AMERICAN LEI'IDOPTERA. 269 



two or three spots in cells of each wing ; fringes alternate fuscous and 

 whitish. 



Under sii^lc fulvous on disk of primaries, suffused with ochraceous 

 which is clear on costa, apex and middle of hind margin; an obliciue 

 black band on costal margin of primaries reaching from the edge to 

 median nervure ; a small black patch beyond near apex; a large one 

 on middle of inner margin and another near inner angle, with a small 

 spot between the two ; secondaries clear yellow from base to middle of 

 disk, very slightly reticulated with fulvous lines, one of which crosses 

 the middle of the wing sinuously; at the end of this line on costa a 

 ferruginous patch, and a large sub-triangular patch of same color oil 

 middle of hind margin; the margin bordered by two lines of crescents, 

 the one in the upper median interspace yellow. 



Body above concolored, beneath greyish yellow; palpi ochraceous, 

 fuscous on upper side and at tip; antennae auuulatcd black and white, 

 ochraceous below; club tipped with fulvous. 



Taken in Colorado by Mr. Mead. 

 PiiYCiODES Emissa, n. sp. 



Male. — Expands l.-t inch. 



Upper side black spotted with fulvous very much as in Camillm ; 

 the marginal crescents distinct; the second row larger, especially on 

 secondaries ; the discal row pale colored ; fringes fuscous and 

 whitish. 



Under side of primaries fulvous on disk, bright yellow on costa and 

 apex, and narrowly bordered by siune shade on hind margin ; this mar- 

 gin edged by a cremited line and a series of lunations; a patch of 

 black near inner angle and a zigzag black stripe crossing the win;;- be- 

 yond the cell. Secondaries buff mottled with pale ochraceous and from 

 base to middle of wing reticultead by ferruginous lines; the outer line 

 deeply incised in the two upper median interspaces and dentated next 

 abdominal margin ; the space beyond this line clouded with brown 

 and enclosing a series of brown points ; the margin bordered by a 

 series of lunules, .the three next outer angle pale, nearly white, the 

 middle one silvered, and the one anterior to it partially so. 



Body above fuscous, below, thorax white; abdomen white with yel- 

 low tint; palpi white at base yellow at tip ; antennae black and white 

 below whitish ; club black above , whitish below, fulvous at tip. 



Female. — Kxpands 1.6 inch. 



Upper side similar, the fulvous spots larger, and on secondaries 

 nearly covering the disk. Secondaries beneath clouded with darker 



TUANS. AMER. EXT. SOC. (35) llAliCH 1871. 



