EUDEr.is. 403 



point near base; postmedial line placed towards termen, olive with 

 deep olive-brown line on the inner edge, bent outwards to costa, 

 then waved and excurved to submedian fold, then incurved, the 

 area beyond it crimson- red, shading to yellowish at termen ; a 

 waved whitish subterminal line with brown mark on it at middle 

 and two blackish lunules beyond it above tornus ; a terminal series 

 of crimson lunules defined by yellow. Hind wing golden yellow ; 

 a faint dark discoidal spot; a crimson-red terminal band with 

 waved inner edge, with a yellow striga on it towards tornus and 

 a black striga above it on inner area ; cilia tipped with white. 

 Underside yellow w r ith pale red terminal band expanding below 

 costa of fore wing which is suffused with fuscous to beyond middle, 

 the orbicular and reniform black ; hind wing with black discoidal 

 lunule. 



Hub. U.S.A., Atlantic States, New York (Morrison), 1 J , 1 9 . 

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Larva. Head pale reddish with six small black dots on each lobe. 

 Body enlarged at joint 12, each segment with a median transverse 

 pinkish stripe containing the black dots of the tubercles ; the rest 

 with six transverse purplish lines on a whitish ground ; shields 

 and feet pinkish with black dots. Food-plant, Ampelopsis. — 

 H. G. D. 



*4867. Eudryas brevipennis. (Plate CXLV. fig. 30.) 



E«dn/as brevipennis, Stretch, Zvg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 151, pi. 7. ff. 3. ! 

 (1874) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 195 ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 39. 



2 . Head and thorax very dark chocolate-brown w r ith a few 

 silvery blue scales ; antennas ringed with white ; patagia pure 

 white ; pectus white ; legs dark brown except at base, banded with 

 white, the fore tibiae fringed with white hair; abdomen orange- 

 yellow, the dorsal crests black, the basal crest with some of the 

 hairs tipped with silvery blue, the ventral surface white with 

 sublateral series of dark brown bars and the extremity and anal 

 tuft dark brown. Fore wing purplish pink, the costal edge fuscous 

 to postmedial band and the costal area irrorated with silvery blue, 

 the inner medial area black-brown with patch of white scales on 

 inner margin; a broad pure white fascia from base where it extends 

 to costa and inner margin, in and below cell to lower angle, then 

 obliquely bent upwards to costa as the postmedial band, a subbasal 

 black point on it below the cell, its upper edge indented by the 

 orbicular and reniform, the former not otherwise defined, the latter 

 olive-brown irrorated with black, the lower edge of band defined 

 by olive-yellow to middle where there is a triangular indentation, 

 its outer edge indented at discal fold, oblique and waved from vein 4 

 to submedian fold, bounded on outer side by the double waved 

 blackish postmedial line filled in with olive-brown and with slight 

 white bar on it at inner margin; subterminal line Curved, waved, 



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