126 Journal Nkw York Knv. Soc. [Vol. ii. 



7'ar. rossi J^oss. 



1872 — Actids rossi Ross, Cat. Lep. Can., p. 5, (note). 

 Body white, thora.x tinged witli yellow with a broad purple 

 band behind the collar. Wings pale green, the color inhering in 

 the wing membrane and not in the vestitiire, which is white. A 

 broad costal purple band on primaries throwing out a short discal 

 band. Discal spots rounded, hyaline centrally, narrowly edged 

 with white, crimson and yellow and with black and blue inwardly. 

 Fringe tinged with crimson and yellow. The var. rossi lacks the 

 green tint. E.xpanse, 100 — 125 mm. ; length of tails, 35 — 40 mm. 



Habitat, Atlantic States southwestward to Texas. 



Genus Telea Rabncr. 



1822— Tt'Av? HunxER, Veiz. bek. Schmett., p. 154. 



T. polyphemus Cramer. 



^IIS — Attactis polypheiiins Ci^AMER, Pap. Exot., Vol. I, pi. 5, figs. A. 13. 



1764 — Bonihyx paphia LiNN.-EUS, Mas. Ulr. , p. 369. 



i?>ii—Phal(Ena. fenesti-a Perry, Arcana. 



1883 — Telea polypheimis var. ociilea Neumcecen, Pap., Vol. Ill, p. 71. 



Ocherous brown either pale or dark and reddish. Costa of 

 primaries and collar gray. Basal line on primaries reddish, dislo- 

 cated on median vein. Outer line gray, bordered with white with 

 a duplicate black costal streak bordered anteriorly with pink. 

 Discal mark round hyaline edged with a yellow and a black line. 

 Secondaries without basal line, the outer line broad. Discal mark 

 as on primaries, but situated in the outer part of a large, oval, 

 black ocellus, sprinkled with blue scales. Expanse, no — 120 mm. 



Habitat, North America throughout. 



Genus Saturn ia Schrank. 



i8c2 — Saluniia ScHRANK, Fauna Boica, Vol. II (i), p. 149. 

 1806 — Iltvcea PliiBXER, Tentamen, p. i. 

 1822? — Pavoiiia Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 157. 

 \%'ab—Calosatuniia S.vilTH, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. IX, p. 432. 



S. mendocino Behrens. 



\%-lb—Satnynia mendocino Behrens, Can. Ent., Vol. VIII, p. 149. 

 Fore wings reddish brown with blackish costa, and an apical 

 carmine shade, becoming black inwardly and centered with white. 

 Secondaries orange ochraceous shaded with black with an outer 

 diffuse black band. Discal spots round, black, containing an 

 orange ring and blue crescentic mark. Thorax reddish, collar 



