OF NORTH AMERICA. 191 



ground color of the wings appears beyond this line over the apex, and 

 forms an inconspicuous spot at the internal angle. The space included 

 between the lines is paler than the rest of the wing, appearing as if 

 washed with whitish, which latter shade seems to be spread outwardly 

 from the median line. Secondaries very dark wood brown, immacu- 

 late. Fringes ocherous. Beneath ocherous brown, a little clearer 

 colored along the costa. Head, thorax and appendages ocherous 

 brown ; abdomen a little darker. 



Var. a. — A specimen has the lines of the primaries above obsolete ; 

 the white shading is prominently expressed and leaves as usual the 

 apex and a Smaller space at the internal angle free. " (G. & R. loc. cit.) 



Expanse of wings, o. 90 inch ; leiigth of body, o. 3 5 inch. 



Habitat. — South Carolina (Zimmerman, coll. Mus. Berol. ) Texas 

 (Belfrage, coll. Stretch, Edwards. ) 



The specimens above referred to from Texas, agree with the descrip- 

 tion quoted, except in the pale color of the secondaries, which can 

 scarcely be called dark, being somewhat paler than the basal half of 

 the primaries, and the nearly complete obsolescence of the spot at the 

 anal angle of the anterior wings. These differences are not sufficient 

 to warrant their separation specifically. 



"Longer than 'L. /asciola, H.-S. , and at once distinguishable by 

 the paler color and straighter median line of the fore wings above. 

 The palpi are prominent, as in L. /asciola, and the wings similarly 

 shaped. L. rectilinea appears to us intermediate between L. biguttata, 

 Packard, ox x^iihex L.y-inversa, Packard, and L. f asciola, and to evi- 

 dence the position of the latter as belonging to this genus. " G. & R. 

 loc. cit. 



The specimens received from Mr. Belfrage were taken in May, and 

 according to that gentleman the insect is frequently attracted by lights, 

 in company with the other small Cochlidiince found in the same neigh- 

 bourhood. 



2.-LITHAC0DES FASCIOLA. (PL 8. fig. u, $ .) 



Limacodes /asciola, H.-S., Lep. Exot. sp. Ser. I., fig. 186. (1854.) 

 Lima codes /asciola. Walker, Cat. Lep. B. M. V., p. 1148. (1855.) 

 Limacodes laticlavia, Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., p. 157. 



(i860.) 

 Limacodes {P) /asciola, Morris, Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 127. (1862.) 

 Limacodes laticlavia, Morris, Syn. Lep. N. Am. p. 128. (1862.) 



