38G 



/.. Species green : 



Larger than the succeeding species ; hind wings bent ; three conspicuous 



abdominal spots A. mimosaria. 



Like A. rubrifrontaria, bat with the lines broader than usual 1. rubromarginaria. 



A line, interrupt d, reddish line :il base of fringe 1- rubrolinearia. 



The two lines on fore u iuj;s very wide apart; fringe white 1. latiaria. 



The two lines approximate; fringe green -I. approximaria. 



Aplodes klbrii'kontalia Packard. Plate 10, fig. 87. 



Bacfteospila rubrifrontaria Pack., Filth Rep. Peah. Acad. Sc, ?(i, 1-7;!. 



2 <? and ."> 9. — Front pale ochreous-brown; front edge and clypeus pale, 

 concolorous, slightly roseate at tip; vertex white between the antenna', mar- 

 gined behind with reddish. Antennae pale testaceous, whitish above. Wings 

 pea-green, as usual: costal edge of primaries whitish; an inner, slightly curved, 

 irregularly-undulating line; an outer, more distinct, straight line, a little waved 

 just before the costa, where it becomes obsolete; outer half of fringe rosa- 

 ceous: fringe rosy on tip of the fore wings. On the secondaries hut one line, 

 bent a good deal in the middle. Beneath, paler, the lines appearing faintly 

 through. Thorax green, a white (sometimes red) blister at base of abdomen; 

 on third and fourth abdominal rings a white spot, margined irregularly with 

 dull ochreous or entirely reddish; beyond white. Legs concolorous with 

 the front. 



Length of body, J, 0.40, 9, 0.40; of fore wing, J, 0.53, 9, 0.GO; 

 expanse of wings, 1.10-1. "25 inches. 



Brunswick, Me., June 0, in open fields near pine-woods (Packard); 

 Massachusetts (Sanborn): Chicago, 111. (Wescott) ; Victoria, Vancouver 

 Island, July (Crotch); Sierra Nevada (Crotch, Mus. Conip Zool.). 



The ochreous-brown front, legs, and palpi tipped with rosaceous, the 

 abdomen green at base, with the conspicuous blister, white in the male and 

 red in the female, and the two succeeding dull reddish spots, and the red 

 spot on the fringe at the apex of tin; fore wings, will distinguish this not 

 uncommon species. 



I am unable to defect any differences between the Pacific and Atlantic 

 coast individuals in the markings or colors. The female from Sierra Nevada 

 is slightly larger than the female from Chicago, the lore wing of the former 

 measuring 0.63 and that of the latter 0.(10 inch. In a specimen front Texas, 

 there are four discal spots; in other respects, it does not seem to differ from 

 northern specimens. 



