I 



OF I'lriLADKLPHIA. 399 



L. eponina Drury, Vol. 2, pi. 47, fig. 2. Oliv. Enc. Meth. 

 572, No. 10. 



Wintrs pale ferniirinmis ; upper pair with a .subhasal spot, band 

 in the middle, and another band bet'ore the stigma, fuscous ; in- 

 ferior wings with a corresponding band towards the tip, inter- 

 rupted band in the middle, undulated, longitudinal line at the 

 base, and spot near the anal angle fuscous ; anal membrane white ; 

 stigma yellowish. 



Length nearly one inch and a half. 



A beautiful and strongly marked species. 



12. L. ACUTA. — Wings immaculate ; body greenish-yellow ; 

 abdomen with the edges blackish. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



9 Body greenish-yellow ; eyes approaching above, but hardly 

 touching, the nearest parts not rounded, almost acute; orbits be- 

 fore and above with a black edge ; stcthidium immaculate ; ad- 

 domen pale yellowish-brown, yellowish green at base ; the acute 

 longitudinal edges, above and each side, black ; the [25] trans- 

 verse edges and a subbasal transverse line on each segments fus- 

 cous ; venter also with a black line; feet black; thighs yellow- 

 ish, with the spines black, and on the anterior pairs a line be- 

 neath. 



Length one-inch and three-fifths. 



The ({uadrilineatc abdomen, with the subacute proximate por- 

 tion of the eyes distinguish this species ; the abdominal lines are 

 not dilated, but limited to the edge of the carina;. The frontal 

 vesicle is greenish-yellow, with a dark transverse line at the an- 

 tennae. 



[This is L. vestnilom Fabr., Knt. Syst. 2, 5577, (var. parv. ) — 



UlILKR.] 



18. L. Berentok. — Frontal vesicle blue above ; wings ferrugin- 

 ous at base. 



Inhabit." the United States. 



L. Berenice Drury, Ins., Vol. 1, pi. 48, fig. 3. 



Front whitish, steel-blue above ; eyes obtuse above and coh- 

 nate ; trunk brownish, with two greenish-yellow vittaj before, and 

 with three oblique broad and obvious yellow lines each side 

 under the wings ; between the wings varied with blackish ; 

 1839.] 



