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M. Gucnee tells me that his B. mofharm'is from Australia, not North 

 America. 



I can find no character of importance in M. GueneVs description to 

 separate his B. defectaria from humaria and intraria. One of my specimens 

 oi humaria has a faint dusk)' "bande subterminale", and the variations in size 

 are quite marked in this species, though less so than in B. larvaria. 

 Walker's description of B. larvaria applies in the main to this species, 

 except that the expression "under side (of fore wings) with an elongated 

 blackish spot" is scared}' applicable, though this may refer to the faint, 

 dusky shade noticed in one of my specimens; at all events, it is not the 

 B. larvaria of Guentie. 



In a specimen from Texas, the discal ringlet of the hind wing touches 

 the outer line, which is much more angulated than usual. 



Larva and pupa. — Body rather thick, smooth, not humped ; reddish- 

 brown above and straw-yellow beneath ; head yellowish, spotted with brown. 

 Pupa (pi. 13, fig. 15a) of the usual conical form, reddish-brown. Food- 

 plant, an Acacia-\\ke genus. — (Described from Abbot's MS. drawing.) 



Fig. 21, of plate 13, represents a caterpillar drawn by Abbot. On the 

 same plate is a moth closely allied to C. humaria. It is probably the larva 

 of some Ennomonine genus. The body is cylindrical, ramitbrm ; head 

 rather small, with a fungus-like dorsal hump just before the middle of the 

 body and a smaller terminal one. Head, humps, feet, and anal segment 

 reddish. Body grass-green, with a transverse, pale, dorsal baud on each 

 segment. Pupa slender, umber-brown. Food-plant Rhexia mariana. 



Cymatophora lvrvaria Guenee. Plate 11, fig. 21. 



Boarmia larvaria Gueu.!!!, Phal., i, 247, 1857. 



Boarmia humaria Walk. ! ! !, List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxi, 342, 1860. 

 Boarmia defectaria Walk. ! ! !, List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxi, 343, 18G0. 

 Not Boarmia larraria Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxi, 344, 1800. 



8 c? and 2 9. — Fore wings still more produced toward the apex than in 

 humaria. Male antennas pectinated as in that species. Tip of abdomen 

 projecting a little beyond the hind wings. Pale whitish-ash; head whitish; 

 a few black scales between the antennae. A brown line on the prothorax. 

 Fore wings with the inner line broad on the costa, angulated below, and 

 thence going obliquely, not much curved, to the inner edge, bordered within 

 witli a pale-brown shade. Discal ringlet broader than in B. humaria and 



