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EuASPiLATES spiNATARiA Packard. 



JCuaspilahi, spinulmiu Pack., Sixth Ui]>. Poali. Acad. Sc, 4.">, 1874. 



1 (?. — Body and wings pure white. Fore wings with 

 four pale clay-brown, oblique lines, the basal very oblique 

 and extending along the inner side of the subcostal vein a 

 iCiiaspiiatis sphiataria. fhii'd of the length of the wing. The second line half- 

 way between the ba.sal and the third, and half as wide as third, embracing 

 till' (lark, discal, linear spot. Fourth line marginal; t>inge white on Itoth 

 wings. Hind wings pure white, with a small, dark, discal dot, and a narrow 

 ])ale-l)r(Avu lin<' alouij; the edge. Beneath as above, but with the lines much 

 lainter. and with l()ur distinct discal dots. 



Lenglli of body, 0.40; of tore wing, 0.54; expanse oi' wings, Llfi 

 inches. 



Colorado Territory (A. K. Grote, Mus. Peab. Acad. Sc). 



This very interesting form may be recognized by the full bulging head, 

 the short palpi and stout spines on the base of the fore tibia', and by the 

 white wings, with the four peculiar, pale-brown, broad bands on the anterior 



'*'"' ASPILATES Treitschke. Plate 2, fig. 3. 



Krastria Hiibn., Saninil. Exot. Sclini., IbOfi. 



Surrhodiu Hiibii., Ziitr., :i71,37->; Vcrz., 300, 1818. 



Percoiila Hiibii. (in pait), Verz., Ud6, 1818. 



CaUqnjrrha Hiibu., Verz., 3:!0, 1818. 



" F.iisarm lliibn., f), v, 40, 1823." 



AspUalvs Trcits., SVbm. Kiir., vi (i), 12(i, 1827. 



Stepb., in., iii, 207, 18:!1. 

 " ParaUIhi Sudoil., Bull. S. I. Mosc, 17, 1837." 

 AspUatcs Boi.sd. (iii p.irt), Gen. lud., 187, 1840. 



H.-Scli., Schiii. Eur., iii, 93, 1847. 



Stepb.,Cat. Brit.Lep., 181, 18.'i0. 



Lederer, Verb. Bol. Zool. Ges. Wieii, 238, 1853. 



(Jueu., Plial., ii, 180, 1857. 

 Catopi/rrha Walk., List Lcp. Het. Br. Mus., xxiv, 10(14, 18()2. 

 A«]iihil<-9 Walk., List Lcp. Br. Mns., xxiv, 1005, 1802. 



In this genus, the male ant(>nn;e an; usually heavily pectinated, the head 

 sc|uare in front, and the ])alpi very long and acute, porrect. The'fore wings 

 are short and broad, triangular; costa .straight, or curved; apex rectangular, 

 not tiilcate. Hind wings rounded at the apex, outer edge full and rounded. 

 Veualion : three short sid)costal venules; one subcostal cell. Hind legs: 

 male hind tibi;e somewhat swollen ; tarsi two-thirds as long as the tibiiv. 

 Abdomen rather long and slender. C()lorali(ni : usually ])ale, with from one 



