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little behind this, which is cut by the nervule, and one behind the cell 

 also cut by the nervule. The secondaries have one rather large white 

 central spot, almost reaching to the costa. The abdomen has two basal 

 spots very clear white, conspicuous, and its sides have also three clear 

 white spots, the middle one the largest. Tip of the abdomen orange-red. 

 At the base of the coxae are also white spots. Lower side with the 

 markings repeated. Exp. wings, 50 mm. 



Taken in Florida by Mr. C. J. Maynard. Coll. Museum Comp. 

 Zoology, Cambridge. A figure of this beautiful species is given by Mr. 

 Butler in Lepid. Heteroc. B. Museum, Pt. 1, plate 8, figure 5. Mr. Butler 

 gives the locality as Honduras. 



DESCRIPTION OF TWO LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVJE. 



BY WM. BEUTENMULLER, NEW YORK. 



Boils magistralis, Grote. 



Head pale brown, smooth, shining ; mouth parts dark brown ; cervical 

 shield brown, divided in the middle by the color of the body, which is 

 translucent greenish-white ; along the dorsal region two rows of shining 

 pale brown piliferous spots, four on each segment, those on the first seg- 

 ment darker in color. All the spots bear a short light brown hair. Thor- 

 acic feet, abdominal and anal legs concolorous with the body. Length 

 30 mm. Lives singly on Clethra alnifolia, in a number of leaves fas- 

 tened together with silken threads. Pupated J uly 6th. Imagos emerged 

 July 17th and 18th. 



Botis erectalis, Gr. 



Head small, jet black, shining ; mouth parts whitish. In some indi- 

 viduals of the brood the head is marked with dirty white. First segment 

 dirty white mottled with black. Body above ochreous, with five rows of 

 rather large shining jet black piliferous spots on each side, placed as fol- 

 lows : One row on the dorsal, one on the sub-dorsal, one above, and two 

 below the spiracles, which are black. From all the spots springs a short 

 pale brown hair. Anal plate dirty white, spotted with black. Body 

 beneath sordid white; on the 4th, 5th, 10th and nth segments two 

 shining black spots, and two minute ones between. Thoracic feet jet 

 black, mottled with dirty white ; abdominal legs whitish with three minute 



