180 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Head and thorax brownish gray. Head whitish above the eyes, palpi darker 

 l)rown. Thorax with a doable curved white line edged with brown at tip of 

 collar, another single line across the middle of tegulse and another at base : the 

 latter often indistinct. A brown dorsal spot. Abdomen a darker brownish gray, 

 dorsnm darker, and with a row of subdorsal deep brown spots each side of the 

 middle ; anal tuft brown. Primaries ashy gray, maculation brown. An indefi- 

 nite, narrow, basal transverse line ; a second more distinct, rigidly oblique : a 

 broad hand at about one-third from base, somewhat incurved inferiorly. Median 

 space evenly gray, somewhat powdery ; discal spot indefinite, somewhat paler, 

 outwaidly defined by darker scales; a broad sinuate band beyond middle, in- 

 wardly even, outwardly dentate below the middle ; below vein 6 a dusky .shade 

 extends outwardly to the pale subtermiual shade ; above this darker shade the 

 apical region is pale gray; below the apex two large lunate marginal spots, in- 

 wardly defined by a narrow white line; between veins 6 and 7, close to the lower 

 of the marginal spots, is a semi-oval brown spot, preceded by a somewhat reddish 

 yellow shade ; two faint dusky lines cross this paler space ; from the white line 

 margining the terminal lunules above described a pale, somewhat difluse shade 

 extends to the margin at the middle angle ; below the dark outward shade a 

 rather bright brown, transverse line dentate on the veins, crosses the paler space, 

 followed by a decided reddish shade. Secondaries dull reddish brown, with a 

 darker terminal band. Beneath, primaries dull fawn gray, ashy along costa ; a 

 bright red brown, rigidly oblique transverse line near margin, Beyond which the 

 space to the dark, irregular outer margin is powdered with red ; a distinct white 

 spot above vein 6 in the dark outer margin. Secondaries with the color and 

 outer margin as in primaries, but without the white spot. Expands 1.90—2.25 

 inches; 47 — 5(3 mm. 



Hdh. — Canada to Virginia ; westward to the Mississippi Valley. 



This species is by no means conunon. It is readily known by the 

 generic characters as well as the somewhat peculiar maculation. 

 Little is known of its habits, and, though the species has been quite 

 frequently bred, the larva has been described only in the most gen- 

 eral terms. 



DEIL,EPHIL,A Ochs. 

 Schmett. Eur. Band. iv. p. 42, 1816. 



Body stout, fusiform. Head of moderate size, not sunken, smoothly 

 clothed ; tongue about as long as the body ; palpi reaching to the 

 middle of the front, the tip somewhat enlarged by the vestiture. 

 Antennae subclavate, gradually enlarging outwardly to the tij), where 

 they are furnished with a little, recurved, bristly hook ; eyes mod- 

 erate in size, with distinct lashes. Thorax stout, untiifted ; the pri- 

 maries inserted well back. Abdomen untufted, conic, the tip acute, 

 tapering rather gradually in Uneata, more abruptly in chanue)ierii ; 

 hinder edge of the segments densely set Avith small spinules. Tibia; 

 not spinose, gradually increasing in size, so that the posterior is nearly 



