46 ZYGJENID^ AND BOMBYCIDiE 



B0MB7CID£. 

 LITHOSIINa;. 

 Genus HYPOPREPIA. Hubner. 



" Body stout, rather short, elongato-subfusiform. Head rather small. 

 Palpi stout, very much shorter than the hea^ ; third joint acuminated, 

 not half the length of the second. Tongue short. Ab- 

 domen oblanceolate, not extending quite so far as the 

 ^J^^^=^ hind wings. Legs moderately stout ; hind tibiae with 

 two minute apical spurs. Wings moderately broad, not 

 long. Primaries slightly convex in front ; the hind 

 angle somewhat rounded ; first and second inferior veins almost con- 

 tiguous at the base ; third about eight times nearer to the second than 

 to the fourth." Clemens, Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 303. 



I.-HYPOPREPIA FITCOSA. (Pi. 2, fig. 12.) 



Hypoprepia fucosa, Hlibn., Zutr. Dritt. Hand., p. 21, figs. 471, 472. 



(1825.) 

 Liihosia miniata, Kirby, Fauna, Bor. Amer., pi. 4, p. 305. (1837.) 

 Gnophria vittata, Harr., Rt. Ins., Mass., p. 241. (1841.) 

 Hypoprepia fucosa, Walk., B. M. Cat. Lep., p. 487. (1854.) 

 Liihosia miniata, Walk., B. M. Cat. Lep., p. 512. (1854.) 

 Atolmis tricolor, Fitch, Third Report. Ins. N. Y., p. 168. (1856.) 

 Atobnis? miniata, Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., p. 544. (i860) 

 Gnophria vittata, Morris, Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 256. (1862.) 

 Hypoprepia fucosa, Clem., Syn. Lep. N. Am. App. , p. 303. (1862.) 

 Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil., vol. 3, p. 98. 



5 . ? . — Palpi pale reddish, tips black. Head, thorax, and patagia 

 scarlet, sometimes inclining to yellowish. Abdomen lead color, scar- 

 let at the base and tip, and with a broad ventral streak of the same 

 color. 



Primaries lead color, narrowly margined on the costa and outer 

 margin, and also on the basal three-fourths of the inner margin with 



