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with a rosy white tinge, and a brown edge above ; abdomen with 
a longitudinal dorsal brown line. Expands from two and a half 
_40 two inches and three quarters. 
My Specimens, a male and a female, were captured at Cam- 
bridge on the Azalea viscosa. 
3. S. Myops. Smith-Abbot. = Rosacearum. Boisd. 
Chocolate-brown ; fore-wings sinuated and angulated on the 
outer edge, varied with wavy whitish and brown bands, with a 
white Z at tip, and a tawny yellow spot on each of the outer an- 
gles; hind-wings with abbreviated whitish and brown bands 
upon the front edge, ochre-yellow next to the body, with a round 
black eye-spot having a pale blue centre near the anal angle; 
head and shoulder-covers glossed with bluish white; a rusty 
brown stripe in the middle of the thorax; abdomen with a few 
tawny yellow spots on each side. Expands from two inches and 
three lines to two inches and six lines. Larva, as figured by Ab- 
bot, (Ins. Georg. p. 51, pl. 26,) apple-green, the head margined 
with yellow, and two rows of rust-red spots with six oblique yel- 
lowish bands on each side of the body. Abbot says that it eats 
the leaves of the wild cherry-tree, and buries itself in the ground 
to undergo its transformations. . Pupa deep brown. 
M. Boisduval has named and figured but has not described this 
Species, in the first volume of his Species Général des Lepidop- 
fetes, pl. 15, fig. 4; moreover the name given by him is subse- 
quent to that of Sir J. E. Smith, which is an additional reason 
why it cannot be adopted. 
** Antenne pectinated on both sides in the males. 
- S. geminata. Say. 
Rosy ash-gray ; fore-wings angulated and with a sinuous outer 
Margin, varied with transverse wavy rosy gray and brown lines, 
4 brown Spot and angulated band near the middle, and a deep 
Town semioval spot at tip; hind-wings rose-colored in the mid- 
dle, With a large semioval black spot including two pale blue 
Spots near the anal angle; thorax with a large central semioval 
brown spot. Expands from two and a quarter to more than two 
Mehes and a half. 
Tam indebted to the Rev. L. W: Leonard, of Dublin, N. H., 
for My specimens, both of which are males. The figure of S. 
%ellatus Jamaicensis, in Drury’s Illustrations, Vol. I, pl. 25, fig. 
2,3, very nearly resembles the geminata, but it has only one blue 
Pupil in the eye-spot of the hind-wings. Mr. Kirby’s S. Cerisit, 
