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Female. — Front at vertex from 0.37 to 0.47 of the head width, 

 widening immediately as in the male. The pollen of the parafrontals 

 is in some cases thin enough to show a considerable dark area, but 

 in most of the specimens is not very dark. Third antennal joint 

 only a little more than twice the second. 



Length, 11-14.5 mm. 



Redescribed from 99 specimens of both sexes as follows: 11 from 

 the vicinity of the District of Columbia, including Chesapeake Bay, 

 Md., and Oak Grove, Va. (Viereck, Shannon, Greene, Aldrich, 

 Townsend, and McAtee), also 3 reared by the late Henry F. Schoen- 

 born from Citheronia regalis Huebner and Anisota ruhicunda 

 Fabricius, and 1 reared by Pergande from the former host ; 4 from 

 Sandusky, Columbus, and Cincinnati, Ohio (Hine, Allen); 2, North 

 Carolina, 1 being from Southern Pines (Manee); 5 from Florida, 2 

 collected by Charles Palm without other data, the other 3 from 

 Miami (Townsend); 4 from Mississippi, 1 with illegible place (J. I. 

 Hurst), 2, Agricultural College (Allen), and 1, McHenry (Allen); 2 

 from Arkansas, 1 being from Lake Village (E. E. Holley), the other, 

 Benton (D. G. Hall); 15 from Texas, 13 of these being from College 

 Station (Reinhard), 1 Bryan and 1 Austin (Melander); 37 from Ari- 

 zona, of which 36 are from Sabino Basin and Sombrero Butte (Town- 

 send), 1 from Fort Grant (Hubbard); 1 from Socorro, N. Mex. 

 ( Williston) ; 1 from Lancaster, southern California, reared by Koebele 

 from Hemileuca sp.? and 1 from San Pedro Madero, Chihuahua, 

 Mexico (Townsend); 4 additional specimens are without localities. 



There are nine specimens, correctly determined, in the Vienna 

 Museum material. Two are from Kentucky; three are labeled 

 "Texas Boll"; two "Am. b. Georgia"; one "N. America"; and 

 one only labeled "Pop. 852," which I take to mean the collector 

 Poppius. 



The following seven specimens were sent by C. W. Johnson: One 

 each from Hamilton, Mass. (J. B. Smith, reared from Telea polypJiemus 

 Linnaeus); Dedham, Mass. (Johnson); Philadelphia, Pa. (Johnson) ; 

 Suffolk, Va. (Johnson); St. Augustine, Fla. (Johnson); Bear Creek 

 Canyon, Colo.; and Blanco, Tex. 



From the American Museum the following six specimens were 

 received: Two from Jacksonville and Biscayne Bay, Fla. (Slosson); 

 one each from Brooklyn, N. Y. (Akhurst); BrownsvUle, N. Y. 

 (Woodruff); Browns Mills, N. J.; and one from the Wniiston collec- 

 tion without locality. 



From the University of Kansas were received 10 specimens, 5 of 

 them from Bourbon, Morris, Marshall, Wilson, and Morton Counties 

 (Beamer, Martin, WiUiams); 1, Magdalena Mountains, N. Mex. 

 (Snow) ; 1, Cochise County, Ariz. (Snow) ; 1, Galveston, Tex. (Snow) ; 

 and 1, District of Columbia. 



