Sept. 1894.1 NrIIM(F.(:EN & DvAR. N. A. BOMllVCRS. 12B 



(reniis Samia liuhner. 



1822? — Samia HUliNEK, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 156. 



1865 — Platysainia Groik, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. V, p. 229. 



Synopsis of species. 



General color grizzled-gray. 



-Size large, discal spots moderately produced. 



Outer band of wings bright red ..... Cecropi. 



Outer band dull purplish, obscure gloveri, 



Size small, discal spots rounded, slightly produced . . COlumbi. 



General color reddish, scarcely giay ...... rubr. 



S. cecropia Liniuvus. 



175S — BoJiibyx cecropia LtNN.-EUS, Syst. Nat., Vol. I, p. 447. 



Blackish, irrorate with white on costal part of primaries. 

 Thorax red, collar white. Abdomen banded with black, white and 

 red. Transverse bands white, the inner faint and absent on secon- 

 daries, the outer succeeded by a broad red band. Discal spots 

 white bordered with red and black. Outer margins broadly clay- 

 colored, paler sub-terminally with a narrow sinuate sub-terminal 

 black line on primaries. A series of large black spots in the inter- 

 spaces between veins 2 — 5. A large oval black ocellus between 

 veins 6 — 7, succeeded above by a purplish shade and zigzag whitish 

 line. On secondaries, a series of sub-terminal black spots and 

 a line. Expanse, 120 — 150 mm. 



Habitat, Atlantic States. 



S. gloveri Strccker. 



1872 — Platysainia gloveri '$>-v\iv.CYiv.v., I.ep. Roph. et. Ilet., Vol. I. 



var. reducta Netinnvgen. 



1891 — Platysaniia gloveri var. reducta Neumcegen, Ent. News, Vol. II, p. 152. 



Exactly like eolitinbia, but as large as cecropia. The discal dots 

 are produced as in cecropia, but lack the red edge. T. a. band 

 arcuate as in Columbia. There is a purplish shade beyond the white 

 band, not present in coluiiibia. Expanse, 125 mm. 



Habitat, Arizona to the Rocky Mountains and Montana. 



var. reducta. Smaller than the typical form with the discal 

 spot of primaries touching the p. t. band. Expanse, 83 — 85 mm. 



Habitat, Mountains of Colorado, 11,000 feet. 



S. Columbia SmitJi. 



1S65 — Samia Columbia Sj.nTH, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. IX, p. 343. 



