NORTH AMERICAN LEl'IUOrTKKA. 189 



lyncea Clem., Jouru. Ac. N. St-. Ph. iv, 1859, 159, Pachylin ; Morr., Syu. 1862. 

 182 ; Grt., Buft". Bull, ii, 150, pr. syu. ; New List 1882? an sp. (list. 



venezuelensis Schaufuss, Nuucjuam Otiosus, i, 16, 1870; Biitl., Pr. Zool. Soc. 

 LoBd. ix, 578, pr. syn. 



Dull luteous browu, varying to brighter, paler more yellowish or reddish brown. 

 The vestiture at base of thorax is paler, more yellowish. Abdomen, laterally 

 yellowish, extending toward the dorsum at the incisures ; more distinctly so near 

 base. Primaries marked and banded with darker, smoky browu ; a large, semi- 

 oval, pale, apical patch, pointed at the costal margin and apex. Basal space 

 darker, beyond which is a transverse, sinuate and dentate line. At basal third 

 is a series of three rather obscure, not entirely parallel transverse lines, accom- 

 panied by a deeper, more reddish shade ; beyond this is another outwardly curved 

 transverse line, dentate ou the veins. From the pale apical patch a darker shade 

 extends to the middle of the outer margin making it of a triangular form. 

 Anal angle grayish. Dipcal spot distinct, with centre of ground color. Second- 

 aries dull luteous, with a black central band, a broad black outer margin, not. 

 however, reaching to the anal angle, and a narrow blackish line just above this 

 margin, often obsolete towards the margins; the little projection at anal angle is 

 pure white. Beneath uniform, rather bright reddish yellow, powdery. An extra 

 discal darker line crossing both wings, and beyond this is a series of darker 

 venular dots, also common to both wings ; between the two there is often a more 

 or less evident additional transverse line, visible only in bright specimens. Ex- 

 pands 4.25 — 5.25 inches; 1.06 — 1.30 nmi. 



Hab. — Florida, Texas, Central and South America. 



This species is really an intruder in our fauna, belonging to a 

 tropical type. It is decidedly variable in ground color, and in the 

 distinctness of the niaculation ; in dark specimens the latter is often 

 obscured and difficult to make out. The oval apical pale patch 

 however, and the yellow and black secondaries with the pure white 

 anal angle render it a form ejisy of recognition. 



It is one of the oldest known American insects. Madame Merian 

 figures it in her " Insects of Surinam," and Clerck figures it in his 

 " Icones." 



Fabricius (Syst. Ent. 540) describes the larva from the figures, and 

 says of it " larva vlrldU, flavo lineata, capite caudaque nlgris." It was 

 said to feed on the Fig. Subsequent authors seem largely to have 

 drawn their information from the same source, Boisduval, in 1874, 

 referring to Madame Merian's figure and describing the larva as 

 green, transversely striated with yellow, with the head, the first se*,^- 

 ment and the anal parts black. The horn is shoi-t and arcuated. 

 Burmeister gives a more detailed description. 



