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lengthily pectinated male antennae. The ves'citure in the typical 

 genus is dense and hairy, rather than scaly, and the legs are also 

 very densely clothed. The primaries have two free internal 

 veins; 4 and 5 are rather close together from the end of the me- 

 dian; 6 is from near the middle of the cross- vein; 7, 8 and 9 are 

 stalked, and from the same point with 10, at the end of the sub- 

 costal. A very distinct fold divides the median cell. The sec- 

 ondaries have two fairly distinct free, internal veins, and often a 

 distinct additional fold. Vein 4 is from the end of the median 

 and 5 is from the cross-vein, about as far from 4 as the latter is 

 from 3; 6 and 7 are from a long stalk at the end of the subcostal, 

 the costal arising out of the latter some little distance from base. 

 A distinct fold divides the median cell. 



The above description is drawn from a specimen of Parasa, and 

 applies in all essentials to Limacodes, Phobetron, fsa, Packardia, 

 and probably also to all the other genera referred to the family. 

 The characters are quite distinctive, and the family is as distinct 

 in its larval characteristics. Almost all collectors who have col- 

 lected caterpillars know the odd shaped, slug-like larvae of the 

 Limacodidae, and if they have handled them with any freedom 

 they have discovered in many of them very decided urticating 

 properties. Most of these larvae have no very distinct abdominal 

 or prolegs, using the whole of the ventral surface for purposes 

 of locomotion. They make a very dense, oval, or sometimes 

 nearly globular, parchment-like cocoon, in which the larva usually 

 rests without change through the Winter, pupating shortly before 

 emerging as an adult in Summer. 



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A NEW PAMPHILA. 



By HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Phila., Pa. 



Pamphila Carolina n. sp. Male expands one inch. Upper side: Supe- 

 riors fuscous, with three small subapical yellow spots, the uppermost one 

 is very small in comparison with the other two. There are two yellow 

 spots about the middle of the cell, which are almost coalesced. There is 

 a row of four yellow spots extending across the wing from about its mid- 

 dle nearly to the interior margin. The inner third of the wing to the base 

 is dusted with yellow scales. Inferiors immaculate (two specimens have 

 traces of yellow spots). Underside: Superiors. The spots above are 

 repeated, but are not nearly so well defined, and there is a distinct costal 

 edging of brownish yellow. Interiors brownish yellow, distinctly spotted 



