170 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



edges of teguliE above and beneath margined by white lines. A 

 metathoracic spot on each side, and the middle of the abdominal 

 segments tinged with dark buff, with the hind margins of the seg- 

 ments dark green from the base to the middle and thence to the 

 tip reddish-brown. Anterior wings slightly ferruginous at the 

 base, with narrow olive-green and dull white bands, the latter 

 slightly tinged with ferruginous, arising at the inner margin of the 

 base and curving to the costa from the basal portion of the disk 

 to beyond the origin of post-apical nervule ; an oblique whitish 

 apical line with an olive-green patch adjoining and before it, in the 

 post-apical interspace, and the line edged with olive-green in the 

 apical interspace. Hind wings rust colored, with an indistinct, 

 greenish terminal margin. Under surface of anterior wings pale 

 sulphureous; toward the base pale ferruginous, with an olive streak 

 along the costa from the base widening toward the tip. Posterior 

 wings olive-green powdered with white at the base. 

 Massachusetts. 



Clemens. 



Group II. 



Proboscis moderately long. Wings long, rather narrow. Fore 

 wings slightly acuminated, convex in front toward the tips ; exte- 

 rior border slightly convex, very oblique ; interior border slightly 

 concave from half its length to the interior angle. Hind wings 

 hardly acuminated. 



5. D. rhodocera Walker, p. 184. 



Fawn color, paler beneath. Sides of the head and of the thqrax 

 whitish. Antenna? rose color above. Abdomen paler than the 

 thorax, .with a blackish spot on each side at the base. Fore wings 

 with a cinereous tinge, with an oblique exterior line, with a brown- 

 ish discal dot, and with two diffuse ferruginous spots, one in front, 

 the other behind; cilia3 ferruginous. Hind wings blackish, whitish 

 about the interior angle ; cilia? mostly whitish. Length of the 

 body n lines; of the wings 36 lines. 



St. Domingo. 



Clemens. 



