ARCTONOTUS LUCIDUS. Boisduval. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 2 meSL-r. X, p. 319 |1852l. „ . „ t x- . 



Walker C B M Vol. VIII, p. 26.5 (1856i. Clemens, .Inl. Acad. X;it. So., Plui., p. 188 (18./J). Morris, Syn. Lep. N. Am., 



p. 217 (1862). Grote <0 Eohlnmn, Proo. Ent. Soc, Pl.il., Vol. V, p. 169 (1865) ; List Lep. X. Am., p. 3 (1868). Grote, Bull. 

 Biift'. Soc, Vol. I, p. 17 (1873', Vol. IF, p. 225 ilS7o!. 



(PLATE XIII, FIG. 7.) 



Ex])aiuls If — 1| inches. 



Bodv olive green, tegulte edged with wliitish, antennae stout and heavily serrated. 



Upper surface, primaries same colour as body, crossed by two irregular, not very conspicuous, flesh-col- 

 oured bands, which connect at the inner margin ; the middle of the.se bands is dull purplish; the space be- 

 tween these bands, and also the basal space, is darker than the marginal part of wing. 



Secondaries pinkish, a sub-marginal wine-red band, a purplish-black anal mariv ; fringes pale yellowish- 



" Under surface olivaceous, inclining a little to reddish on inner half of primaries ; devoid of ornamenta- 

 tion. 



Hab. Oregon ; Mus. Behr., Hy. Edwards, Strecker. 



To mv friend ofnianv vears, Ilenrv Edwards, am I bevond measure indebted for two examples of this rarest of N. Am. Spliing- 

 ida?. ( )f its larva, food-plain' or liabiis I'know notbincj; ; but'Mr. Edwards, in a paper he is about to publish in the Proceedings of the 

 California Acad. Nat. Sc, will doubtless be aide to give further iiarticulars. 



iEuproserphvs' Photon, G. .^n.,*} and Macro'/hssa Flavf.f.,sciuta I Lepisesia F., Urote,) where it most certainly (Iiks not belong; its 

 short t.)n^ue, the antennal and other characters denote its close alliance to Smeriuthus, near which it should doubtless be placed. 

 Walker savs, "this genus appears to connect Smerinthus with the BombycidiE-" 



DARAPSA TERSICOLOR. h.r«is. 



I Charocampa,] Harris, Sill. Am. Jul. Sc. & Art, XXXVI, p. 3(J3 (1839) ; Ins. Inj. Veg., Flint's E.I., p, 328 (1862). Walker, C. B. M. 



Darapsa Fmico/or, «em«^sVnl. Acad. Xat. Sc, Phila., p. 148 (1859). Morris, Cat. Lep. X. Am., p. 19 (1860) ; Syn. Lep. X. Am., p. 



169 (1862.) 

 0(«s IVs/fo/or, Gro/f<t i^-AiV'SOH, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. V, p. lo4 (1865). ,oi,i>,-o, rv.,. "Rnll R„f)- Sn,. 



Uarapsa Versicolor, G. £ R.. List Lep, X. Am., p. 4 (1868). Edivards, Can. Ent., Vol. II, p. 134 ilh/0). Grole, Bull. Bull. Soc, 



Vol. I, p. 22 (18731, Vol. II, i>. 226 1 18751. 



(PLATE XIII, FIG. 9 c?.) 



Expands 3 inches. l i i ^u 



Body beautiful bright green ; tegulfe edged with white ; a white central dorsal line runs the who e length 

 from the head to the end of abdomen ; tegulss and prothorax, and some of the last segments of abdomen, 

 ed<.ed with white, also white lateral lines on the head. Beneath green and yellow; edges of abdomen white. 

 ^ Upper surface, primaries with alternate white and green curved bauds of varying width ; broad green 

 maroinal band, a white apical line, the white space on disc tinged with purple, a green discal dash, becondanes 

 rust-red, while at costa and abdominal margin, exterior edged with an irregular, narrow, greyish and greenish 



margin. , . i -^ • i i- 



Uudersurflice, primaries yellowish, basal half suffused with reddish; margin green; white apical line; 



some white marks at costa not very far from apex. Secondaries green and yellow; three white bands very 



broad at costa and abdominal margin, almost obsolete on disc of wing. 



Habitat. New England and Middle States, and probably others. 



*This "name cannot obtain," as Grote & Robinson's description of both the genus and species was based on a picture. "We 

 erect this genus for a small Califoi'nia species of the present family, which, while allied to Proscrpm«s diflers by the small reduced sec- 

 ondaries, longer antennae an.l tufted abdoiiien. We are indebted to Mr. J. W. Weidemeyer or the intormat.on respec ing this singular 

 little speVies, which, we believe, has not been hitherto described, while an excellent fagure, shown us by Mr. S. Calverley enable, us to 

 presen the present description and to fix the species. It appears that Dr Boisduval has etiquetted a specimen in his c^b'ne M 

 Proscrpinns Plueton." All of which we think refreshingly cool. In after years they saw the real insect in Boisduval s collection, tlie actual 

 example "etiquetted" by that great savant, and then, with impudence unparalleled, from this they made another description in Trans. 

 \m Ent Soc, Vol. II,-p. 182r(1868,) where they say: "The present description should supersede that given by its as noted above, 

 and which was made from a colored drawing of the species, and is necessarily inaccurate in detail. Language tails . 



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