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angiilalfd in tlie siiinewiiv. Venation: tiie costal region is very narrow; the 

 costal vein anastomoses witli the subcostal vein; there is no subcostal cell; 

 the anterior discal venule is short and regularly curved, the posterior one 

 very obhque. • The hind tibiee are but slightly swollen, the tibiae large, long, 

 and thick. Coloration : either deep ochreous, with the basal and extradiscal 

 lines more or less obsolete, or white [subsignariu) and immaculate. 



This genus is readily distinguished by the full, hairy, projecting front, 

 the long, porrect palpi, the heavily-pectinated male antennae, those of the 

 female being also pectinated, l)y the deeply-scalloped wings, and the hairy 

 body. 



Larva. — The body is rather thick; head laige and round; a spine in 

 the middle and near the end of the body ; sometimes the body is thickest 

 near the end of the body. Pupae pale in color, situated between leaves. 



Si/nopsix of (he Species. 



Pure white ; wings entire E. sutsignaria. 



Oclireons-yellow ; wiugs entire E. almaria. 



EuGONiA SUBSIGNARIA Packard. Plate 12, fig. 29; plate 13, fig. 1, larva. 



Endalimia sithsigmiiia Hiibn., Samml. Exot. Schm., ii, 1806. 

 Eiiiivmos subsiynuihi Ouen., Plial., i, 181, 1807. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Brit. Mns., xx, 2 09, 1860. 

 Giomctra mveosericearia Jones, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., 1, 31, 1861. 

 Eiiiiamos aidDsiyiiarkt Pack., (inide to Study of Insects, 321, fig. 248; pi. 8, fig. 6, larva, 1869. 



4 J and 2 9. — Wings entire in the male, in the female dentate. Entire 

 body and legs unilonnly snow-white, x^ntennse with white scales; pectina- 

 tions testaceous. 



Length of body, i, O.GO, 9, U.60 ; of foie wing, c^, O.GO-72, 9, 0.83; 

 expanse of wings, l.(J0-1.7U inches. 



At once known by the snow-white body and wings, angulated fore 

 wings, and notched hind wings. 



London, Canada (Saunders); Northern Maine, August (Packard); 

 Salem, Mass. (Emerton) ; Campton, N. H., August (Walker) ; Albany, N. Y, 

 (Lintner and Meske) ; New York City (James Kimball); West Farms, 

 N. Y. (Angus) ; "Nova Scotia" (Walker). 



Larva. — The caterpillar closely resembles the twigs of the elm-trees, 

 on lh<; leaves ol' which it live.s, the body being brown, while the large head 

 and terminal segment of the body is briolit red. A writer in the "Practical 

 Entomologist" (vol. i, p. .i")?) states that the caterpillars are hatched as soon as 



