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and two black metathoracic spots. Abdomen brownish ferrugi- 

 nous, with a row of dorsal brown spots and a double row of white 

 spots, and with lateral alternate black and narrow white ctemi- 

 bands. Anterior wings dull ferruginous, or dark brownish varied 

 with white and blackish ; a white spot at the base, with a blackish 

 band, white margined towards the base, crossing the middle of the 

 disk ; discal spot white and black margined, a band of blackish 

 lines crossing the middle of the nervules, margined posteriorly 

 broadly with whitish, and black circlets on the posterior ends of 

 median nervules ; apical line black, white margined toward costa. 

 Posterior wings whitish, with an indistinctly double, median black- 

 ish band, joined near inner margin by a blackish patch from the 

 base and a broad terminal dark brown band edged above with 

 blackish. Sometimes the wing is blackish brown, with a central 

 white line and a fainter one above it, with white at the base. 



Mature Larva. Head green, with a pale blue line on each side. 

 Body pea green, with lateral oblique pink bands edged below 

 with white ; caudal horn crimson. (Abbot & Smith.) 



Pupation. Pupa reddish brown ; tongue-case not apparent. 

 Pupation began May Itth, and the imago appeared June 19th. 

 Another entered the pupa state August 25th, and appeared April 

 26th, in Georgia. (Abbot & Smith.) 



Food-plants. Prinos glaber; Winterberry. 



Mexico ; Georgia ; Massachusetts ; Connecticut. 



CLEMENS. 



CERATOMIA HAKRIS. 



Size large. Body usually thick and long. The head small, 

 nearly sessile, and somewhat depressed ; front broad and almost 

 vertical, pilose or sub-tufted ; the eyes small and scarcely salient; 

 the palpi rather short and slender, nearly horizontal and not iden- 

 tified with the front ; tongue about one-third as long as the body, 

 not as long as the thorax ; the antenna longer than the thorax, 

 ending in a short hook with seta. The thorax is thick, sub-glo- 

 bose, but little advanced anterior to the base of the fore wings. 

 The abdomen is cylindrical, tapering near the extremity, and 

 nearly thrice or full thrice the length of the thorax. The legs 



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stout and the hind tibias with two long internal and two short 



