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raedio-posterior interspace and those adjoining it, powdered with 

 whitish roseate behind the band. Hind margin luteo-testaceous, 

 with a row of black spots and a dark brown line. 



Texas. 



Clemens. Proc. A. N. S. for 1860, p. 160. 



CERATOCAMPA Harris. 



Body thick. Proboscis short, hardly visible. Palpi very short, 

 not exceeding as far as the head. Antennce a little shorter than 

 the thorax. Legs stout, rather long, hind tibise with two very 

 minute apical spurs. Wings rather long, moderately broad. Fore 

 wings acuminated, very slightly convex in front ; exterior border 

 almost straight, very oblique ; second inferior vein twice or more 

 than four times further from the third than from the first. Male. 

 Antennas deeply pectinated, merely serrated for more than one- 

 third of the length from the tips. Female. Antennse simple. 



(The name of the genus is founded on the character of the larva, 



that being armed with horns.) 



C. B. M. 



1. C. regalis Fah. F. regia Sm. Abb. Laocoon Cram. Figured in Sm. 

 Abb. p. 121, pi. 61. Nat. Lib. XXXVII, p. 161, pi. 18. L. Drury, 

 pi. 9. 



Antennae pectinated half their length, and setaceous at the end ; 

 head orange-red ; thorax same color, with a yellow band in front, 

 extending round each side, and two longitudinal broad yellow lines 

 on the top ; abdomen red, with a yellow band across each segment 

 except the last. Superiors olive, with about six large yellow spots 

 in a series crossing them, the two largest near the tip; two or 

 three other irregular yellow spots further towards the base ; two 

 yellow spots at the base ; nervures thick and red. Inferiors orange- 

 red, with largQ irregular patches of yellow and a series of six or 

 seven olive-colored sagittate spots between the veins towards the 

 anal angle. The under side of the superiors is yellow at the base, red 

 in the centre, and olive on the margin. The series of yellow spots 

 and the red nervures similar to the upper side. Under side of 

 inferiors bright yellow, with a red spot in the centre. A pale red 

 transverse band which expands and covers the whole of the outer 



