L52 Lepidopterological Miscellanies. 



before tbe microscopical examination of the e3"e was made I had 

 already traced within the cranium the optic nerves from the 

 optic lobes to the orbits, and represented them on tbe plate accom- 

 panying my article (/. &). I did not trace the optic nerve within 

 the orbit, because its existence between the optic nerve within 

 the cranium and the retina could not be doubtful. 



"V. — Lepidopterological Miscellanies. 



By Coleman T. Robinson. 

 Read March 1st, 1869. 



BOMBYC1DAE. 



Subfamily LTIIOSIIXAE, Stephens. 

 El phanessa, Packard. 



Eoptianessa mendica, Packard. (Plate l, fig. 1.) 



Nvdaria mendica, Walker, P>. M., Lists, Part II., p. r>70, 

 1 B54 



Eudule biseriata, Eerrich-Schsaffer, Lep. Exot., p. L9, fig. 

 441, L855. 



Euphanessa mendioa, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil., III., 

 p. LQ2, L864. 



Euphanessa mendica, Grote and Robinson, List Lep. N. 

 A.. Pari L, p. 7. L868. 



Antennae, head, and thorax pale ochreous ; anterior wings, 

 pale&testaceous subhyaline, Bhaded with ochreous along costa 

 and external margin, with two irregalar gray bands composed 

 of Bpote more or less interrupted by the veins, and a single 

 similar gray circular Bpol beyond, near the middle of external 



margin. 



Posterior wings very pale testaceous, margined with pale 

 ochreous. A.bdomen, pale testaceous or whitish. 



