PRCTES, 125 
by brown, the former minute, round, the latter with brown striga 
in centre; medial line slight, dark, bent outwards beyond the cell, 
then inwards to below the cell and dentate; postmedial line double, 
black, obsolescent towards costa, shghtly bent outwards below costa, 
oblique to vein 6 where it is rather obtusely angled outwards, then 
evenly incurved, some white points beyond it on costa and black 
streaks above and below vein 6; subterminal line indistinet, greyish, 
irregularly waved, excurved at middle, then incurved ; a series of 
small black spots just before termen and a fine terminal line. Hind 
wing grey suffused with brown, the inner area whitish towards 
base; a dark postmedia! striga at inner margin and two towards 
tornus; a blackish terminal line; cilia white with a brownish line 
through them ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a brown 
discoidal lunule, sinuous medial line, indistinctly double waved 
postmedial line, and diffused waved subterminal line. 
Hab. U.S.A. (Doubleday), 1 2 type abrostolella, Mississippi, Texas 
(Belfrage), 2 3, 1 Q type prepilata, New Mexico. LHxp, 24-28 
millim. 
Larva. H. Edw. & Elliot, Papilio, iii. p. 135. 
Yellowish apple-green, each somite with fifteen to eightcen 
irregularly disposed yellow spots, mostly lozenge-shaped, the sub- 
dorsal spots somewhat linear; Ist somite with yellow line in 
front; spiracles dull orange on a bright lemon- -yellow stigmatal 
line. ’ Food-plant, Liquidambar ptyraciflua, Linn. 
6346. Pectes declinata. (Plate CLXXVIL. fig. 4.) 
Ingura declinata, Grote, Can. Ent, xi. p. 207 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. 
N. Am. p. 240. 
6. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; neck with black 
ring; tegule blackish at tips; patagia with some black scales 
pectus whitish; tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen grey 
dorsally suffused with brown, the lateral tufts and ventral bars on 
hasal segments blackish. Fore wing grey suffused with purple- 
brown, especially on costal area and terminal area except towards 
apex ; subbasal line represented by a dark striga from costa defined 
on outer side by whitish ; antemedial line double, black, obsolescent 
towards costa, angled outwards below costa and inwards in cell, then 
excurved and angied inwards on vein 1 almost to base, a whitish 
patch before it below the cell; orbicular and reniform grey defined 
by brown, the former with brown point in centre, small, round, the 
latter with brown striga in centre, somewhat angled inwards on 
median nervure; a slight black medial line, bent outwards beyond 
the cell and angled inwards below the cell and at vein 1; post- 
medial line double, black, bent outwards below costa, oblique to 
vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards, then incurved and 
slightly excurved at vein 4, some white points heyond it on costa and 
black streaks above and below vein 6; subterminal line indistinct, 
greyish, irregularly waved, incurved below vein 3; the terminal 
