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anterior wings transparent, margin and nervnres black, a trans- 

 verse orange bar beyond the middle. Posterior wings with the 

 margin black, and a short yellow line near the middle of the 

 anterior margin. Thorax with sides black, anterior and pos- 

 terior margin orange yellow. Body black, with eight yellow 

 rings, antennae ferruginous, legs yellow; no tuft at the tail. 

 Below is a 9 , whether of the same species I do not know. 

 Anterior wings dark brown, with an abbreviated, transverse, 

 orange line beyond the middle, and a transparent spot on the 

 posterior angle ; the base slightly clouded Avith yellow. Poste- 

 rior wings with only the outer margin, and a spot on the ante- 

 rior margin, brown. Thorax brown, with the sides and posterior 

 margin tawny yellow. Abdomen black-brown, with two rings 

 near the base, the base yellowish orange, and two small lateral 

 tufts of the same color near the apex. Antennas black at base, 

 apex orange ; legs, except the yellow tarsi, orange. 



Pliolus ■epimenis cannot be near to Glaucopis. It is close to 

 Breplios. The larva, according to Abbot, feeds on Bignonia 

 i'adicans. It is pale, with black lines, and though having the full 

 complement of legs, seems to be a semilooper in its walk, like 

 Breplios. I shall soon send an article to Charlesworth, with 

 the new species of this group. 



I find I have a specimen of S. sordida from Wilmington, 

 Del., and amongst the insects in our Club Cabinet collected by 

 Abbot, is a specimen near coniferarum^ fcut apparently distinct. 



Then amongst the Bomhyces of Abbot's drawings are many 

 things I do not know, and I have got much information I 

 wanted from these drawings. There is a good figure of both 

 male and female of my 104, but no larva. The female (for as 

 tlijsy are put on the same paper, and are a <? and $ , I suppose 

 they belong to one another), is very different in marking from 

 the males. Anterior wings lead-colored, with various strigae and 

 spots, the base and an irregular transverse band beyond the mid- 

 dle, white; outer margin broadly brown from the apex nearly to 

 the anal angle, with the tips of two of the nervures whitish, and 



