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IIliul willies with the co.stal margin l)roadly .shouldered, rounded and l)ent at the ex- 

 treme base, sliijhtly convex on the basal half, beyond nearly straight ; the outer angle a 

 little abrupt, but rounded ofl", the outer margin pretty strongly and regularly rounded, 

 scarcely angulated in the $ at the upper median nervule, the whole nuirgin slightly 

 crenulate; inner margin considerably expanded at the base, beyond a little convex, the 

 apical liaif with a broad, shallow, rounded emargination, the outer angle pretty well 

 rounded. Precostal nervure curving strongly outward ; cell closed. No androconia. 



Fore legs small, delicate, cylindrical, fringed on both sides, cither with a rather thin 

 brush of spreading hairs {$), or with only a few hairs on tiie basal half of the tibiae 

 ( $ ) ; tarsi either a little less than three-fourths the length of the tibia, composed 

 of a single joint with scarcely distinguishable subdivisions {$); or a little more 

 than three-fourths the length of the tibia, composed of four joints, readily seen 

 without denudation, the first nearly twice as long as the rest together, the others 

 nearly equal, each bearing an apical pair of very small, but rather stout and tapering 

 spines, the space between them naked; in addition the first joint bears, beneath, 

 a double roAv of vei'y small, delicate spines, and a similar spine or two occurs on the 

 under surface of the outer half of the tibia, although tibial spurs are wanting ( 5 ) . 

 Middle slightly longer than the hind tibiae, furnished on either side, beneath, and 

 on the upper portion of the inner side with rather irregular roAvs of somewhat infre- 

 quent, rather long and slender, spreading spines, the apical spines of the two inferior 

 rows developed as very long and very slender spurs ; besides these the whole upper 

 surface is sprinkled with distant spines irregularly disposed. First joint of tarsi equal 

 to the three succeeding joints together, these progressively shorter, the fourth being 

 three-fifths the length of the second, and the fifth no longer than the third ; all the 

 joints, not excepting the apical, furnished beneath with four rows of moderately long 

 and slender spines, the apical spines of each joint slightly longer than the others; 

 above, the tarsi are also clothed with similar but uniform scales, arranged, in a general 

 way, in four rows, less regularly on the basal joint. Claws rather long, delicate, 

 compressed, tapering, on the outer more rapidly than on the basal half, nearly straight 

 until close to the delicately pointed tip, where they are falciform. Paronychia simple, 

 aculiform, exceedingly delicate and slender, scarcely curved, tapering to a fine point, 

 about three-quarters the length of the claw. Pulvillus Avanting. 



Male appendages of the abdomen : upper organ rather smaller than oi'dinary, with a 

 pretty long, slender, nearly straight hook, bent downwards and foncard. Clasps 

 directed upward as well as backward, and thus resembling the Vanessidi, not very 

 long, the upper process short and broad, and developing at its upper posterior extrem- 

 ity a pretty long, recurved tooth, bearing three or four slender spines directed 

 forwai'ds. 



Egg. Sugar-loaf shaped, of similar height and breadth, squarely truncate at top, 

 furnished with very many rather coarse and equal, vertical ridges, many of which 

 unite with their neighbors or terminate near the middle, the interspaces broken by un- 

 usually distinct raised lines. 



Caterpillar at birth. The body furnished with hair-bearing papillae arranged as 

 follows : on the first thoracic segment, just before the middle, a transverse series, of 

 which four are closely crowded on the dorsal portion, the others lower down and 

 separated from them ; on the succeeding segments of the body a laterodorsal series 

 just before the middle of the segments, a laterostigmatal series in the middle of the 

 posterior half of the segments, and an infrastigmatal series in the middle of the 

 segments. 



Mature caterpillar. Head moderately small, narrower than the body. Body of 

 nearly uniform size, the first thoracic and last abdominal segments only noticea- 

 bly smaller than the others, distinctly but not strongly moniliform, dark with lighter 

 longitudinal stripes, furnished on either side with three rows of spines, one to 

 a segment in each row, namely : a distant subdorsal, a suprastigraatal and an infra- 

 stigmatal row, the last wanting -on the thoracic segments, all of equal length excepting 

 the subdorsal spines of the first segment, which are twice as long as the others and 



