2^1 



llmscof Eu/idoni(i iinln/drid xwnv than :iiiv kIIiit species: Iml the liiiid w iiijjj.s 



nre more iiiollled with Itiowii, and there are tliree distinct lines; it may also 



he identified l)y the foiked, white, ^snhmarli;inal liand seiidiiiii; (uie division 1(» 



the costa and another to tlie apex. If seems to be rather inlVecpient, and lias 



not yet occurred soutli of New Enghmd. It flies in the same loralilies with 



EiiJidoiiHi notdtar'ia as early as tin; middle of" June in Maine, and liir the rest 



of the month. 



CAR1IM':TA WalUer. I'late 2. tii-. 15. 



Ciiiipeta Walk., List hep. Iltt. Hi. Mils., xxvi, ir.-.i4, Hli-J. 



I'nriiuKimon Viick., New :iii<l littli' Isiiowii Insects, Rep. Mass. Itoaid Aj;., I'l, 1S7(|. 



Male antenna' well pectinated, almost pUunose: front rather narrow; 

 verte.K square. Palpi very short and thick, scarcely j)assing l)eyon(l the front. 

 Fore wings with the costa .straight; the apex slightly pointed ; outer edge 

 oblique; hind wing.s well rounded, the outer edge moderately full. Veiuitioni 

 costal vein anastomosing with the suhcostal near tin- iniddleot the inn(^r, 

 small, lozenge-shaped subcostal cell; outer cell long and narrow; third sul)- 

 co.stal branch very shoit. tlie apical cell l)einii- small. Discal venules trans- 

 verse, not oblique. Abdomen unusually stout, not very long. The coloration 

 is peculiar; the two species ditlering remarkably in this respect; in ('. 

 (livisaria, the ground-color being vyhite, with a broad, lirown, median i)aud; 

 and in C. atigustiorata, a rich, deep, yellow-ochreous, with white bands. 



i^j/nopsis of the Species. 



Wliite, with a V)ri)\vu, middle band, iuclo.siug a large, white, di.scal .spot C. iVmsaria, 



Velio w-ochreoiis, with three white hands C. tmynsHorariu. 



Caripeta divisaria "Walker. Plate !t, fig. 51. 



Caripeta divixata W^alk. !! !, List Lep. Hel. Br. Mus., .\.\vi, irr.T), ls(i-J. 



6 t? and 1 9. — Antennye moderately and closely pectinated, rather dark. 

 Palpi not reaching as far as the front; fore wings with costa a little convex. 

 Body and wings whitish-gray, peppered with fine dark scales. Fore wings 

 dark at the base, being densely mottled witii dark brown. A broad, middle, 

 dark band nearly twice as wide on the costa as on the inner edge; it is black 

 on the edges, lighter in the middle, with waved black strigse, and incloses a 

 large, oblong, oval, white spot; on the inside, the band is curved inward 

 toward the middle of the wing, and is siinious in ifs course; it is bordered 

 externally with a liroad white band. The outer side of (he nu'sial band is 

 oblifjue. with deep, incirular scallops: then^ an; three scallops on the costal 



