So LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



short and conical, and pointed in both sexes. The front tibice 

 are set with short spines beneath, but have no apical spur. 

 The fore-wings are long, pointed and triangular, with the hind 

 margin gradually curved; and the hind-wings are long, and 

 rounded at the extremity. 



The larvae are smooth and cylindrical, with the incisions 

 well-marked, and feed exposed on flowers ; and the pupa is 

 subterranean. 



CHLORIDEA RHEXI^E, 

 (Plate CXXVIIL, Fig. .j 



Phalana rhexice, Abbot & Smith, Lepid. Georgia, ii. pi. 100 



(1797). 

 Chloridea rhexice, Westwood in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. 



Moths, p. 198, pi. 24, fig. 3 (1841); Walker, List Lepid. 



Ins. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 678, no. i (1857). 

 Aspila rhexice, Guene'e, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. ii. p. 175 



(1852). 



The fore-wings are green, with three, nearly parallel oblique 

 yellowish lines ; the stigmata small, but distinctly marked, the 

 thorax green, and the abdomen white, with transverse dusky 

 bands. The hind-wings are white, tinged with reddish-brown 

 externally, but the fringes are yellowish. The antennae are 

 reddish beneath. 



The larva is green, with a yellow upper and a white lower 

 lateral line, the last narrow ; between them is a row of small 

 reddish spots. It feeds on the buds and blossoms of Rhexia 

 virginica, and other plants, and also on tobacco, to which it is 

 very destructive by destroying the main shoot. 



In Abbot's time, hand-picking and throwing hot sand or 

 wood-ashes upon the plants were resorted to for the destruc- 

 tion of the larvae. A specimen, which Abbot reared, spun a 



