1 ( >6 NOCTUTD.E. 



sinuous black streak in subbasal fold from base to outer edge 

 of anteniedial line, which is double, oblique, waved, angled out- 

 wards below costa and bent inwards to inner margin ; orbicular 

 whitish defined by black, oblique, acute at lower extremity and 

 M'ith black streak from it to rcniform, which is defined by black on 

 inner side, slightly defined on outer; a diffused dark medial line, 

 oblique from costa to reniform, inwardly oblique and sinuous from 

 lower angle nf cell to iuner margin at antemedial line ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with whitish, the outer line black, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 and angled outwards on vein 1, with slight black streak 

 from it to termen in discal fold and stro?ig streak in submedian 

 fold ; an indistinct waved whitish subterminal line, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 ; the interspaces of terminal area with short black 

 streaks ; cilia chequered whitish and brown with fine black line 

 through them. Hind wing whitish suffused with reddish brown ; 

 a terminal series of small blackish spots : the underside whitish 

 tinged and irrorated with red-brown, a slight dark streak in base 

 of cell, a blackish discoidal spot and spot on middle of costa, 

 a diffused somewhat maculate postmedial line incurved below 

 vein 4. and terminal series of small black spots. 



H«b. Canada ; U.S.A., Maine, Kittery Point, New York, 1 S , 

 1 2 i ^ ew Jersey, Union Co., Distr. of Columbia, Washington, 

 Illinois, Carbondale, Florida. Exp. 44-46 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 86, pi. vi. f. 10. 



Black, the waits, except 1, pale brown with apical hair and 

 minute rosette of reddish hairs, the brownish seta? similar to the 

 rather numerous secondary hairs ; a bright red dorsal stripe on 

 somites 3 to 11, narrowly edged with velvety black interrupted at 

 the incisures ; somite V2 dorsally black ; head bilobed, shining 

 black with a red patch at apex of each lobe, slightly shagreened, 

 the coarse seta? pale : prolegs pale. Food-plants : "Wild Cherry, 

 Fire Cherry, and Choke Cherry. 



S . Head and thorax white tinged with pule brown ; palpi with 

 black band on 2nd joint ; antenna? with the basal joint black behind ; 

 shoulders and outer edges of patagia with black streaks ; tibia? 

 streaked with black : abdomen white dorsally irrorated with fuscous, 

 ventrally tinged with pale brown. Fore wing white thickly irrorated 

 with pale brown ; subbasal line represented by double black stria? from 

 costa ; a black streak in submedian lold from base to just beyond 



