126 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Fam. conchilopodidae. 



LIMACODES Duncan. 



Body rather stout, slender in some species. Proboscis not 

 visible. Palpi porrect, rather stout, covered with scales, extending 

 a little beyond the head ; third joint conical, acute. Antennae of 

 the males simple, compressed, rather serrated, pilose at the apex ; 

 those of the females slender, a little serrated towards the apex, 

 which is acute, extending a little beyond the head. Legs stout, 

 pilose; hind tibia3 with four spurs. "Wings moderately broad, 

 deflexed ; primaries elongate, posterior margin rounded. Abdo- 

 men a little tufted at the extremity in both sexes. 



1. L. cippus Cram. L. cjuerceti Herr. Schaef. Figured in Cram. Fap. 

 Esot. i; 84, pi. 53. Sm. Abb. pi. 13. Nat. Libr., vol. 37, pi. 21, 

 p. 177. Walker, C. B. M. V, 1144 (1855). 



Brownish-red. Primaries with a curved dark brown band be- 

 yond two-thirds of the length and with some dark brown marks 

 nearer the base ; each wing with two green spots, which are divided 

 on the outer side by a white and black border from two red spots ; 

 upper green spot transverse, smaller than the other,, which is longi- 

 tudinal and attenuated at its tip. Secondaries with testaceous 



borders and a dark brown spot on the interior angle. 



Walkek. 



Larva destitute of feet, properly so called, their place being 

 supplied merely by a few protuberances ; and along the under 

 side of the body there is a soft pliable membrane, covered with a 

 kind of glutinous matter, by means of which and the protuber- 

 ances, it slides rather than creeps over the surface of a body. The 

 back appears composed of three parts, the intermediate of which 

 is separated from the others by a kind of keel, and is oval, a little 

 pointed at both ends ; the lateral parts projecting a little beyond 

 the edges of the body. The head is entirely retractile. 



Nat. Lib. 



2. L. quercicola Ilerr. Scliaeffer. Lep. exot. I, f. 175. "Walker, C. B. M. 

 V, 1144. 

 Brownish-red. Primaries with a curved dark brown band, be- 

 yond two-thirds of the length, and with two dark brown discal 



