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Larva, Guen. Noct: 3, 106. Coquillett Papilio 1,7. Body greenish gray or 
yellow; a light dorsal, a dark sub dorsal, and a dark broken stigmatal stripe; the two 
anterior pairs of abdominal legs partially aborted. On the 8th segment is a protuber- 
ance, and in Abbott’s specimen, described by (menee, another sharper and turned 
backwards on the 11th. Head gray, with two white spots. Length 1.25 inches. 
Food plant Oak. 
The descriptions above referred to very materially differ. 
5. gracilis, Edw. Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. 2, 511, Grote l.c. 4, 17, Grote Can. 
Ent. 6, 169. : 
Primaries light gray, more or less clouded with blackish .on the outer and inner 
margins; transverse lines indistinct; t.p. line edged outwardly with brown; s.t. space 
clear gray; reniform gray, with a brown ring; secondaries deep yellow, band narrow, 
curved, terminating abruptly at some distance from the inner margin; border broad, 
interrupted, with spot near the angle. Expands 45 mm. MHabitat South and Fast. 
Var. gordida, Grt. Can. Ent. 9, 170. Dark hoary suffused blue gray, without 
basal streak on secondaries. 
6. minuta, Ed. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 2, 512, Grote l.c. 4, 17. 
Primaries dark glossy brown; transverse lines distinct; b. line sharply toothed; 
t.a. line arched; median band generally narrow, connecting with shade along inner 
margin; border interrupted but with anal spot. Expanse 40—50 mm. Eastern and 
Middle States. Food plant, Locust. A variable species, the variations differing very 
much in general appearance from each other. 
Var. parvula, Edw. Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. 2, 511, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 
4, 17. Primaries ight brown; inner margin black. 
Var. mellitula, Hulst. Base and median space olivaceous, with a brownish 
shade; reniform obsolete; subreniform annulate; space from b. line t.a. line jet black; 
subterminal space near costa, white; outer third darker than median space. 
7- Olivia, Hy. Edw. Buil. Brookl. Ent. Soc., p. 295. 
Size of grynea; primaries olivaceous; on the internal margin, and running nearly 
to the middle of the wing, covering the space of the subreniform spot, is a large sub— 
oblong brown patch, narrowest anteriorly, not reaching the base of the wing, and 
toothed posteriorly; basal line indistinct; t.a, line quite distinct; t.p. line obsolete, save 
at costa, reniform faintly defined; secondaries orange yellow; the median band is rather 
narrow, constricted in the middle, and joined-to a black clouded streak, which runs 
along the abdominal margin to the base; marginal band interrupted. Thorax oliva— 
ceous, abdomen orange brown, darkest posteriorly, with a small longitudinal white 
spot at base. Marginal band beneath, continuous. Expands 45—50 mm. Habitat 
Texas. 
Very rare. Has the appearance of being an aberration. 
8. Grynea, Cram. (gryn-E-a) Phaleena grynea, Pap. Exot. 3, 20, pl. 208, f. H, 
Ephesia grynea, Hub. Verz. 2732, Noctua grinea, Oliv. Ency. Meth. 292, 206, 
C. polygama, Guen. Noct. 7, 105, pl. 16, f. 2, (2), muptula, Walk. C. B. M. 1205, 
gryned, Grt. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 4, 16. i 
