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Wings deep orange; forewing black at base and on costa, streaked with black veins; 



hindwing with 3 hyaline areas at wing base, divided by black veins ; legs black ; 



male antennae and caudal appendage black ; female antennae orange. 



autumnalis, new species 



Wings opaque, bluish black; female antennae orange carolinensis Engelhardt 



Wings opaque, dark orange ; hindwing lacking hyaline area at base ; antennae, legs, 



and male caudal appendage black verrugo verrugo (Druce) 



Wings opaque, lustrous black in bolh sexes verrugo corvinus, new variety 



ALCATHOE CAUDATA CAUDATA (Harris) 



Plate 2, Figure 10 ; Plate 6, Figures Zl , 37a ; Plate 14, Figure dl 



Aegeria caudata Harris, Amer. Journ. Arts and Sci., vol. 36, p. 311, 1839. — 

 Walker, List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of 

 the British Museum, pt. 8, p. 42, 1856. — Packard, Guide to the study of 

 insects . . ., p. 278, 1869. — Lintner, 23d Ann. Rep. New York State Cabinet 

 Nat. Hist., 1869, p. 192, 1873. — Thomas, Seventh report of the State entomolo- 

 gist on the noxious and beneficial insects of the State of Illinois, 1877, p. 172, 

 1878. — Marten, in Thomas, Tenth report of the State entomologist on the 

 noxious and beneficial insects of the State of Illinois, p. 108, 1881. 



Trochilium candatiim Fitch, Third report on the noxious, beneficial, and other 

 insects of the State of New York, 1856, p. 424, 1857. — Morris, Synopsis of 

 the described Lepidoptera of North America, p. 139, 1862. — Bethune, Can. 

 Ent., 1868, vol. 1, p. 18, 1869.— Hv. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 2, p. 53, 1882. 



Sesia caudata Boisduval, Histoire naturelle des insectes : Species general des 

 lepidopteres heteroceres, vol. 1, p. 437, 1874. 



Alcatho'e caudatum Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 2, p. 53, 1882. — Beutenmuller, 

 Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 5, p. 204, 1890 ; Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 8, p. 116, 1896; vol. 9, p. 217, 1897; Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, 

 pt. 6, p. 240, pi. 29, figs. 7, 8, 1901.— Jack, Garden and Forest, vol. 4, p. 496, 

 fig. 77, 1891. — Riley and Howard, Insect Life, vol. 4, p. 219, 1891. — Kellicott, 

 Can. Ent., vol. 24, p. 44, 1892. — Engelhardt, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., vol. 20, 

 p. 156, 1925. — McDuNNOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the 

 United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8685, 1939. 



Male. — Antennae long, very slightly dilated ; pectinations short and fine, 

 yellow or orange. Labial palpus nearly smooth ; second joint slightly 

 thickened, deep yellow. Head black, slightly mixed with brown on top 

 and on face. Collar black. Thorax black, shiny, patagia slightly touched 

 with reddish, metathorax with lateral light-brown tufts. Abdomen black, 

 violaceous or coppery, beneath reddish brown ; anal tuft black at base and 

 with a soft, hairy, yellow appendage as long as, or longer than, the abdo- 

 men. Forelegs with coxae brownish red ; posterior tibiae rough, red- 

 brown to the last spurs; first tarsal joints heavily tufted with yellow and 

 orange, posterior joints yellow. Forewing opaque black on outer half, 

 vitreous on basal half, streaked with black veins ; underside somewhat 

 rusty black. Hindwing transparent, narrowly margined black. 



Female. — Antennae pale yellow. Labial palpi yellow beneath, black 

 above. Head black. Collar orange. Thorax and abdomen purplish black ; 

 anal tuft long, narrow, black. Forelegs orange, shaded with black out- 



