5 2 LEPIDOPTERA. 



We have two species which may readily be distinguished. 



A. Fore wings drab clouded with smoky-black, two black 

 arrow-heads in the subterminal line. C. exolcta. 



A 2 . Fore wings reddish-drab clouded with red-brown, a 

 long black streak from the reniform stigma to the 

 subterminal line. C. vctusta, 



1. C. exoleta, L. — Expanse 2\ to 2 J inches. Fore wings 

 very long, bluntly pointed, drab, broadly clouded toward the 

 dorsal margin with smoky-brown, orbicular stigma irregularly 

 clouded or divided with black ; reniform large, clouded 

 and edged with black ; beyond it are two slender black 

 arrow-heads before the hind margin. Hind wings smoky- 

 brown. 



Antenna3 of the male long, stout and notched toward the 

 basal portion, ciliated, and every notch tufted with minute 

 bristles, light brown ; palpi short and thick, broadly tufted 

 and blunt in front, chestnut-brown, almost concealed among 

 dense masses of short, thick, blunt, black hair-scales ; eyes 

 naked, olive-brown, spotted with black ; lashes black, those 

 at the back curled over ; head evenly rounded and unusually 

 blunt in front, lower portion black shaded with red -brown, 

 above this is an angulated umbreous line beneath the 

 antennas, on the upper surface the scales are divided into 

 two large yellow-brown masses, and at the base of each 

 antenna is a separate socket-like tuft, black above, brown 

 below ; collar very large, front portion yellow-brown, top and 

 back portion dark purple-brown ; rest of thorax much squared, 

 and having a raised pale drab epaulet at each shoulder, the 

 lappets and dorsal portion reddish-black and having a small 

 central deeper black divided crest ; back of the thorax 

 brownish-drab, the scales drawn together into a flattened 

 crest, which is tipped with black ; fascicles dirty-white ; 

 abdomen broad and flattened, yet rounded up in the middle, 

 basal segments covered with long yellowish-white hair-scales 

 which shade into pale purple-brown in the middle segments 



