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front ; shoulders rounded, not prominent ; keel extending beyond 

 the tip of the abdomen whose sides it embraces, with two very large 

 triangular ferruginous spots which are divided by its ridge ; tip fer- 

 ruginous, acute : breast yellow, with some pitchy spots on each side: 

 legs ferruginous ; thighs and shanks adorned with numerous yellow 

 dots, clothed with white hairs: fore-wings tawny, punctured at the 

 base and along two-thirds of the fore border where there is a colour- 

 less spot ; tips brown : hind-wings colourless ; veins ferruginous. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



16. Darnis stupida, Mas et Fem. 



Picea (mas) vel ferruginea (fem), flavo guttata ; pedes picei, Jiavo 

 guttati, subtus ferruginei ; alee limpida ; alee anticce hasi et 

 ad costamfulvce, apicefuscce. 



Plead and fore-chest of the male pitchy, of the female ferrugi- 

 nous, shining, punctured, adorned with numerous yellow dots: head 

 transverse, short, flat, slightly impressed, narrower than the fore- 

 chest, pitchy on each side in front ; hind border undulating ; fore 

 borders very slightly retuse ; face small, truncate, obconical, much 

 less than half the length of the head: fore-chest convex, indistinctly 

 ridged, concave on each side behind the shoulders which are rounded 

 and hardly prominent ; keel rounded, tapering from the base to the 

 tip which is angular and acute, extending far beyond the tip of the 

 abdomen whose sides it embraces; a narrow pale yellow spot on the 

 middle of the lower border, smaller in the male than in the female : 

 breast of the male black with yellow spots : breast of the female 

 yellow, adorned with black spots on each side : abdomen of the male 

 pitchy; hind borders of the segments yellow: abdomen of the 

 female tawny, pitchy on each side beneath : legs pitchy, adorned 

 with yellow dots, ferruginous beneath, clothed with short white hairs: 

 wings colourless ; fore-wings with brown tips, punctured and tawny 

 at the base and along part of the fore border ; veins tawny. Length 

 of the body 2| — 3^ lines ; of the wings ok — 7| lines. 



Var. /3. Fem. Spot on the lower border of the fore-chest tri- 

 angular: breast wholly yellow : legs ferruginous ; thighs tawny. 



Var. y. Fore-wings ferruginous with the exception of a colour- 

 less spot beyond two-thirds of the length of the lore border. 



a. North America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 

 b — i. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



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