110 PAPERS BY DR. B. CLEMENS. 



[Extracted from the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia for May, 1860, pp. 156—174.] 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN LEPIDOPTEROLOGY.— No. 4. 



BY BRACKENRIDGE CLEMENS, M.D. 



► Limacodidce. 



[The first five pages are devoted to descriptions of Macro- 

 Lepidoptera, viz. : — 



Saturnia galbina, 



Pimela lanuginosa, 



Limacodes laticlavia, 



Aduneta voluta, 



Empretia stimulea, 



E. poenulata, 



Nochelia tardigrade/., 



Attacus splendida, 



Hyper compa interrupto-marginata.J 



TlNEINA. 



Anorthosia. 



Anterior wings rather narrow, and somewhat lanceolate. 

 The subcostal nervure is nearly straight, and gives off from 

 the disk, which is unclosed, three marginal nervules and 

 becomes bifid before the tip. The discal nervule is indepen- 

 dent. The median is four-branched, its last nervule is bifid, 

 and arises opposite the middle of the origins of the second 

 and third subcosto-marginals. The submedian is bifid at its 

 base. 



Hind-wings somewhat emarginate behind the tip on the 

 external margin, and rather deeply emarginate beneath the 

 tip. Disk unclosed. Subcostal nervure bifid from the end 



