ARCTONOlTS LUCIDUS. Hoisduvm. 



raL^'^a B""M.',''\•"ol!^'m^^2fefll%'^ .im. Aea.l. Nat. S.., Phil i-. 1S8 |1S.}9) Morris, Syn- Lep. X. Am 



,, "l7 ;i862l. Grnic A BohiLn, Proc. lu.t. Soc, Pl.il., Vol. V, p. 16'J (1805) ; List Lep. N. Am., p. 3 (18081. Grole, Bull. 

 B.ilr. Soc, Vol. I, p. 17 ( 18731, Vol. II, p. -35 11875). 



iPLATK XIII, FIG. 7.) 



Expands If— 1 J inches. ,, ., i 



Body olive oreen, fcguke edged with wliitish, antennre stout and heavily serrated. 



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

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

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



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



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



grey 



tion. 



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



To mv frientl of main- years, Ilenrv Edwards, am I beyond measure indebted for two examples of tins rarest of N. ^m. fephing- 

 idie Of its" larva, food-jdanl' or habits I'know notliiuK ; hut Mr. Edwards, in a paper he is about to publish in the Proceedings of the 

 California Acad. Nat. Sc., will doubtless be able to give fnrther particulars. ^ . ^. , ^ ,. t,jji. 



This insect is much in the same |,osition, or rather no position, as the canons Exotic Diurnal Calmaga Buddha ■ no one seems 

 to know rightlv where to place it. Clemens and Walker have put it at ihe last end of the Sphingida- ; brote & Kobinson in their List 

 \ Am Sph put it at the other end, and commenced the Sphingid^e with it. Grote. in his Cat. in Buff. Bnll., \ ol. 1 -^till ■■etained it 

 there but in his latest e«orl, in Vol. II of same work, he has ehanged its position and placed it between Macroghssa Eruto, Bdl 

 lEuproserpinvs Phc.lon, G. & Ji.*) and Macroglosm Flaro/asciaia (Lepmsia F. Grote,) where it most certain. v do. s not Iflong J its 

 .shorttongne, the antennal and other characfers denote its close alliance to Smerinthus, near which it should doublles.s be placed. 

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



DARAFSA YERSICOLOR Uarkis. - 



iChcerocampa,) Harris, Sill. Am. Jul. Sc. & Art, XXXVI, p. 303 (1839) ; Ins. Inj. Veg., Flint's Ed., p. 328 (1862). WaJker, 0. B. M. 



Darapsa wL"cwVjnf Acad. Nat. Sc, Pliila., p. 148 (18.59). Morris, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 19 (1860) ; Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 



169(1862.) 

 0(i(S T'eraco^or, 6Vo(e tt- iJoi/ri.wn, Pixic. Ent. Soc., Phila., \ ol. V^ p. 1.54 (1865). rUMS70l aroie Bull Buff' Soc 



Darapsa Versicolor, G. & B., List Lep. N. Am., p. 4 (1868). Edwards, Can. Ent., Vol. II, p. 1.54 (18/0). Grole, Bull. l.utt. boc, 



Vol. I, p. 22 (18731, Vol. II, p. 226 (1875). 



(PLATE XI If, FIG. 9 c?.) 



Expands 3 inches. , n i i- ..i u i i tu 



Body beautiful bright green ; tegul^ edged with white ; a white central dorsal line runs the whole length 

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

 edc^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 bands of varying width ; broad green 

 marc^inal band, a white apical line, the white space on disc tinged with purple, a green discal dash becondaries 

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



"^"^^Undersurface, primaries yellowish, basal half suffiised 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 .^T^.'^^^'^fJ^j, °" ,,^ if^^"^^,' ^fj.! 

 erect this genus for a small Califo -nia species of the present family, which, while allied to P™serpm_,« differs by the small rcdiiced sec- 

 ondaries lon-er antenn.-e and tnfte.l ab.h.men. We are indebted to Mr. J. W. Weidemeyer for the information respecing this singular 

 mie pec e which we believe, has not been hitherto described, while an excellent figure, shown us by Mr. S. Calverley enables u to 

 t sen he piwnt description and to fix the species. It appears that Dr Boisdnv^l •'- .^•^^l-"!?,^""'^"!,^;^^:^ "^^"^ 

 Proserninus Phmlon " All of which we tliink refreshingly cool. In after years they saw the real insect in Boisduval s collection, the actiial 

 ^anX^etkmeiTed'' by that great savant, and then, l-ith impudence unparalleled, from this they made another description in Trans. 

 Am Ent Soc'! Vol II,-p. 182r(1868,) where thev siv : "The present description shonld supersede that given by ns as noted above, 

 1 „.l,;r.l, w.,,. „ia,]p f,-nni n cnlnrpd drnwinii' of tile suecies. and is nece.ssarilv inaccurate in detail. Language laiJS . 



AUi. i^Ul. ,_n_.,,., , V... i-., I--, ^w-., .,^^^^., .---.- - ". - _ - ,_ 



and which was made from a colored drawing ot the species, and is neces 



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