( 331 ) 



Ilab. ('anada to Georgia, westward to tlie Mississipjii liasin and Colorado ; 

 rarer than the preceding species. 



In the Tring Mnsenm several larvae and pnpae, 47 S6, 19 ? ? from : N. 

 Jersey ; Ohio ; Pennsylvania ; N. Georgia ; Colorado. 



270. Calasymbolus astylus. 



S2>hhix iiMtyhis Drury, Ilhisl,: &. E„t. ii. p. 45. t. 20. f. 2. ludex (1773) (N. York) ; Goeze, E,:t. 

 Beiiti: iii. 2. p. 217. n. 40 (1780). 



Smeri/illiux to Gray, in Griff., Jnim. Kingd. xv. t. 83. f. 2 (1832) ; Gui'r., Icon. Riqne Aiiiiii. ii. t. 84. 

 f. 2 (1829-44) ; Wils., in Encyd. Brit. ed. vii. p. 240. t. 230. f. 5 (1835). 



Smerlnthiix inle</erriniii Harris, in Hitchc, Kfjtt. Gi'ul. Mtisx., App. (1835). 



Smeriiilhiis asti/lux, Gut'rin, I.e. ii. p. 49o (1829-44) ; Harris, in Sill., Jnuni. Hci. Art xxxvi. p. 290 

 n. 2 (1839) (= inlegerrima) ; Emm., Nat. Uist. N. York p. 221. t. 40. f. 4 (1854) ; Walk., 

 Lid Lep. Iiix. B. M. viii. p. 245. n. (1850) (N. York) ; Clem., Juarn. Ac. N. Sci. PhUail. iv. 

 p. 184. n. 89 (18.59) (Mass. ; N. York); Morris, Cnl. Lep. N. Am. p. 20 (1800) ; Clem., in 

 Morris, Sipi. Lrp. N. Am. p. 211. n. i! (1802) ; Grote & Rob., Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliilail. v. p. 160. 

 D. 72 (1805) (Atlantic distr.) ; Streck., Lr/,. Hhup. JlH. p. 51. 50. t. 7. f. 10 ((J) (1873) 

 (N. York : N. Jer.-ey ; Penn. ; /. on Vunin.) ; Buisd., Spic. Gen. Up. HH. i. p. 40. n. 31 (1875) 

 (X. York ; larva) : Peck, Camul Ent. viii. p. 2:i9 (1S7G) (Maine, larva) ; id., I.e. ix. p. 220 (1877) 

 (N. Jersey) ; Fern., SphiiKj. N. Emjhl. p. 70. n. 37 (1H80) (larva; food-pl.) ; Smith, Tnmx. 

 Amei: Enl. Sur. xv. p. 228. t. 11. f. 9 (genit.) (1888) (Can. to Mass. ; N. Y. ; N. J. ; Penn. : 

 larva on Vtircin. cori/mb.) ; Edw., Bull. U. St. Nat. Miis. xxxv. p. 44 (1889) (lit. rel. to 

 metam.) ; Jones, Ent. News i. p. 21 (1890) (larva); Soule, Pxifche vii. p. 191 (1895); Beutenm., 

 Bull. Amri: .\[uH. N. H. vii. p. 310. t. 7. f. (1895) (/., i. ; food-plants) ; Soule, I.e. viii. p. 155 

 (1897) {I. on Anilrouiethi, unusual food). 



Cal„H,imhulu.H astylus, Grote, Bull. Iluffali, Sur. N. //. i. p. 23 (1873) ; Thaxt, Psip-lii- i. p. 29 (1874) 

 (Newton, Mass., vii.) ; Grote, I.e. ii. p. 227. n. 40 (1875) ; Butl., Tniiis. Zuol. Soc. Loud. ix. 

 p. 591. n. 1 (1877) ; Grote, I.e. iii. p. 223. n. 39 (1877) (Mass. ; N. Y. ; Penn.) ; id., Omad. 

 Ent. xviii. p. 133. n. 40 (1880) (Can. southw.) ; Kirby, Cut. Lep. Hel. i. p. 713. n. 1 (1892) 

 (N. Am.). 



C'alasi/mholus Oilasi/utln/lusasti/lus, Grote, Ihuek Muihs N. Aui. p. 35 (188r>) (vi., vii., I. on Vucciueum). 



Paotiius usti/lus, Dyar, in Riley, lus. lAfe iii. p. 322 (1891) (N. Y., electr. light) ; Aich, Eut. News 

 iv. p. 14 (1893) (N. Jersey, /. on iTUijIussiiciii frimhisa = dangleberry) ; Cross, Ent. News vii. 

 p. 297 (1890) (N. Hampsh., rare) ; Erb., ilml. ix. p. 252 (1898) New.irk, larva). 



Suierhithus usti/lii.s X oeelliilu — Suierhttlius var. iiitiu-fauuiis Nenmoegen, Ent. News v. p. 320 (1894). 



<J ?. Antenna as sliort as in mi/op.H. 



S. ('lasj)er (I'l. XXXIV. f. 30) a])ically less rounded than in the two other 

 sj)ecies ; liari)e broader at end and more rounded, upper margin feebly concave 

 hefore ape.x ; not distinctly sinuate. Penis-funnel as in mi/ops ; penis-sheath with 

 one tooth only (PI. XXIX. f. 38). 



?. Vaginal orifice large, transverse, its anterior edge produt'ed into a chitinised 

 ridge, which is mesially sinuate (PI. XV. f. 18), the two lobes of the ridge rounded. 



Larva pale green ; head granulose all over as in mijop.i, with a red side-stripe ; 

 grannies of head and body yellowish-white, prominent, their setae longer than in 

 mtjops ; a series of red dorso-lateral spots : segment 1 with one posterior dot, 

 segment 2 with a dot ou each annulet, five altogether, forming a more or less 

 complete strii)e ; segment 3 with two, segment 4 with three dots, generally con- 

 fluent to one spot, ou the following si->c segments the spots become much larger, 

 covering five or si.\ annulets, the last two sometimes smaller than the preceding 

 ones, segment 11 with two or three dots ; segments 5 to lO are marked, moreover, 

 with two red dorsal, elongate, somewhat comma-shaped markings, converging 

 behind on cacli segment, and between them there is an indication of a red mesial 

 line, a series of red stigniatal B.jwts, variable in size, middle ones elongate, oblique, 

 abdominal legs also spotted with red ; horn witli very prominent tubercles, tip 



