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Tlie following- synopsis and descriptions of the luotbs of this genus have been kindly prepared 

 for ine by 'Sir. Dyar: 



SYNOPSIS OF TIIK SPECIES <ir DATANA. 



Outer margin of primaries distinctly escavatc-d between the veins. 



Color entirely smoky or blackish brown om/Hsii 



Color yellowish brown or paler. 



Discal spots faint or absent: size mediuin. 



Color yellow-browu .'. . vtiuislra 



Color testaceous cnlijuruirii 



Disoal spots distinct; size large drcxelii 



Outer margin indistinctly excavate, nearly entire in the J . 

 Color tawny brown or purplish. 



Tawny brown, discal spots distinct : si?e large major 



More or le.ss purplish, discal spots indistinct, of medium size. 

 Thoracic patch reddish brown. 



Fore wings dark brown with a purplish Hush Horidaiia 



Fore wings dull whitish lilac, more or less covered with cinnamon-brown scales pnlmii 



Thoracic patch ocherous modmta 



Color yellowish buff. 



Thoracic patch tawuy brown ^je j .s;)!Vh(i 



Thoracic jiatch as pale as the thorax rohiista 



Outer margin of primaries entire. 



Primaries dark reddish brown ; lines and fringe coucolorous inlaiervinia 



Primaries Inteons tawny, the lines and fringe not concolorous coiitracta 



SYNOPSIS OF THE I„\UV.E. 



Secondary hairs shorter than jirimary ones; larvie moderately hairy. 



Primary hairs (from the warts) and secondary (from the skin) coucolorous, pale. 



Stripes very narrow, pale yellow nnqnsU 



Stripes moderately broad, greenish vellow * in mix ha 



■■" ( calijuniica.' 



Stripes lemon-yellow, coutluent posteriorly drcxelii 



Primary hairs pale, secondary discolorous, dark. 



Secondary hairs black; head red. 



Stripes broken into quadrate spots ; inajnr 



Stripes continuous. 



Head dark red floridaiia 



Head paler red :... palmii 



Secondary hairs lirown ; head black or red per.'<piriia 



Secondary hairs long, concolorous with primary ones, pale; larva> very hairy. 



Lines narrow or olfsoletc .« intciierriiiia 



Lines broad, creamy white coiitracta 



, Datana miiiistra Walker. 

 (PL II; tig. 3, c?; tig. 4, 9.) 



I'lialn-na miiiistra Drury, lUustr. Exot. Ent., ii, p. 25, pi. 14, fig. 3, 1773. 



Abbot and Smith, N. H. Lep. Ins. Georgia, p. 161, Tab. Ixxxi, 1797. 

 Fijga'raf miiiiatra Harr., Cat. Ins. Mass., p. 73, 1835; Rept. Ins. Mass., p. 312, 1841; ibid., tliird edit.. PI. VI, 



figs. 6, 212, 1862. 

 Pelania miiiistra Westw. Edit. Drury, Illustr., 11, p. 27, pl. 14, WM. 

 Datana ministra Walk., Cat. Lep. Br. Mus., v, p. 1061, 18.55. 



Eumctopona ministra Fitch, 2d Kept. Nox. Ins. N. York, p. 235, pl. 4, fig. 3, 1856; 3d Kept., p. 19, 1857. 

 Datana ministra Morris. Synopsis, Lep. N. Amer., p. 247, 1862. 



Orote. New Check List N. Amer. Moths, p. 18, 1882. 



Smith, List Lep. 15or. Amer., p. 30, 1891. 



Kirby, Syn, Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 613, 1892, 



Neum. and Uyar, Trans. Amer. Ent. S c xxi. p. 197, 1894, 



Larva. 

 (Pl. X, figs. 1, 1((, Ift, Ic, Irf, le.) 



Abbot and Smilli, Lep. Ins. Georgia, p. 161. Pl. LXXXI, 1797, 



Earris. Ins. Inj. Veg., 1st edit., p, 312, 1841: Ins. Inj. Veg.. 2d edit., p. 332, 18.52. 



Fitch, 2d Kept. Nox. Ins. N. York, p. 237, 1856; 3d Kept. Ins. N. York, p. 337, 1857. 



