70 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



white spots on each wing, and a white stripe on each side of 

 the thorax. It usually goes by the name of A. octomaculata 

 (Fabricius), but this species inhabits the Southern States, and 

 the spots on the fore-wings are yellow instead of white. 



GENUS EUTHISANOTIA. 



Euthisanotia, Hiibner, Zutr. Exot. Schmett. iii. p. 22 (1825). 

 Eudryas, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lepid. i. pi. 14, fig. 9 (1836); 



id. Rev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 57 (1874); Walker, List Lepid. 



Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 143 (1856); Packard, Proc. Essex 



Instit. iv. p. 24 (1864) ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Amer. 



p. 145 (1872). 



The species of this genus are larger than Alypia^ with 

 longer wings. There are several common species in North 

 America, with white fore-wings, bordered with reddish-brown, 

 and yellow hind-wings, similarly bordered. They differ some- 

 what from the more typical Agaristida in appearance, and they 

 were referred by Walker to the Family Glottulida, of Guenee, 

 in the Noctuce. The following species is probably American ; 

 it has not been figured before. 



EUTHISANOTIA SANCTI - JOHANNIS. 



(Plate LXXVIL Fig. 2.) 



Eudryas sancta-johannis^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 

 ix. p. 144, no. 3 (1856). 



" Olive green ; sides of the thorax tufted with white hairs ; 

 abdomen yellow, with an olive-green dorsal stripe towards the 

 base. Fore-wings with some darker marks and with some 

 white streaks towards the base, and with an oblique irregular 

 white discal band, which is widened in front and includes 

 some olive marks; a broad reddish band, including an un- 

 dulating bluish line along the tip and the apical part of the 



