188 B. NEUMOKGKN AND H. G. DYAR. 



Thorax silver-gray, with a square, deep brown patch on the anterior part and 

 head. Fore wings silver-gray along internal margin, the costal half brown, 

 shading into deep brown where it joins the gray, and produced downwards in 

 two teeth at the location of the t. a. and t. p. lines. The t. p. line is indicated 

 on costal margin, and there is an oblique brown dash on the outer margin cross- 

 ing vein 5. Secondaries brownish gray. Expanse 35 mm. 



Hub. — Atlantic States. 



Genus Cerura Schrank. 

 1802.— Schrank, Fauna Boica ii (2), p. 155. 



Andria Hiibner. 

 1810?— Hiibner, Tent. p. 1. 



Hnrpyia Ochsenheiuier. 

 1810.— Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. vol. iii, p. 19. 



Pnnia Dal man. 

 1823.— Dalman, Anal. Ent. p. 92. 



Dicranura Boisduval. 

 1829.— Boisduval, Ind. Meth. p. 54. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Primaries crossed by about eight angularly undulate black lines. 



Secondaries black multiscripta. 



Secondaries white scitiscri|>ta. 



Primaries crossed at basal third by a broad gray band, sometimes absent. 



One or more transverse, dentate lines on discal area before the subterminal 

 shade. 

 Transverse band gray, pulverulent, bordered by black and orange scales. 



Fore wings pale cinereous occideiilali!^. 



Fore wings white. 



Transverse band broad SCoIopeiKlriiia. 



Transverse baud narrow or broken var. :«ll>i<'<>iiia. 



Band even blackish, without distinct borders iiiotlcisita. 



A double row of veuular dots forming an ellipse, sometimes obsoietely con- 

 nected boreal is. 



A single row of veuular dots preceded by a rigid shade line, or discal area 

 immaculate. 



Fore wings dark cinereous <^iiierea. 



Fore wings pale cinereous var. ciiierooicle.**. 



Fore wings nearly white. 



Transverse gray band distinct var. placida. 



This band very obscure or absent var. iiivea. 



C nmltiscripta Riley. 



1875. Eiley, Trans. St. Louis ,\cad. vol. iii, p. 241. 

 White; thorax faintly greenish, hind wings blackish. Posterior edge of collar 

 and two transverse rows of dots on thorax black; abdomen banded with blackish 

 above. Wings crossed by eight narrow, dentate, black lines, with a sea-green 

 shade between the lines 2 and 3 and 7 and 8, the latter on costal half. A ter- 

 minal row of black dots. Expanse, % 25 mm.; 9 30 mm. 

 Hab. — Atlantic States, westward. 



