CYCLOrAEDES. 115 



3. N. Catullus Godt. Encyc. Method. IX, 777. Figured in Sm. Abb. I, 



pi. 24. 



Small ; body black, head white. Wings deep black, with a 

 transverse line of white points near the posterior edge ; primaries, 

 with other small points of this color, fewer in number on the under 

 side, and tlmt of the secondaries. 



Var. Wings without spots on the upper side ; secondaries with 

 only one white point before the ray formed by the others ; in some 

 specimens the spots fail entirely. 



Southern States. 



Abbot. 



4. N. I'herminier Godt. Encyc. Method. IX, 777. N. pygmsea? Fab. 



AntemicE black, with the rings and a part of the under side of 

 the club whitish ; terminal hook brown. Wings blackish, but 

 paler below, inclining to ashy and without spots. 



Carolina. — Expands nine lines. 



GODAKT. 



5. N. tristis Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X. 



Figure and size of N. juvenalis. Wings blackish-brown, with 

 the fringe of the secondaries white. Primaries with some black 

 undulations, on the middle a small whitish point, then a bent line 

 of six similar points, separated into two groups, the one of four 

 near the upper edge, the other of two, beyond the median nerve. 



Under side paler than the opposite. In this species, as in JSf. 

 juvenalis, the small points are placed on the most obscure little 

 bands. 



California. 



Boisd. 



CYCLOP AEDES Hpbn. 



Head as broad as the thorax ; labial palpi remote, hirsute, por- 

 rected, as low as the head ; terminal joint very minute, conical, 

 nearly concealed by the hairs of the preceding joint. Antenna3 

 short, club stout, slightly curved, not hooked at the tip, which is 

 obtuse. Wings erect when at rest. Primaries long, fringe entire. 

 Disk dark brown, with orange-colored spots, alike in both sexes. 

 Secondaries short, entire ; spotted on the primaries. Hind legs 



