Dec. 1894-1 NEUMfEGEN & DyAR. N. A. BOMBYCES. 151 



Primaries slate gray, the veins broadly lined with red. A basal, 

 discal and outer row of ovate yellow spots. The outer row consists 

 of about seven intervenular spots of varying size, the costal ones 

 largest; sometimes traces of a median lunulate, diffuse, yellow 

 band. Secondaries largely red, yellow at base and centrally along 

 costa, the gray color appearing faintly between the veins toward 

 outer margin. Expanse, 115—145 mm. 

 Habitat, Atlantic States. 



C. sepulchralis Grote &= Robinson. 



\'&bs~Cit/ierouia septilchralis GuoTE & ROBINSON. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., 



Vol. IV, p. 222. 

 Even, dark, smoky, purplish brown; basal half of secondaries 

 pinkish. On both wings obscure discal spots and outer waved, 

 darker, smoky band. Antennae testaceous. Expanse, 75 — 80 mm. 

 Habitat, Southern States. 



Genus Basilona Boisduval. 



i^b'i—Basiloiia Boisduval, Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr. (4), Vol. VIII, p. 317. 



Synopsis of races. 



Ground color yellow. 



Wing sparsely covered with blackish brown strigose dots . imperiallS. 



Wing heavily covered with such dots . . , var. punctatissima. 



Ground color deep russet ....... >'(ice noblllS. 



B. imperialis Dniry. 



1773 — A tlacHS imperialis DiiURY, 111. Ex. Ent., Vol. I, pi. 9, ff. i, 2. 



1797 — Plialwna imperatoi-ia Abbot & Smith, Lep. Ins. Ga., Vol. II, pi. 55. 



1805 — Boinhyx didyma Beauvois, Ins. Afr. Amer., p. 52, pi. 20. 



var. punctatissima A^eunnvgen. 



1S91 — Eacles imperialis n3,x. punctatissima Neumcegen, Ent. News, Vol. II, 

 p. 150. 



race nobilis Neumoigen. 



1891—^. imperialis yur. nohilis Neumcegen, Ent. News, Vol. II, p. 150. 

 Light yellow with the following marks in brownish purple. 

 Diffuse strigK on primaries, and outer part of secondaries; tibiae, 

 patagia, center of thorax, two lateral posterior patches on the 

 thorax and a dorsal band on abdomen, absent on the edges of the 

 segments and containing a row of yellow dorsal spots. On 

 primaries a broad undulate t. a. line, two discal spots and outer 

 transverse line running to apex. In the (S the t, a. line is further 



