1864.] 



839 



Euclea paenulata. 



Empretia pxnulata Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. p. 159. (May, 1860). 



Morris, Synopsis Lep. N. Amer. p. 1.31. (18(32). 

 New York (Edwards, Calverley). St. Louis, Mo. (Sanborn). 



CALLOCHLORA nov. gen. 



Head prominent, the front very broad, square. Antennae shoi'ter than 

 in Euclea, pectinated on the basal half, the branches a little longer than 

 in Euclea. The palpi are porrect, the subacute tips passing a little beyond 

 the front, but they are not so stout or so long as in Euclea. Thorax 

 stouter than usual, globose, while the abdomen is small, tapering rap- 

 idly towards the tip, which is not much tufted. Primaries broad, costa 

 swollen near the base, and towards the apex, being more excavated in 

 the middle than Euclea, while the apex is more produced, and the 

 outer edge is longer and more oblique, more regularly rounded and 

 continuous with the inner edge which is a little shorter than the outer 

 edae, while ia Euclea the outer edo;e is shorter than the inner. The 

 subcostal nervure runs nearer the costal edge than usual, going straight 

 to the origin of its 3rd nervule. The origin of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd 

 s. c. nervules are equidistant. Apical interspace shorter and broader 

 than in the preceding genus. Discal nervules, and origin of last sub- 

 costal and 1st median are all placed well beyond the middle of the 

 wing. Last s. c. nervule arises opposite the independant or 1st median 

 where in Euclea it is removed much farther inwards. The 2nd median 

 nervule arises farther in than the 3rd, and the end of the nervure con- 

 necting them is very oblique, while in Euclea it is straight and the two 

 nervules arise opposite each other. 



The secondaries reach nearly to the tip as in Euclea, but are nar- 

 rower, and the outer margin is shorter, thus making the interspaces 

 narrower, especially the apical space ; and the branches of the median 

 nervure are shorter. 



This genus is quite distinct from the preceding, and the single spe- 

 cies known can be easily recognized by its grass-green thorax and the 

 broad grass-green band that separates the brown margin of the wing 

 from its base. The wings and body is finer scaled than in Euclea and 

 the veins can be more distinctly seen on either side. 



Callochlora vernata, n. sp. 



% . Of a uniform pale cinnamon brown. A broad, short vertical 



