2fotes and Descriptions, JVb. 2. 3 



Parorgyia achatina. 



Phalcena achatina. Smith, Lep. Ins. Ga. Vol. 2, p. 153, PI. 77. (1797.) 



:',n achatina, Hiibner, Verz. Schm. p. 161. (1816.) 

 Dasychira achatina, Walker, C. B. M., Lep. Pt. 4, p. 865. (1S55.) 



" " Morris, Syn. X. A. Lep. p. 257. (1862.) 



Non alior. 

 Habitat. — Georgia. (Abbot.) 



The species of the genus Parorgyia will perhaps be found to be nu- 

 merous. Their* structure and the position of the genus have been 'well 

 explained by Dr. Packard in his " Synopsis," and indicated by Smith, 

 Ins. Ga. p. 155, Vol. 2. 



Parorgyia Clintonii, u. s. (Plate 1, fig. 2 % , 3 9 .) 



9 . Greyish olivaceous, sparsely sprinkled with black, isolated scales. 

 A dark basal line. Space between this line and the inner median 

 transverse line (transverse anterior) pale brown,' dotted sparsely with 

 black scales, cinereous-olivaceous along costa. Transverse anterior line 

 slightly oblique, faint, lost in the brown scales of the sub-basal space 

 which precede it, but distinctly indicated, margined outwardly with 

 pale scales, angulated below costa, below m. nervure twice very dis- 

 tinctly and deeply excavate. Median space cinereous-olivaceous, sparse- 

 ly sprinkled with black scales, paler along costa and especially on the 

 disc and beyond to the t. p. line where the scales are almost white. 

 On these white scales a large reniform discal spot is indicated by a 

 black rather indistinct encircling line and a central brownish streak. 

 Transverse posterior line (outer median) black, broad, very distinct, 

 nearly straight, very slightly undulate between the nervules, the most 

 prominent projection occurring at the second m. nervule outwardly, and 

 another, rounded inwardly, at above internal nervure. Outside the t. 

 p. line is a wide dark brown shade band irregularly margined outwardly 

 with whitish scales and narrowing greatly below the third m. nervule. 

 On the interspaces, superiorly, are darker brown, longitudinal dashes; 

 above the internal nervure is a dark brown maculate shade, broadly 

 margined outwardly with white scales. Terminally the wing is cinere- 

 ous-olivaceous as on median space. A terminal narrow black line, mar- 

 gined inwardly narrowly with whitish scales. Fringes dark, interrupted 

 with pale brown at the extremity of the nervules. Secondaries evenly 

 pale cinereous-brown. A darker shaded discal spot and subtermiual 

 band; fringes coneolorous with the wing. 



Under surface of both wings similar, but a little paler than seconda- 

 ries above, very sparsely sprinkled with dark scales; a dark discal spot 

 and subterminal line on both pair; ou the primaries the discal spot ex- 



