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NOCTUID.E. 



whitish, angled inwards to the postmedial line at discal fold, with 

 slightly darker marks beyond it below costa, at discal fold and 

 below veins 3 and 2 ; a terminal series of indistinct lumiles defined 

 by slight white irroration before them ; cilia pale at base, rufous at 

 tips. Hind wing orange-yellow; a black discoidal lunule; the 

 terminal area purplish red with waved inner edge, a black and 

 whitish bar at inner margin and slight whitish bar before termen 

 in submedian fold. Underside of fore wing yellow, the costal area 

 to beyond middle, the orbicular and reniform black-brown, the 

 terminal area red; cilia with series of white points at base. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Los Angeles in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



Larva. Head red-brown with six black spots on each lobe. 

 Body slightly enlarged at joint 13, each segment with a median 

 transverse dark orange stripe containing black dots, the rest with 

 fine transverse black lines on a white ground ; cervical shield 

 nearly whitish, the others orange with black dots. — H. G. 1). 



4868. Eudryas unio. 



Eufhisanotia unio, Hiibn. Sainral. Exot. Schmett. Zutr. iii. p. 12, ff. 431, 

 432 (1827) ; Boisd. Spec. gen. Lep. i. pi. 14. f. 9 ; Stretch, Zyg. & 

 Bomb. N. Am. p. 149, pi. 7. f. 2 ; Riley, Eep. Ins. Miss. vi. p. 90, fig. 24 ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 194 ; Kirby, Oat. Lep. Het. p. 39. 



Head and a broad dorsal fascia on thorax dark brown, the latter 

 with a few silvery scales mixed ; outer part of tegulse and the 

 patagia pure white, the tegulse with slight white streaks near 

 dorsal edge ; pectus white ; legs brown and white, the fore tibiae 

 black mixed with white and fringed with white, the tarsi with 

 slight white rings ; abdomen yellow with dorsal and lateral series 

 of blackish spots except towards extremity, the large basal crest 

 dark brown mixed with silvery scales, the anal tuft and ventral 



Fig. 190. — Eudryas unio, S . 



surface white. Fore wing pure white ; the costal area deep red to 

 end of cell, extending to discal fold, irrorated with blue- white and 

 with some yellowish on its lower edge ; a triangular red patch 

 on inner margin from near base to near postmedial line, irrorated 

 with white and with some diffused olive-yellow on its edges ; 

 orbicular only defined on the dark area, semicircular, olive with 

 slight whitish annulus : reniform with its upper part olive with 

 while annulus, its lower part yellowish with slight olive lunule on 



