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25. Gortyna Cerina. 



This handsome insect has the colours of Xanthia 

 Togata (Silago), but they arc transposed, the ter- 

 minal field of the fore wings being reddish purple. 

 The ground-colour is yellow, with the markings in 

 broken reddish blotches. There is a long sharp 

 tuft behind the collar ; the eyes are naked ; front 

 smooth. The head is more sunken and the costa 

 not so straight as in Xanthia as defined by Lederer. 

 Tlie female is much larger and heavier than the 

 male Cerina. This species is found from Kansas to 

 Massachusetts, where Mr. Thaxter collected the 

 male now figured. 



Gortyna Cerina, Grotc, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Thil. p. 200 (1874). 



2(). Cliariclea Triangulifer. 



This golden-yellow species was originally referred 

 by me as the type of the genus Clrrhophanus. I 

 believe that there is a slight claw concealed by the 

 vestiture of the fore tibicc, but have not clearly 

 observed it. The antennae are simple in the male, 

 scaled above, ciliate beneath, with thickened scape. 

 Eyes naked ; thorax tufted ; front roughened, tuber- 

 culate ; palpi slender, short ; legs unarmed. The 

 projected ochre-yellow lines form two sul)triangular 

 fields on the primaries, which are yellow beneath, 

 with the discal field somewhat fuscous. The species 

 is found from Ohio to Missouri, where I first saw it 

 in Professor C. Y. Riley's collections. Afterwards 

 it was sent me by several correspondents for de- 

 termination. I think it has been redescribcd by 



