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Larva. — "Caterpillar of a yellowish-green, with the sides washed with 

 reddish, and the head of this last color. It lives on several trees, as the elm, 

 oak, 'cournouitter etc' The chrysalis is blackish, with the wing-covers 

 tinted with rose-flesh color." — Guene'e, description of Abbot's drawing. 



Paraphia subatomaria Guene'e. Plate 11, fig. 8. 



Paraphia subatomaria Guen., Phal., i, '272, 1857. 



Paraphia nubecularia Guen., Phal., i, 272, 1857. 



Paraphia mamitrraria Guen., Phal., i, 273, 1857. 



Paraphia subatomaria Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxi, 424, 1800. 



Paraphia nubecularia Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxi, 424, 1860. 



Paraphia mamitrraria Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxi, 424, 1860. 



Paraphia piniata Pack., New and Little Known Insects, 14, 1870. 



7 <$ and 2 9. — Wings somewhat pointed toward the apex, distinctly 

 serrate, and angulated in the middle, especially on the hind wings. Body 

 and wings whitish-ash, speckled with dark-brown and ochreous scales. 

 Fore wings with three lines, the inner much curved, and sometimes more or 

 less dislocated on the costa, making it sinuous ; median band nearly straight, 

 either faint when the discal dot is conspicuous or the line heavy, more or 

 less diffuse and expanded on the veins; outer line regularly sinuate, sub- 

 dentate, a diffuse ochreous patch beyond in the middle of the wing; some- 

 times the line is shaded with dark externally and the ochreous patch is 

 obscured; a dusky diffuse patch in the extradiscal space, and another near 

 the anal angle of the wing; just within the extradiscal dark patch from one 

 to three rounded white patches, one especially well marked. Fringe check- 

 ered with white and dark. Hind wings as in anterior pair, with two lines, 

 the inner diffuse, nearly straight, the outer line dentate, curved below the 

 costa (sometimes the costal portion of the line wanting) ; beyond, as in the 

 fore wings; beneath, whitish, with few speckles, rarely slightly ochreous; 

 discal dots distinct ; an outer, common, sinuate line, consisting often of more 

 or less disconnected dots; speckles thicker nearer the base of the wing; 

 the inner line sometimes present, then heavy, diffuse, and both lines well 

 marked by triangular costal spots. Female either pale whitish or witli a 

 decided ochreous tinge ; the two inner lines forming broad shades, especially 

 the middle, which in one case is decidedly sinuate; the three white spots 

 distinct, and the wings rather densely speckled with brown ; beneath, 

 whitish, or with a slight ochreous tinge, the inner shade present on both 

 wings, while the outer line, common to both wings, consists of a row of dots. 

 53 p H 



