moth is of a pure white color, with three or four reddish-brown 

 spots on the costal margin of each of the fore wings, and with a taint curved 

 line of the same, crossing them a little beyond the middle; it expands one 

 inch." — W. Saunders, Canadian Entomologist, iii, 225. 



Pupa. — Of the usual conical-oval shape. The wings reach to the hinder 

 edge of the fourth abdominal segment. The end of the abdomen terminates, 

 as usual, in a stout spine. Length, 50 inch. 



Desideratum. 



Stegania? quadrinotata Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxiv, page 1759, 

 1862. — Male. Pale cinerous-testaceous. Palpi porrect, acute, not extending 

 beyond the head; antenna? sctulose. Abdomen not extending beyond the 

 hind wings. Hind tibia? not incrassated; spurs rather long* Wings mode- 

 rately broad: fore wings slightly acute, with three brown costal spots; 

 exterior border convex, rather oblique. 



Length of the body, 4 lines; of the wings, 12 lines. 



New York (in Mr. Saunders's collection). 



Subfamily G ONI ACID ALIN.E. 



Head short and very broad. Palpi slender. Antenna 1 simple. Fore 

 wings entire or variously notched ; hind wings trideutate or entire. Venation : 

 from three to six subcostal veins. Independent veins co-originating with the 

 anterior discal venule. Hind tibia 1 swollen; tarsi two-thirds as long as tibia?. 



Of the larval ibrms of this remarkable group we as yet know nothing. 



