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narrow black bands across the forepart of the thorax. Wings ex- 

 pand one and a quarter to one and a half inches. 



Larva. The top of the fourth ring rises in the form of a long 

 horn, sloping forwards a little ; the tail, with the hindmost feet, 

 which are rather longer than the others, is always raised when the 

 larva is at rest, but it generally uses these legs in walking; head 

 large, brown; sides of the second and third ring, green; rest of the 

 body brown, variegated with white on the back a few short hairs 

 hardly visible. 



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2. E. concinna Sm. Abbott. Figured in Sm. Abb. pi. 85. 



Color, light brown; forewings dark brown along the inner mar- 

 gin are more or less tinged with gray before; a dark brown dot* 

 near the middle, a spot of the same color near each angle, a very 

 small triangular whitish spot near the shoulders, and several dark 

 brown longitudinal streaks on the outer hind margin ; the hind 

 wings of the male are brownish or dirty white, with a brown spot 

 on the inner hind angle ; those of the female are dusky brown ; 

 body light brown, with the thorax rather darker. Expands from 

 one to one and three-eighth inch. 



Larva. Yellowish brown, paler on the sides, striped with 

 slender black lines ; head red ; on the top of the fourth ring there 

 is a hump, also red ; along the back, several short black prickles ; 

 hinder extremity tapering, and is always elevated at an angle with 

 the rest of the body, when not crawling. 



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3. E. albifrons Sm. Abb. Figured in Sm. Abb. pi. 80. 



Male. Hoary. Palpi brown above. Thorax with a tawny band 

 near the fore border. Forewings with various small brown marks, 

 white along the costa for half the length from the tips ; the outline 

 of this white part is very irregular, and the adjoining part of the 

 wing behind it is dark brown ; a row of short undulating blackish 

 streaks along the exterior border. Length of the body six lines, 

 of the wings fifteen lines. 



Female. Cinereous. Fore wings thinly covered with black 

 flecks ; a brown zigzag band at a little before one-third of the 

 length, and extending from the costa to rather beyond half the 

 breadth of the wing ; a large white patch on the fore half of the 



