54 BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC. VOL. VII.’ July 1884.) - 
Primaries very nearly the color of vidua; lines diffuse, not strongly distinct; t.p. 
line with M strong; sinus comparatively small; no basal dash; reniform reddish; 
reddish band beyond t.p. line; t.a. clouded with black at costa, and a heavy diffuse 
black shade from costa above reniform, through M of t.p. line to below apex. Second. 
aries black, dull gray at base; fringe white, ends of veins black. Expands 95—105 
mm. Habitat, Southern States. Food plant, Walnut. 
I have made the disposition of this species I have, as I see no 
other way out of the difficulty. It seems universally agreed that des- 
perata, Guen., is vdua, Abb, and Sm. There is no course to follow, 
but that which is always taken, to call it by the name under which it 
was first described, and under which it, its larva, and food plant 
were as well figured. The name desperafa can not properly stand. 
Mestosa is the insect called vduata by Guen.. which was only a putting 
in another form the name wdua of Abbott, whose species Guenée thought 
this was. Vidua and vwiduata are practically the same names; were 
meant to be thesame. The only solution, and the one which has been 
universally followed in the science, is to give the mistaken speciesa name, 
which I have here done. 
73. lacrymosa, Guen. Noct. 3, 93, Walk, C.B.M. 1199, lachrymosa, Grote, 
Trans. Am, Ent. Soc. 4, 19, Streck. Rho. Het. 18, pl. 3, f. 3, Ululume, Streck. 
lic. 133. 
Primaries light cinereous, heavily and quite uniformly powdered with black 
atoms; slight basal dash present; lines fairly strong, but often lost in the black pow- 
dering; t.a. line often confused and broken; t.a. line with teeth medium; reniform 
brownish; a brownish band beyond t.p. line. Secondaries black, fringe white, black 
at end of veins. Expands 75—85 mm. Habitat, lower Middle and Westein States 
and Southward. Food plant; probably Oak and Walnut. 
Ululume differs in being less strongly powdered with black, and in having with 
the lines more distinct. 
Var. Evalina, French, Papilio, 1, 110, Hmilia, Hy. Edw., l,c, 1, 117. A form 
having the basal, outer third, and inner half of the primaries nearly or quite black. 
Var. Zelica, French, Papilio 1, 110. Primaries with t.a. line inwardly, and t.a. 
line outwardly, having a black band across the wing. 
Var. Paulina, Hy. Edw., Bull. Brookl. Ent. Soc. 3, 54. Primaries black to 
t.p. line. 
74. Sappho, Streck. Rho. Het. 95, pl. 11, £ 4, French, Papilio 1, 57. 
Primaries pure white, somewhat clouded with black and light brown; lines in— 
distinct; reniform reddish; black on costa at beginning of t.a. line, and above reni— 
form. Secondaries black, fringes white or dark. Expands 75—80 mm. Habitat, 
Western States and Southward. | 
