344 NORTH AMERICAN CALLIMORPHA. 



essentially from the preceding". According to biui, '-The hirvte were 

 black above with rich yellow dorsal and lateral lines, the latter some- 

 what irregular and broken; also with rows of raised bluish-black tuber- 

 cles, from whence proceed tufts of short bristles. Beueath it is pale 

 grayish with darker marks. Head black. Feet bhick, prolegs black out- 

 side, pinkish on the inside." They were raised on willow and peach. 



These descriptions do not correspond very closely. Mr. Strecker's is 

 most characteristic of the genus, but he had hybrids, and the larvte 

 could hardly be couuted as typical. 



The species is locally common. 



C. clymene Esper, Schmett., iv, 2-2. 10 pi., 1&2; iioct. 103 f. 1, Xoctua ; Meig. Syst. 

 Beschr, Eur. ScLinett., iii, 40 pi. 8'6, f. 2, CalUmorpha ; Oclis. Schmett. Eur. 

 IV, suppl., 208, Euprejna; Hb. Yerz., 1816, 18->, Haploa ; Wlk. C. B. M. Lep. 

 Het., iii, G50 Ilypercompa ; Clem., Pr. Ac. N. Sc. Ph., 18(50, 5:56, Hijpercompa ; 

 Morris, App. to Syn. 1862, 345, CalUmorpha ; Saund. Syn. Can. Arct., 1863, p. 

 28, Hypercompa ; Pack., Pr. Eut. Soc. Phil., iii, 1864, 107 CaUimorpha ; Beth.» 

 Can. Eut.,1, 18; Stretch., Zyg. and Bomb., 172, p. 7, f. 19, CaUimo}p}ia. 

 Carolina Harris, Kept. lus. Mass, 1841, 243 ; luj. lus., 344 CalUmorpha : Pack., Pr. 



E. Soc. Phil., iii, 1864, 107, pr. syn. 

 coloria Hb. Bomb., 135, pi. 31, f. 135, Bomhijx ; Wlk. C. B. M. Lop. Hot., iii, 650, 

 pr. syu. 



Head yellow; palpi with terminal joint black; eyes and antennae 

 black ; collar yellow, with two black dots, one on each side of the mid- 

 dle. Thorax white, pategia- black edged anteriorly, a broad dorsal black 

 stripe. xVbdomen yellow. Thorax beneath and legs yellow ; anterior 

 femora, tibia, and tarsi blackish, a black spot on coxte ; median tibia 

 and tarsi blackish outwardly. Primaries white, with a very faint yel- 

 lowish tinge ; completely black margined except at apex, where the 

 white reaches the costa ; sometimes, too, the anal angle is clear. A 

 brown band crosses the wing from the anal angle to the costa, about 

 two-fifths from base. From the middh- of this band runs another to 

 the outer margin below apex. From the same point as the last-mentioned 

 band a short baud goes to costa at the end of the cell. A cross baud 

 runs from the subapical band to the costa near apex, leaving thus a 

 large triangular white patch in the wingbasally, a series of three large 

 spots along the costal margin, of which the middle is the largest, and 

 a large, triangular patch along the outer margin which is sometimes 

 divided superiorly by black veins crossing it. Often a small white s[)Ot 

 in the dusky part of anal angle. The bands vary in width, and the 

 spots sometimes become more or less confluent. As a rule, however, 

 the species is very coustaut. Secondaries clear yellow, sometimes with 

 sometimes without a black dot near the anal angle. Under side yellow,, 

 the markings of the upper side more or less completely, but generally 

 faintly, reproduced. 



Expands 1.92-2.10 inches ; 48-52""". 



Habitat.— Canada, New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas', 

 Illinois. 



