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cuous, testaceous annules surrounded by a pale areola. First pair of 

 legs black, others color of body; the claws fulvo-testaceous. Length 

 of body, 35 mm. ; breadth of body, 5.6 mm. ; of head, 4.5 mm. ; of first 

 segment, 3 mm. 



" Chrysalis. — Color of anterior parts whitey brown, darkest toward 

 head, of the abdomen sordid yellow brown ; all the prominences of the 

 head are marked with minute papillae clustered into black patches ; 

 similar black or blackish fuscous papillae are scattered irregularly and 

 sparsely over the thorax, sparsely and with considerable regularity over 

 the abdomen, being arranged very largely in transverse lines; each 

 gives rise to a short brown bristle, mixed with some piceous ones ; 

 these bristles are stout, equal, truncate ; prothoracic spiracles black- 

 brown, shining; cremaster fusco-castaneous. Length, 21 mm.; breadth, 

 6 mm." 



Habitat.— \\\. ; Wise. ; Miss. Valley to Gulf of Mexico ; 

 Nashville, Tenn., July 16th; Glenside, Pa., May 29th. 



Eudamus (Rliabdoides) cellus Bd.-Lec, pi. 73, 1833.* 



" Expanse of wings from 1.9 to 2 inches. Upper surface dark black- 

 ish brown ; fore wings crossed by a broad continuous yellow band, 

 beginning near the middle of the costa and ending in a point near the 

 posterior angle, bending inward a little here towards the hind margin. 

 From costa to the lower branch of the median the band is of nearly 

 uniform width, but the rest of the distance it tapers a little. The inner 

 edge is nearly straight, but the outer sends out an angle just below the 

 end of the cell. Three-fourths of the distance from the base, extend- 

 ing from the costa back, is a short anteapical line composed of three 

 quadrate coalescing yellow spots, and a small dot next the outer lower 

 corner of the third spot. Hind wings without marks, except a little 

 yellowish at the apex. Fringes black or blackish, with a few gray or 

 whitish spots between the veins. Underside of fore wings the same as 

 the upper, except that the hind margin is gray, the apical half of the 

 outer margin reddish brown, aud the costal portion of the mesial band 

 and anteapical line paler yellow. Hind wings dark purplish brown, 

 with three irregular, somewhat poorly defined, darker brown bands, 

 and a very slight sprinkling of buii" scales. Along the outer margin is 

 a series of deep brown lunules surrounded by scattering pale blue 

 scales. Body black, underside of palpi and head pale ochraceous." 



This species is a very well defined one, and may be known 

 at once by the golden band across the fore wings. 



Habitat. — West Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico : Texas ; 

 Arizona ; Mexico; Putta on the Pacific Slope, Colima, Milpos 



* Godm.-Salvin, Biol. Cent.-Amer., 2, 331, 1893, t. 80, f. 8. 

 Festus Hub., Zutr. Ex. Schmelt., figs. 907, 908, 1837. 



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