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cliaui^tiil III ii chivsiilis witlidut in;ikiiig n c-ocoon. The cliry.sali.s was also 

 o-reen with a row of black dots on each side. The inotii appeared August 

 10th." According to a MS. drawing of Abbot's, the body is very slender and 

 cylindrical, smooth, somewhat thickened on the end of the abdomen. Head 

 no wider than the body; it is reddish, while the body is grass-green, with 

 no markings. Food-plant, Helenlum autumnale. 



NEMORIA Hiibner. Plate 4, figs. S. Sr/. ■ 



Nemoria Hribn., Verz., as.'i, ISIS. 



fleometra Treits. (in iiiirt), Sclim. Eur., v, 430, 182."). 



Hanilhca Diip. (in iwrt), Lep. France, viii (iv), 9;!;!, 1829. 



(Uomeint Boisd., Gen. Ind., 179, 1840. 



Cidorochroma Dup., Cat., 224, 1844. 



(innuitra H.-Sch , Sebni. Knr., iii, 7, 1847. 



Nemoria LeUcrcr, Verli. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wien, 189, 1853. 



Gnen. (in part), Pbal., i, :!4r>, 1857. 



Walk, (in part). List Lep. Hct. Br. Mns., xxii, 531, IHGl. 



Head rather wide in front, wider than in Eucrofttis, not narrowing much 

 in front. Palpi slenderer than in Eiicrosth, a little npcurved, passing a little 

 beyond the front. Male antenuif simple. Fore wings triangular; costa 

 regularly arched : apex slightly produced, acute. Hind wings distinctly 

 analed on the outer edi^e. In the venation, it onlv difl\'rs from Eucrostis 'm 

 the subcostal cell being always closed. Hind legs long and slender; tarsia 

 little more than half as long as the tibijt ; a single pair of tibial spurs. 

 Abdomen long and slender, ending in a regular ])encil of hairs. Coloration 

 green. 



This pretty genus differs from Ei/cr/K^/is,\v\t\i which some of the species 

 have been contbiinded, by the angular hind wings and the simple antennas. 

 The species are of small size, delicate and graceful, ami usually green, or 

 green with an ochreous tinge and reddish fringe. The species fly in June 

 in o])en fields neai" pine-woods. 



iSi//wj>sis of the Sj>ecies. 



Yellow- above and beneath jV. subcroccata. 



Dull sea-green ; liiiid wings with line curved A', (jrutata. 



Larger than fjriilulu, with line on hind wing bent rectangularly X. pislaciata. 



Nemokia subckoceata Walker. Plate lU, fig. 78. 



Xemoria xubcrocala Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxvi, 1557, 1802. 

 Nemoria iiwcrluta W.alk., Li.st Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxvi, l.'i57, ISCW. 



f) i and 1 9. — Shape of the wings as in A", gialuta. Bright oclireou.s, 

 including the body and wings, antennae and legs. Head white on the 



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