348 NORTH AMERICAN CALLIMORPHA. 



the (lark bauds become attenuated aud some of the spots become more 

 or less coutiueut. Karely the macuhition is almost, but uever entirely, 

 wanting-. The distinctive feature which is always noticeable is found 

 in the oblique baud, which, in this species, reaches the costa abont two- 

 fifths from the base, and the -white patch on the disk is therefore very 

 obtusely angled on the costa. Secondaries white, iinaiaculate, raivly 

 with a dusky spot near anal angle. Beneath, white, maculation of 

 ])rimaries faintly reproduced. 



Exj)ands 1.75-2.00 inches =43-50""". 



Habitat. — Canad.i, Xew York, Massachusetts. Georgia. Kansas, .Mis- 

 souri, Illinois, and Texas. 



In maculation this species is the exact counterpart of clinnene. aud t he 

 size also is nearly the same. The ground color, then, is the only point 

 of difference, sui)erficially : but this removes all chance of coufasion^ 

 except in the case of specimens like the pale forms of clymene hereinbe- 

 fore described ami which may be hybrids. Compared with contigua^ our 

 species is uniformly larger and heavier. 



The side piece of the male genitalia has the superior angle prolonged 

 into an obtusely rounded, subequal process, and the inferior angle 

 simply rounded. It differs, therefore, very decidedly in this respect 

 from contigua and still more so from clymene. 



The larva has been described by Mr. Saunders, Can. Ent., i, 20, as 

 follows: 



"Taken June 10, 18GS,feedingon horse gentian (Triosfe?tw i)erfoUatum). 

 Length 1.10 inches, nearly cylindrical. Head rather small, bilobed, black 

 and shining, with a few short hairs ; mandibles black ; palpi pale browu 

 tipped with black ; body above black, with transverse rows of elevated^ 

 shining black tubercles, from each of which arises a spreading tuft of short 

 bristly hairs; a bright yellow dorsal stripe aud a wide band of the same 

 color on each side, this latter intersected with streaks aud centered with 

 a broken band of black ; about half way between the dorsal and lateral 

 stripes is a row of pale whitish dots, forming a faint, broken line. Under 

 surface dirty grayish white with streaks and dots of brown ; feet black; 

 prolegs dirty white on inside, with a patch of shining black on the outside 

 of each. These larva entered the chrysalis state on the 19th aud 20th of 

 June, aud produced the imago on the 12th and 14th of July. Four 

 specimens were reared, and the moths were as nearl}^ alike as possible^ 

 showing no tendency to the remarkable variations attac hed to this 

 species." Peach has also been mentioned as a food plant of this species, 

 but it has never been abundant enough to cause damage. 



V. 



C. lecontei B<1. in Gner., Ic. Rrjxue Auiiu., i>l. 3'J, f. 4, CullUnorpha ; Uoub. in HaiT. 



Corr., l2->, 149; Wlk., C. B. M., Lep. Het. iii, Gfil, Uypercompa ; H. Sch., Lep. 



Ex. p. 72, CaUimorpha ; Clem., Pr. Ac. N. Sci. Phil., IdGO, 53(5, Hypcrcompa. 

 Jeucomelas H. Sch., Lep. Ex., p. 17, f. 431, CaUimorpha ; id., p. 72, pr. syn. 

 reversa Stretch, Eut. Am., i, 104 (iu pari). 



Head yellow, tips of palpi aud antennie black. Thorax white, anterior 

 edge of pategitie brown ; a broad brown dorsal stripe. Abdomen white, 



