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ends. Posterior wings blackish-brown, grayish towards the base 



and the inner border, and sometimes faintly grayish in the middle. 



Pennsylvania ; Connecticut ; Massachusetts. 



Clemens. 



5. S. kalmiae Abbot <5' Stnith. Figured in Sm. Abb. 1, pi. 37. 



Head and thorax ferruginous brown, paler on the sides; tegulge 

 with a central and upper black line, metathoracic patches black. 

 Abdomen ferruginous brown with a central black line and alter- 

 nate whitish and black derai-bands. Anterior wings ferruginous 

 brown, paler in the middle, with two oblique blackish streaks at 

 the base of inner margin and very oblique ferruginous streaks from 

 the costato disk; a pale streak in post-apical interspace, margined 

 on each side with ferruginous, and ferruginous and brownish streaks 

 in the remaining interspaces, with a whitish line near the margin 

 edged above with blackish ; discal spot small and ferruginous ; 

 fringes reddish-brown. Posterior wings brownish-white, with a 

 broad central and terminal black band ; exterior margin reddish- 

 brown and fringes of the same hue. 



Mature Larva. Head green, with a lateral black stripe. Body 

 fine pale green, deepening on the sides, with pale yellow, lateral, 

 oblique bands edged above with black, which is again bordered 

 with pale blue ; first and second prolegs with a black spot on the 

 sides; stigmatae orange-yellow; shield and terminal prolegs dotted 

 with numerous brown dots on a pale brownish patch ; caudal horn 

 blue, but thickly covered with black tubercles. Length about 

 tliree inches. 



Pupation. The larval transformation is subterranean. The pupa 

 dark-brown ; the tongue-case half as long as the breast and ap- 

 plied to it, with the extremity bulbous?. The larva enters the pupa 

 state during the latter part of August or in September, and ap- 

 pears as an imago in the following June or early in July. 



Food-plants. I have found the larva nearly full grown on the 

 lilac about the middle of July. Also feeds on the leaves of Kal- 

 mia latifolia. {Abbot & Smith. ) 



Canada ; New York ; Pennsylvania ; Massachusetts ; Georgia. 



Clemens. 



