514 



oliel's figure. In the i'eniale, the ooinmon hue is straight and not doubled, 

 and (he wings are speckh'd with (hirk Idotches. 



The t()urth of Walker's tyjies of this species is a Selenia. 



Lama. — "The caterpillar lives on the oak and other trees. It is of a 

 testaceous gray, with a dorsal lozenge-like mark. The fourtii segment is 

 deeper-colored, and on the baek of the 8th, !)th, and 10th, are also two 

 obscure marks bifid anteriorly on the first, and carrying a blackish angle 

 (arete) on each extremity of the second. Tiie head and feet are concolorous. 

 It is found in j\Iay and June, and tlie moth is disclosed towards the end of 

 this last month. A second generation spins (./?/<') toward the middle of July 

 to appear as moths in the beginning of August." — (Guen^e.) This description 

 is prol)ably taken from figures of Abbot or of LeConte drawn in Georgia. 

 In the Northern States, the species is undoubtedly only single-brooded. 



Endropia efkectaria Walker. Plate 12, figs. 22, 24. 



Eiidropiii rffcckiria Walk., Can. Nat., v. 2(i0, IHCO ; Liat Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxvi, 1504, 1862. 



4 (/■ and 5 9 . — In its form and the cut of the serrated wings closely resem- 

 bling serratarin, ])ut the wings, while being scarcely more acutely pointed, are 

 more deeply serrated, especially on the l)ind wings, which appear as if deeply 

 slit in some specimens. Deep fawn-color with black specks, frosted with 

 gray on the body and the costa of the fore wings, as well as on the basal half 

 of both wings ; being darker brown than usual (rubbed specimens with an 

 ochreous tinge). The base of the wings but little paler than the border. 

 Antennae deeply pectinated ; palpi long, paler at tip. Fore wings with a 

 basal, dark-ferruginous, narrow line, a little curved, just beyond an oblique 

 dark shade, straight, and extending on to the hind wing, forming the basal 

 line of the wing (the inner line varies in being sometimes very diffuse, 

 and the outer, oblique, straight shade is usually rubbed oif the fore wing). 

 Outer common line usually darker than the border of the wing beyond, 

 oblique, often sinuate, and on the hind wings doubled in the middle of the 

 wing, the inclosed portion being lanceolate-oval. A row of paler spots often 

 extends from the apical pale patch to just within the inner angle (this row 

 often obsolete), soini^times present on the hind wings. Fore wings acutely 

 falcate, with six or seven obtuse teeth, two behind the median bend, the male 

 being nearly as acutely serrated as the female, and with the fore wings and 

 apex nearly as acutely ])ointed. In the liind wings, the teeth in the male are 



