3-10 ^ORTII AMEKKJAX CALMMfJilPIIA. 



lieiWiKt'oas and .sliiul)l)y plaiit.s, and conceal themselves during the day. 

 He nioiesses ignorance of the hirva of niitifdris. Packard, in his Guide, 

 maues tlie same general titatenient. 



Walker, in the Cat. Lep. li. M. Ilet., Ill, 050, divides the Xorth 

 Americiui S[)ecies as follows : 



A. Ala- iiostica- lutea-. 



a. Ala! autitM' fiisca;, vittis iiiaiulaiibus aUjis Clv.mkm'. K-^jicr. 



b. Ala' aiitica' Intescentes, fusco subiuaTj^iiiata' Comma It'aihcr. 



B. Ala' postica; aU)a'. 



o. Ahu autic'a> maculis albis Lkc< ixtei lioiid. 



i. Aliv. anticai vitta macnlifmiiu' duabii.s albis contigua Walker. 



c. AliC aiiticiB vitta macula(iiie albis Coxfinis Walker. 



He does not know the miliiaris of Harris, which he redescribed as 

 confinis, nor the interrupto-maryinata of De Beauvois, which he names 

 comma. 



Of lecontci he describes four varieties : 



a. Fore vriugs with four white spots ; second nearly round. 



,3, Second spot forked ; fourth iuterruiited. 



j\ Like var. fi. Third spot nearly divided. 



S. Like rar. ,3. Second and third spots divided. 



Two forms seem mixed here, the true Iccontei and the species herein- 

 after named by me siiffusa. 



One of the immaculate forms was afterwards described as Tanada 

 jconscifa, and this is the form named restalis by Packard. 



In 18G0, Proc. Ac. y. Sc. Phil., 530, Clemens first described one of the 

 immaculate forms as C.fuh-icosia, and considered it a good species. 



Packard, in his Syuopis of the Bombycida', 1804 (Pr. E. S. Ph., 1864, 

 107), cites miUtaris as a sj'uonym of Iccontei^ and leaves contigua, con- 

 Jinis, nud fulvicosta with specific rank. He also describes as vestaUs an 

 immaculate form which he says is smaller than the other species and 

 nearly pure white. 



In speaking of /Mrrico,v/«, Stretch, in his Zygienida? and Bombycidie, 

 p. 04, says " of which vestaUs Pack, is only a synonym." 



Morris, in the Synopsis, suppl., p. 345, follows Walker in the syuon- 

 omy as a rule, omits lecontci altogether, but describes four varieties of 

 militarls Harris, as follows: 



" Var. a. Primaries with four white spots ; second nearly round. 



'' Var. b. Second spot forked ; fourth interrupted. 



" Var. c. Third spot nearly divided. 



" Var. d. Second and third spots divided." 



Messrs. Grote and liobinson, in the Tr. A. E. S., II, p. 72, refer con- 

 finis Walk, and contigua Walk, as synonj'ms of lecontci. 



Stretch, in the Zygienidie and Bombycid;e of Korth America, p. 02, 

 gives a synonomy in which he refers miUtaris as a synonj'm of lecontei, 

 makes confinis, contigiui, and fulvicosta varieties, and cites vestaUs a 

 synonym of fulvicosta. 



