.'565 



This is our more common species of the genus, and is characterized by 

 the tawny-brown hue, tinged with carneous, by the two common lines of 

 small, black, venular dots, the dark discal ringlets centered with white, and 

 by the pale under side tinted with flesh-red. 



Larva and pupa. — Guene'e describes the caterpillar as of a clear green 

 with yellowish incisions; the head, the anal region, and the feet reddish- 

 yellow. On the fifth segment are two small, black, dorsal points. The chry- 

 salis (figured by Guene'e) is deep green, with a lateral white line edged with 

 faint, rose on the wings and anal extremity. 



Desiderata. 



Ephyra culicaria Guen., Phal., i, 407, 1857. — "18 mm . Ailes d'un gris- 

 testace clair, avec la frange rose et deux series de petits points noirs. Un 

 petit anneau cellulaire au centre, plus blanc que le fond, et quelquefois une 

 ombre mediane rougeatre ; le tout ordinairement tres-fin et peu saillant. 

 Dessous sans dessin ; les supeYieures plus rosees, les inferieures plus 

 blanches Vertex concolore, avec le front d'un brun-cannelle clair. 



"G^orgie ame'ricaine. Trois <$ . Coll. Lefebvre et Gn. 



"Les ailes inferieures de cette petite espece n'ont pas Tangle anal 

 prolong^ com me la Rudimentaria ; le bord terminal est seulement un peu 

 coude et la cote droite. Elle ressemble, en petit, ;\ nos especes euro- 

 pdennes." 



Arrlwstia lumenaria Iliibn.-Geyer, Zutriige, 35, fig. 757, 758, 1832. — 

 This species, or one allied to it, has been raised by Abbot, and the following 

 description has been drawn up from his colored MS. drawing: Body long 

 and slender; head narrower than the body. Head, feet, and abdomen testa- 

 ceous. Body grass-green, with two conspicuous, thin, dorsal, black spots just 

 in front of the middle. Pupa attached to the stem of the plant, as in Ephyra. 

 It is green, purplish along the hind edge of the wing and at the'end of the 

 body. Food-plant, Psoralea melitofoides. Plate 13, fig. 22, 22a. 



EUEPHYKA Packard. Plate 4, fig. 5. 



Euephyra Pack., Fifth Ann. Rep. Teab. Acad. Sc, 73, 1873. 



This genus is allied to Ephyra, notwithstanding that it has two pairs of well- 

 developed spurs on the hind tibiae, though M. Guene'e regards one pair ol poste- 



