[March 1884. BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC. VOL. VI. 115 
Wing form much as in ce/#s. Primaries of male at base ferruginous, 
outwardly blackish brown. ‘Two rows of yellow spots; one discal of 
seven, reaching across the wing; the other nearly submarginal of five. 
Secondaries blackish brown, with a row of six black spots with yellow 
iris, Female somewhat paler in color, with markings larger and yellow 
spots less pronounced. Beneath on primaries yellowish; secondaries 
gray with purple shade, ocelli replacing the black spots of upper surface; 
else beneath practically reproducing the markings of upper surface. 
Expands 2—3 inches. Had. East U.S. 
The larva is in form and pattern of markings much like that of cedts 
but rather paler in color throughout: the processes surmounting the head 
are subglobular and spinose, of a yellowish color; the chrysalis has the 
head less distinctly bifid. Food plant ce/#s and prunus (Bd. Lec.) 
Var. proserpina, Scudd. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. II, 401; Edw. Butt. N. A. 
Il, Apatura pl. 2. f. 5 & 6. 
Upper surface of secondaries black, markings not perceptible. 
Ocelli below almost obsolete. 
Mr. Strecker in his catalogue records this as an aberration and re- 
cords on ‘‘abé QJ nig upper surface of all wings obscured with blackish”. 
Var. flora, Edw. Butt. N, A. II, pl. 5. 1, (var. clyton?) Can. Ent. 13, 
p- 85 (sp. dist.). 
Wings more excised, secondaries % more prolonged, color more 
ferruginous. Mr. Edwards first recorded this insect as a variety, possibly 
a species. In Can, Ent. supra cit. he records the tact that he has received 
the larva and that as it differs in habit and number of moults from clyton 
found in W. Va. he now considers it a distinct species. In view of the 
fact that the natural home of this vay, is much to the South, and the de- 
velopment therefore naturally more rapid Mr. Edward’s arguments 
lose force. 
Expands 3 inches. //aéd. Florida. 
ACONISTHOS, 22. 
The single species of this genus which is only doubtfully catalogued 
as belonging to our fauna, is easily distinguished by its large size, falcate, 
tawny primaries, and fuscous hairy secondaries; apex of primaries black, 
with a single large white spot on costa near tip; outer margin also 
black, that color broadening toward the hind angle. Secondaries uni- 
