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with a black line along each side of the body, and a transverse 

 line of the same color between each of the segments, and it is 

 covered with long pale yellow hairs. Others are of a brownish- 

 yellow or foxy red. Head and ends of the feet ochre-yellow ; 

 body below blackish. 



Var. a. Wings wholly white. 



Var. b. Primaries with one black dot. 



Var. c. Primaries with one black dot ; secondaries with two 

 black dots. 



Var. d. Primaries with two black dots ; secondaries the same. 



Var. e. Primaries with three black dots ; secondaries the same. 



North America. 



WALKER. 



4. S. cunea Drury. Punctatissima Sm. Abb. Figured in Drury, I, pi. 



18 ; Sm. Abb. pi. 70. 



Antennae black, pectinate ; head white ; back and abdomen ash- 

 color. Primaries white ; spots numerous, of many forms, and 

 sooty black ; external margin with five spots ; those nearest the 

 tips triangular. Secondaries with a dark spot near the external 

 edge, and faintly marked near the external angle. Length of the 



body 5 6 lines ; of the wings 13 18 lines. 



WALKER. 



5. S. congrua Walk. C. B. M. 669. 



White. Tarsi with black bands. Fore coxae and fore femora 

 luteous, with black spots on the inner side; fore tibiae striped with 

 black on the inner side. Male. Head and fore part of the thorax 

 with a slight testaceous tinge. Primaries with four oblique very 

 imperfect and irregular bands, composed of pale brown dots. 

 Length of the body 6 f lines; of the wings 16 20 lines. 



Georgia. 



WALKER. 



6. S. egle Drury. Figured in Drury, II, pi. 20. 



Wings rather long, thin, delicate, of a bluish-gray color, paler 

 on the front edge and without spots ; head, thorax, under side of 

 the body and legs, gray ; neck cream-color ; top of abdomen 

 bright yellow, with a row of black spots and two rows on each 

 side. Expands from one inch and three-quarters to nearly two 

 inches. 



