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DESCRIPTIONS OF LEPIDOPTERA FROM ALABAMA. 



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i:Y AUG. K. GROTE. 



Specimens of the species alluded to in the present paper and types of 

 the species described, are deposited in the Museum of the Peabody 

 Academy of Science, Salem. Mass. 



Pygarctia abdomixali s Grote. °_ This genus, allied to Ctenucha, 

 is structurally characterized by the very small labial palpi, which are not 

 porrected but concealed beneath the head ; the dark scales which tip the 

 small terminal joints are projected straightly forward but do not exceed 

 the front. The antennae are somewhat long and stout, shortly bipectinate. 

 The legs are comparatively short, stout, feebly armed and closely scaled. 

 The body parts are moderately heavy, smoothly and closely scaled ; the 

 abdomen is linear, terminates bluntly, and resembles that part in Euchaetes. 

 It is not tufted at the anus. The moth is laden with Arctian analogies. The 

 hind wings, of which alone the neuration has been examined, are 7-veined: 

 veins 3, 4, 5, {H.S.) spring from one point, vein 2 is thrown off from the 

 median nervure at about its middle, widely separate from the rest. The 

 costal nervure is furcate at the outer third and throws off both nervules 

 (veins 6 and 7, H.S.) on to the external margin. The internal nervure 

 (vein 1, H.S.) is without accessory veins. 



The wings are lead color ; in certain lights the primaries show a bluish 

 reflection as in Ctenucha. 'Hie costal region of the forewings above and 

 below is striped with dark yellow as is the internal margin. The hind 

 wings are concolorous immaculate. Abdomen above orange, with a dorsal 

 series of distinct segmentary black spots as in Spilosoma, and other genera 

 of Arctince ; there is also a lateral series of black points ; beneath it is 

 lead color. Palpi, throat and head behind and between the antennae 

 bright orange; front dark as are the palpal tips. Legs dark lead color ; 

 fore coxae orange. Collar tegulae and thoracic disc lead color with a 

 light reflection, and more or less obviously margined with orange scales 

 and shades. Exp. 44 m. m. 5 ignot. 



PARORGYIA i.kucuph.ka Smith sp. £ °. Specimens of this species 

 have been collected by Air. Ridings in Georgia, and Prof. Townend 

 Glover has figured the female. Loth the J specimens I have seen have 

 the primaries suffused with blackish. I have received specimens collected 

 by a friend within a few miles of Demopolis. It closely resembles P. 



