54-8 



In one male from Albany; N. Y. (Lintner), the front is dull ochreous, 

 this shade running up the orbits. 



East Falmouth, Mass., June 4 (W. C. Pish); West Farms, N.Y. (Angus). 



Ii differs from T. crocattata by the cream-wbite wings, the dull-ochreous 

 line on the fore wing, while the apex of the fore wing is not so pointed as in 

 T. crocaUata or aspilates, and there is no line reproduced beneath, mid no 

 traces of a discal dot beneath. The hind wings are much more obtuse than 

 in T. crocaUata. 



Maine (Packard); Albany, N. Y. (Lintner); Philadelphia, Pa. (Grote) ; 

 Iowa (Parker); Saint Louis, Mo. (Riley). 



Teteagis crocallata Guenee. Plate 12, fig. 40. 



Tetrads crocaUata Gum., l'h;il., i, 141, 1857. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xx, 172, 18G0. 

 Tetrads aspilaia Gnen., Phal., i, Ml, 1857. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xx, 173, I860. 



6" c? and G 9 . — Body and wings uniformly bright ocher-yellow ; wings 

 slightly speckled with brown. A broad, oblique, coffee-brown band on the 

 fore wings, extending from just beyond the middle of the outer edge to the 

 apex ; discal dot not large, but prominent on both wings. On the hind wings, 

 a single straight lrnc, not reaching the costa (in three out of twelve speci- 

 mens the line is entirely wanting on the hind wings). Beneath as above; 

 the line most distinct toward the apex; the female paler and with a narrower 

 line on the fore wings than the male. 



Length of body, i\ 0.65, 9, 0.60; of fore wing, i, 0.58-0.83, 9, 0.80- 

 0.85; expanse of wings, 1.75 inches. 



Montreal, Canada (Lyman); Brunswick, Me., June (Packard) ; Massa- 

 chusetts (Sanborn and Emerton); West- Farms, N. Y. (Angus); Albany, N. Y. 

 (Lintner and Meske) ; Philadelphia, Pa. (Grote); Lawrence, Kans. (Snow). 



It varies in the presence or absence of the line on the hind wings; in 

 three out of nine specimens, the band on the fore wing is very broad, three 

 times as much so as in others. In a female from Iowa (Parker), with the 

 line present on both wings, the wings are speckled much more than usual. 

 I found on examination of Guenee' s types that his T. aspilaia is a pale variety 

 of his crocallata, without the band on the hind wings. 



Larva. — "From two females confined in a box, 1 obtained on June 18th— 

 20th over three hundred eggs. These are subovate, slightly flattened at the 



