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band; sometimes the orange color is deepened to reddish above 

 the terminal band ; fringes paler. 



Texas. 



Mature larva, head green. Body dark green ; with the first 

 segment banded With white containing four black points; with a 

 row of vascular black dots, and two rows of semi-elliptical black 

 dorsal patches edged with white, and a row of lateral somewhat 

 oval patches, blackish and crimson behind, also edged with white ; 

 a row of subdorsal dots between this and dorsal patches ; prolegs 

 crimson, with crimson patches on the sides of the tenth and ele- 

 venth segments. Horn yellow at the base and black terminally. 

 (Abbot & Smith.) 



Pupation. — The larva enters the pupa state in Georgia about 

 the latter part of May, and appears as a perfect insect during the 

 middle of June. (Abbot & Smith.) In Texas there are two broods 

 of perfect insects, according to the dates of capture, one during 

 the entire month of April and another in July. 



Food-plants. — Gaura biennis. 



Georgia; Texas. 



Clemens. 



2. P. clarkiae Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. X, 2me ser. p. 318. 



The appearance (port) and size of P. gaurce of Georgia. Supe- 

 rior wings of an olive-green, with the extremity faintly tinted with a 

 little greenish-white and a transverse whitish, nearly straight band. 

 Inferior wings of the same yellow color as the European (Enotherge 

 with a little black border. The four wings of an olivaceous green 

 beneath, with a whitish band on the inferior wings. Body oli- 

 vaceous. 



California. 



Clemens. 



UNZELA Walker. 



Body fusiform, rather stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 

 as usual. Antennse rather slender. Abdomen much less than 

 twice the length of the thorax. Legs moderately stout; hind 

 tibiae with four rather short spurs. Wings moderately broad, not 

 long. Fore wings straight along the costa, rounded at the tips ; 

 exterior border slightly oblique, forming a very obtuse and much 



