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Callimorpha contigua. 



Hi/percompa contigua Walk., Cat Lep. B. M. III. -p- 652. (1855). 



Clem., Proe. Acad. iS"at. Se. p. 536. (Nov. 1800). 

 Morris, Synopsis Lep. N. Amer. Appen., p. .346. (1860). 

 Saunders, Synopsis Can. Aretiadse, p. 26. (1863). 



Callimorplia fulvicosta. 



Hypercompafiilvicosta Clem., Proe. Acad. Nat. So. Phil. p. 536. (Nov. 1860). 

 Saunders, Synopsis Can. Arctiada3, p. 27. (1863). 



Callimorpha vestalis n. sp. 



S & 9 . Pure iiuuiaculate milk-white, 9 white. Tips of the palpi 

 brown. Head and prothorax, basal half of the patagia and costa of 

 both wings above and beneath yellow. The legs are also yellow be- 

 neath. The abdomen is white and unspotted. Antennas brown. Body 

 % .65, 9 .65. Exp. wings % 1.70, 9 1.70 inch. 

 Middle Atlantic States. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil., through A. R. arote.) 

 This species of which I had a % and 9 each differs remarkably from 

 the other species in being of a nearly pure white, and of smaller size. 

 The broader triangular primaries, the fine scales on the body, and the 

 short angular hind wings will distinguish it readily from the white 

 variety of Euchsetes egle. 



EPICALLIA llubner. 

 This genus differs from the closely allied PcricalUa and Eiqyrepla 

 in the hardly oblique outer margin of the fore wings, and the straight 

 costa. 



Epicallia virginalis. 



Chelonia virginalis Boisd., Lep Cal. (Ann. Ent. Soo. France), p. -19. (1852). 

 Arctia virginalis Walk., Cat. Lep. B. M. IIL p. 611. (1855). 



Morris, Synopsis Lep. N. Amer. Appendix, p. 337. (1860). 



The angular outer edge of the hind wings of the European Epicallia 

 villica give the wing a triangular form, which becomes subovate in the 

 Californian E. virginalis. Now the European species villica imitates 

 in this respect the European genera Pericallia and Euprcpia. Thus 

 the Californian species, which is moreover finely scaled, agrees best 

 with Callimorpha^ which is a truly American genus; for we would con- 

 sider the single European species C. Hera as the most aberrant form 

 in the genus, since it simulates in its colors other strictly European 

 genera. On the other hand, we would consider that in the genus under 



