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PRELIMINARY REVISION OF THE BOMBYCES 

 OF AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO. 



By B. Neumcegen and Harrison G. Dvar. 



(Continued from page 76.) 



P. geminata Packard. 



1864 — Packaidia geminata Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. Ill, p. 343. 



Marked exactly as in albipunctata but with paler secondaries 

 and the shading on primaries usually less extensive. Expanse, 

 26 mm. 



Habitat, Northern Atlantic States. Probably not different 

 from the following. 



P. albipunctata Packard. 



1864 — Packardia albipunctata Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. Ill, p. 3-14. 

 1880 — Packardia goodcUii Grote, Can. Ent., Vol. XII, p. 242. 



var. ocellata Grote. 



1865 — Packardia ocellatq Gkote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. IV, p. 322. 



Ground color white ; three brown bands, the inner two oblique, 

 parallel ; the third running in a reverse direction from costa to 

 internal angle where are two or three superposed silvery white 

 spots. The wing is more or less obscured by ocherous and 

 chocolate brown shadings, though the ground color appears at the 

 apex ; secondaries blackish. Expanse, 23 — 27 mm. 



Habitat, Northern Atlantic States, 



Family LAGOID^E. 



Synopsis of genera. 



Vein I of primaiies branched. 



Veins 3 and 4 of secondaries stalked ..... Carama. 



Veins 3 and 4 arising separately ..... Megalopyge. 



Vein I of primaries iinbranched. 



Antennae longer than thorax ; body robust .... Eupoeya. 



Antennce very short ; primaries with accessory cell . . Dalcerides. 



Genus Carama Walker. 



1855— C(?;vi;«rt Walker, Cat. Brit. Miis., pt. IV, p. 843. 

 ■i'i,^%—Mallatodes)Ha Wallengren, Nat. Akad. Hand!., Vol. XV, p. 212. 

 \%t^,— Ulosota Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. Ill, p. 524. 



