158 MEMOIRS NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. vol. xh, 



AGAPEMA Neumoegen and Dyar. 



Aga-pema Neumoegen and Dyar, Joum. N. Y. Ent. Soc, II (1894), p. 125. 



Dr. Packard left no manuscript on this genus, but so far as he considered it in general 

 discussions, he did not separate it from Saturnia.] 



AGAPEMA GALBINA (Clemens). 



Plate XIV, fig. 6; XLII, fig. 7; LIX, figs. 3, 4. 



[Saturnia galbinn Clemens, Contributions to American Lepidopterology, No. 4. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1860 (May), p. 156. 



Clemens described the species as follows: 



Antennse luteous. Body and head rather dark brown. Fore wings yellowish-brown, with a rather faint whitish, 

 angulated band at the base. On the discal nervure is a round, black ocellus having a central subvitreous streak, 

 containing a yellow circle, and toward the base of the wing a slender blue crescent. A whitish band crosses the 

 middle of the nervules, with a faint wavy one between it and the hind margin. In the apical interspace is a black 

 spot, with a crimson streak to the tip of the wing. The marginal portion of the wing is whitish, and is tinged on the 

 terminal edge with pale yellowish brown. Hind wings similar in color and ornamentation to the fore wings, the ocelli 

 being somewhat smaller. On the under surface, which is similar in hue to the upper, the faint wavy bands of the fore 

 and hind wings are very distinct. 



Texas. From the Smithsonian Institution. Capt. Pope's collection.] 



[The egg, young larva, cocoon, and pupa of A. galbina were described by Henry Edwards 

 in Entomologica Americana, IV (1888) p. 61. The newly hatched larva is black, sparsely 

 covered with long fawn-colored hairs; head very large, glossy.] 



AGAPEMA ANONA (Ottolengui). 

 Plate LIX, figs. 5, 6; LXIII, figs. 9-13. 

 [Saturnia anona Ottolengui, Entom. News., XIV, p. 314.] 



[ <J . Stalk and branches of antennse olive green with dark smoky brown feathers ; head 

 and legs clothed with rough black-brown hairs; thorax with long, pink-brown hairs overlying 

 shorter blackish hairs; abdomen dorsally clothed with short blackish hairs; mingled laterally 

 and ventrally with coarse pink-brown ones and with anal tuft composed of hairs of a similar 

 color. Primaries blackish (in faded specimens this color turns to deep brown); a white, 

 strongly outcurved antemedial band proceeding from costa near base of wing to the inception 

 of vein Cu 2 , thence to inner margin at about one-fourth from base; a slightly waved postmedial 

 white band, from costa before apex to just beyond middle of inner margin; this band may 

 pass entirely beyond the ocellus, or it may touch its outer margin, in which latter case it tends 

 to broaden and flow around the apical portion of the ocellus; in the median space between the 

 two white bands the cubital vein and its branches are more or less broadly outlined in white, 

 in cases where the postmedian band does not touch the ocellus the median branches between 

 ocellus and band are also tinged with white, and at times the anal vein is narrowly outlined 

 with the same color; at the end of the cell the interspace between median and cubital veins 

 is occupied by a large black ocellus, with orange-yellow annulus, the central portion more or 

 less filled with white scaling, and with a blue crescent-shaped line outside the annulus toward 

 base of wing; beyond the postmedian line at apex of wing a more or less distinct black, rather 

 diffuse patch, from the lower portion of which a curved crimson line extends to apex of wing; 

 a very faint waved white subterminal line; terminally the dark area of wing is very distinctly 

 defined by a broad white band forming scallops between the veins on its inner margin; the 

 outer half of this band is heavily shaded with olive brown, the two areas being sharply and 

 evenly defined. Secondaries with the basal two-thirds white, sprinkled broadly and rather 

 heavily along costa with blackish; from this blackish area an indistinct outcurved black sub- 

 basal band extends downwards as far as the inception of vein Cu 2 ; a faint black waved post- 

 median line, shortly beyond which the subterminal area of wing becomes blackish with a broad 

 terminal border exactly as on primaries ; a faint white waved subterminal line may at times be 

 traced through the dark subterminal area; ocellus as on primaries, slightly smaller. Beneath, 

 prim.irips largely as above; subterminal white line more distinct; other markings fainter and 



