DESCRIPTION. 



Body when recent, light olivaceous-green: 

 head dark ferruginous above: eyes dark- brown, 

 with a moveable black pupil : mouth pale : neck 

 light-green, with a brown, transverse, hirsute 

 collar on the middle: thorax dark ferruginous, 

 hairy, blackish each side: feet pale: superior 

 wings dull ferruginous, with numerous opake, 

 transverse, abbreviated, black lines; a small 

 black point at the inner basal angle, and a small 

 transverse, abbreviated dusky line on the inner 

 margin, a little beyond the middle; inferior 

 wings light honey-yellow, a blackish, dilated, 

 angulated, semifasciate line near the tip, and a 

 black, anterior spot near the inner margin :^ecto 

 pale-brownish. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



This species frequently occurs in various parts 

 of the United States. It is an inhabitant of 

 Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, and I also found 

 specimens near the falls of the Ohio river; and 

 another was sent to me by Dr. T. W. Harris, 

 of Massachusetts. A variety in my cabinet, is 



PLATE 44. 



