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changing to chrysalids, they became of a uniform pale dirty yellow, 

 with the markings almost entirely obliterated. The chrysalis is of the 

 usual form and the moths appeared between the 2d and 8th of August. 

 The kind of moth that was produced from these worms is faithfully 

 represented at Plate 1, Figure 14, the front wings being marked as in 

 the figure, with grayish-brown and black, and having a dull flesh- 

 colored shade. It differs essentially from all those that I have hither- 

 to described, and belongs to a different genus {Hadena). It was named 

 Iladena suhjunota by Gruen6e, in his MS. and this name has been re- 

 tained by Messrs. Grote & Robinson, in their description of it pub- 

 lished in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 

 Volume II, pp. 198-9, which will be found below. 



Hadena subjoncta, Or. & Rob. — Larva. — Average length 1.60 inches. Color carneous-gray, 

 inclining to ferruginous in the middle of each segment. Minutely speckled as with pepper and 

 3alt. A lateral stigmatal stripe, somewhat lighter than the rest of the body. An interrupted 

 dorsal and subdorsal white line, these lines being quite distinct on the posterior half and indistinct 

 in the anterior half of each segment. Two distinct spots anteriorly on the dorsum of each seg- 

 ment; the other spoffs obsolete. Head light shiny brown, with two outwardly diverging darker 

 marks. Segment 1, with the three longitudinal white lines and a white anterior edge, shaded on the 

 inside with dark brown. Anal segment with a white transverse line, somewhat in the shape of a 

 drawn-out W, and with a deep shade above it. Venter glaucous. Legs of the same color. 



Chrysalis. — Of a deepbrcwn color, rather short and thick, and with two bristles at extremity. 



Imago— (PL 1, fig. 14). Length 0.65; expanse 1.50. <j* $ .—Antennae simple, finely and 

 shortly ciliate beneath. Carneous brown. Head with a dark frontal line. Prothoracic pieces with. 

 a very distinct and deep brown line. Abdomen crested above at base, with a spreading anal tuft 

 in the male. Fore wings, above, blackish brown shaded with carneous. A longitudinal deep 

 '. rmvn basal ray, shaded inferiorly, extending outvvardly and narrowly to the transverse anterior 

 line. Above this ray, the base is tinged with carneous, and the basal liae is indicated by a dark 

 geminate costal streak. Transverse anterior line geminate, the outer line the darker, roundedly 

 and evenly interspaceally waved, nearly prepeudicular. Ordinary spots very large, distinctly lim- 

 ited. The median space is wide superiorly, but is constricted below the median nervure ; a longi- 

 tudinal deep brown streak runs Along the submedian fold and connects the two median lines at their 

 jpoint of greatest contiguity. This streak becomes the lower margin of the claviform spot which 

 abutts from the transverse anterior lice, and whose upper margin is seen in a very distinct deep 

 brown line running outwardly and downwardly obliquely from the median nervure. Aboi : the 

 claviform is the large obicular, pale, with a distinct annulus. The reniform is wide, of the ordi- 

 Jiary shape, with an indistinct central shade and the distinct annulus is often obsolete outwardly. 

 Beyond the resiform, the wing is shaded with carneous to the subtermiual line, this shade spread- 

 ing inferiorly. A diffuse and faint blackish median shade runs from the costa downward between 

 the ordinary spots and is discontinued below median nervure. The transverse posterior line is in- 

 cepted above the reniform, runs outwardly straightly along the costal region, tbeuc 1 downwardly 

 ever the nervules, bending inwardly beneath the reniform spot. It is geminate, faint, the lines en- 

 closing a paler space and interspaceally lunulate. Subterminal line pale, preceded by a dark shade, 

 forming the usual M-shaped mark at the middle, the points of the M attaining the external mar- 

 gin. Tbe dark shading is sometimes tinged with olivaceous before the internal angle as is the in- 

 ferior shading of the longitudinal streak connecting the median lines. The terminal space is blackish 

 brown and black icterspaceal marks precede the terminal line. The fringes are uneven ; the exter- 

 nal margin of the wing retires inwardly before internal angle. 



Hind wings smoky blackish, paler tc wards the base, without discernable diseal mark or lines. 

 Under surface pale. The wings terminally and along costal edges are covered with powdery squa- 

 mation with intermixed dark scales bringing the nervules into relief. The fore wings show three 

 ante-apical white dots and the white subterminal shade line emanates from a fourth and larger d it 

 just before the apex, these latter at times hardly discernable.. Faini discal dots ; sometime 

 ei dark median lines can be seen on both wings. 



