EULONCUE. 



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A. Fore wing witli terminal series of small black spots. 



a. Fore wing with tbe ground-colour wliite ohlinita. 



b. Fore wing with the ground-colour yellowish arioch. 



B. Fore wing without terminal series of black spots. 



a. F'ore wing bluish white irrorated with fuscous lanceolarla. 



b. Fore wing black-brown slightly irrorated with white... iiisolita. 



3758. Eulonche oWinita. 



Thalmna oblinita, Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 187, ii1. 94 (1797) ; 



Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 1(39, pi. iv. ff. G, 13, 14 ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 46. 

 Acronycta salicis, Harr. Ent. Corresp. 1863, p. 314, f. 44. 



Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous ; palpi with the 2nd 

 joint black above ; antennae blackish ; abdomen white slightly 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing white irrorated with fascous, the 

 area below and beyond lower an^le of cell whiter aiid a whitish fascia 

 from reniform to termen below apex ; subbasal line represented by 

 an oblique black striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double filled in with white, strongly angled inwards on the veins 

 and outwards in the interspaces ; orbicular slightly and incompletely 

 defined by black, elongate elliptical ; reniform defined by black 

 points and with brownish centre, a slight diffused oblique dark 



Fig. 20. — Eulonche oblinita, cJ . \. 



bar above it from costa ; postmedial line indistinct, stroDgly bent 

 outwards below costa, then strongly dentate and with slight black 

 lunules on it, strongly incurved below vein 3, some blackish points 

 beyond it on costa ; traces of a white subterminal line slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and with minute dark streaks beyond it 

 in the interspaces ; a terminal series of small black spots. Hind 

 wing pure white, with series of black points on termen from apex 

 to vein 2 ; the underside with small blackish discoidal spot. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 1 5 > jN'ova Scotia (liedman), 1 $ , 

 Manitoba, Aweme (Griddle), 1 $ ; U.S.A., New York, 3 c? , 2 $ , 

 Evans Center (&Vo/e), 1 c? , 1 ?, Ohio, 2 J, Distr. of Columbia, 

 Florida, Kansas, 1 J , Riley Co. and West to Eocky Mts. Eny. 

 40-50 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 170, pi. viii. ff. 29-30. 



Head shining black. Eody black with a broad yellow substig- 

 matal band and a broken dotted subdorsal one ; warts large, light 

 red; each segment with a more or less distinct transverse red band j 



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