[July 1884. BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM, SOC. VOL. VIL. - 47 
Primaries brownish gray, with yellowish tinge; all the Imes and spots heavy and 
strongly marked, shading into black on the margin; reniform large, blackish, sur— 
rounded with a paler ring; subreniform open, fawn drab. Secondaries yellowish red; 
median band narrow, widest at center, not reaching anal margin. Expands 75—8o0 
mm. Habitat, Nebraska, Kansas, Col. 
Var. Somnus, Dodge, Can. Ent. 13, 40. Primaries head and thorax black, thinly 
powdered with gray scales; abdomen and long scales at base of hind wings black. 
47. concumbens, Walk, C.B.M. 1198, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 4, 7, Streck. 
Rho. Het. 39, pl. 5, f. 12, Dianu, Hy. Edw. Bull, Brookl. Ent. Soc. 3, 57. 
Primaries pale violaceous brown, mixed with gray, lightest towards costa, lines 
fine, but distinct; reniform vague, whitish, pale brown within. Secondaries bright 
pink; median band very broad, rapidly narrowing towards anal margin, which it does 
not reach; the submarginal pink space even, through its whole length. Expands 75 to 
85 mm. Habitat, N. and N.E. U.S. and Northward. 
Diana has the abdomen partly pink. 
Aber. Hullii, Grt. Papilio, 3, 43. Secondaries yellow in place of pink. 
Larva; Saun. Proc, Ent. Soc. Phil. 2, 29. Head dark gray intermixed with 
red; upper surface dirty brown, with light dorsal stripe; a small protuberance on 8th 
segment, and iunule on roth. Food plant, Willow and Poplar. 
48. cara, Guen, Noct. 3, 87, Walk. C.B.M. 1196, Grote, Trans. Am, Ent. Soc. 
4, 7, Streck. Rho. Het. 98, pl. 11, f. 14. 
Primaries deep blackish brown; lines narrow, distinct anteriorly; lines and veins 
shaded with olivaceous. Secondaries intense rose red, with a broad even black median 
band reaching anal margin. Expands §5—95 mm. Habitat, Middle and Hastern 
States and Northward. 
Var. carissima, Hulst, Bull. Brookl, Ent. Soc. 2, 97, Sylvia, Hy. Edw. l.c. 3,57. 
Primaries rich velvety biown, spotted and flecked with olivaceous scales, which form 
a large spot at apex. Expands 907—100 mm. Habitat, S. and E. from cara. Sylvia 
is slightly more spotted with olivaceous. 
Larva; French, Papilio 2, 157, .Koebele, (carissima) Bull. Brookl. Ent. Soc. 
4, 22.—2.5 inches in length. Color after 1st moult, whitish green; after 2nd, almost 
black; after 3rd, striped with two shades of brown, this color remaining through the 
rest of the history; the lighter color prevails dorsally the darker laterally; two subdor- 
sal black lines, and one stigmatal; a protuberance on 8th segment, pale orange, spotted 
with black; head brown, mottled with blackish carneous; it moults 5 times. Food 
plant, Willow and Poplar. 
49. amatrix, Hub. Lumprosia amatrix, Noct. f. 487, Saml. 2, f. 3, 4, Verz. 
2722, Cat. amatrix, Guen. Noct. 3, 86, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 4, 7, Streck. 
Rho, Het. 98, pl. 11, f. 15, selecta, Walk. C.B.M. 1197, nurus, Walk. C.B.M. 1195, 
Streck. f. 16, Editha, Edw. 
Primaries even light brown, nearly unicolorous; lines fine distinct; M of t.p. line 
strongly produced, teeth about equal; reniform darker, doubly annulate; subreniform 
lighter. Secondaries rosy red; median band generally much like cara, but not reach— 
