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to lower angle of cell, and a round spot in submedian interspace, 

 the terminal area as above, but the black continued as a narrow 

 band to tornus and angled inwards at vein 1. 



Ab. 1. Uneella. Fore wing more suffused with black, the oblique 

 dark shade from termen absent. 



Ab. 2. suffasa. Fore wing with the inner area suffused with black 

 and confluent with the strong oblique black shade from termen 

 below apex, 



Ab. 3. jair. Fore wing tinged with chocolate-brown, 



Ab, 4, nerissa. Fore wing almost entirely deep chocolate-brown, 

 the markings obscured. 



Hah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, JSTew York, 8 S , Ohio, Columbus, 

 1 c5' , Georgia, 2 c? , Florida, 1 S , Central States, Missouri, New- 

 haven, 1 $ , Kansas, 2 c? , 2 5 , Texas, Dallas {Boll), 4 c? , 1 $ , 

 Arizona, Prescott (Oslar), 3 c? , 1 5, Tucson (Oslar), 1 c? , 3 § . 

 Exj). 40-50 millim. 



Larva. Guen. Noct. iii. p. 106; Coquillett, Papilio, i. p. 7. 



Dull greenish yellow, a pale dorsal stripe defined on each side by 

 black ; 8th somite with slight prominence ; ventral surface greenish 

 white with a series of black spots ; head grey with a pair of white 

 spots on upper part efface. Food-plant, Burr-Oak. 



Genus AUDEA. 



Type. 

 Audea, Wlk. xiii. 1134(1857) hi2nmct,ata. 



Proboscis fully dereloped ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round; antennie of male ciliated ; thorax clotlied with scales and hair mixed 

 and without crests ; all the tibia3 spined ; abdomen with some rough hair at base 

 but without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex ronnded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell more than half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from 

 angle or shortly stalked ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male with some erect hair on upperside of shaft towards 

 base. 



A. Antennse of male with fasciculate cilia ; fore coxje, femora, 

 and tibiae tufted with very long hair, the mid and hind 

 tibiae fringed with long hair above ; abdomen of female 

 with lateral tufts of scales on penultimate segment. 

 a. Underside of fore wing clothed with silky androconia 

 from near base to postmedial line. 

 a}. Fore wing with small spot below end of cell con- 

 nected by a sinus with the postmedial line. 

 a^. Hind wing of male suffused with fuscous and 

 with some ochreous on basal costal area, of 



female with the inner area fuscous endophaa. 



h^. Hind wing of female with the inner area white ... hypostigmaia. 



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