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smaller on flic hack of tlic teiilli and Iwelftli, and a pair smaller on llic liack 

 of the clevenlli segment. The lenfli, eleventh, and Iwellth segments have; 

 some dark arrow-liead lines (not however qnitc meetin<j in a point) on the 

 hack margined outwardly with oehreons; sides wrinkled, especiall} in the 

 lore part of the body; belly purplish-brown, with ochrcous blotches on caeh 

 side, the claspers underneath being dark bluish-green, and the space between 

 each pair of claspers yellowish ; sometimes a lighter line dow ii the middle of 

 the lielly. It feeds on sallow, sjiinning nj) among leaves and moss when full 

 led." — (Newman's British Moths, 'JO.) 



Mr. L. W. Goodell writes me that he tbund the larva on the hazel-iuit 

 October 4, and that it measured, when fully grown, 0.90 inch in length, and 

 was of a light-gray color, variegated obscurely with darker gray and a few- 

 black points. On the back of the eighth ring was a small hump; it became 

 a pupa October 6, after spinning a thin cocoon within a folded leaf. The 

 pupa is 0.40 inch long, is light brown, tinged with greenish on the thorax. 



In the female from South Carolina, the body and wings are of a dark 

 fawn-color, with the spots and band much deeper in tone than in the males, 

 and beneath with a decided pink tinge. 



The distribution of this moth in the Old World is thus given by Slaud- 

 inger: Central and Northern Europe (excluding the polar regions) ; Piedmont ; 

 Bulgaria; Ural and Atlas Mountains ; and Amur. 



Of the otiier American species placed in this genus by M. Guenee, iV. 

 ohjirmaria belongs to the Ennomince ; N. duaria and N. hamaria are species 

 of Endropia, as I observed by an examination of the type-specimen through 

 the kindness of M. Guende. 



Desideratum. 



Numeria fritillaria Guen. — ",30""". Ailes superieures ;\ coude a peine 

 senti ; inferieures arrondies; les quatre d'un blanc-fumeux, aspergdes d'une 

 multitude stries d'un brun de bois, avec des traits terminaux noirs, et nuc 

 ombre mt^diane commune large, fondue, indccise et traversce par une serie de 

 points noirs, suivis, aux supe'rieures, de petites places blanches, dont une plus 

 large entre 2 et 3. Les memes ailes ont, en outre, les traces d'une ombre 

 extrabasilaire. Dessous Ji pen prfes semblable \ celui de Capreolariar 



I had thought this might be Ctconi pukhraria, but it is evidently an 



A nagoga. 



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