308 Is'OCTUTD.^'. 



the tibisB and tarsi banded with black. Fore wing gre}^- white 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous ; a subbasal black bar from costa ; 

 antemedial line, black, oblique, waved, connected by a short streak 

 in submedian fold wdth the black medial line which is obliquely 

 incurved from costa to lower angle of cell, then- incurved and 

 dentate ; a minute black spot in middle of cell ; reniform small, 

 defined by black ; postmedial line black defined on outer side by 

 white, dentate, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line black 

 defined on outer side by white, waved, incurved at vein 5 and below 

 vein 3 ; a fine terminal black line ; cilia chequered white and black. 

 Hind wing Avhite suffused with fuscous brown, the veins darker ; 

 a slightly sinuous white postmedial band ; a terminal series of 

 brown striae defined on inner side by white ; cilia chequered white 

 and brown ; the underside white, the costal and terminal ai-eas 

 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and narrow sinuoiis 

 medial, postmedial, and subterminal bands. 



Hah. Formosa, Eantaizan, type f 6 in Coll. Wileman. Eccp, 

 46 millim. 



8182. Diphthera furcilla. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 7.) 



Vlaiycerura furcilla, Pack. Pl:oc.l^]llt■. Soc.Pliil. iii.p. 374 (1864) ; Stretch, 

 Zjg. & Bomb. p. 230, pi. 9. f. 15 ; Smith, Cat. JSToct. N. Am. p. 31. 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with reddish brown ; abdomen 

 white with diffused red-brown bands. Fore wing white irrorated 

 with brown, the postmedial and terminal areas suffused with brown ; 

 small black-brown subbasal spots on costa and below the cell ; a 

 strono- erect and almost straight black-brown antemedial line and 

 similar medial line ; a slight brown discoidal lunule ; postmedial 

 line black-brown, closely approximated to the cell and slightly 

 angled outwards beyond lower angle, then bent iuAvards to the 

 medial line at submedian fold, then oblique to inner margin ; sub- 

 terminal line rather diffused, white, angled outwards below vein 7 

 and at vein 4, incurved at cliscal fold and below vein 3 ; cilia 

 chequered brown and white. Hind wing white tinged in parts 

 with red-brown and with diff'used sinuous reddish brown medial and 

 subterminal bands ; the imderside with dark brown antemedial and 

 medial bars from costa. 



Hah. Canada, Renfrew Co., 1 S ; U.S.A., Eastern and Middle 

 States, New York, Evans Center (Grofe), 1 S , Minnesota. Uxp. 

 44-46 millim. 



Larva. Lintner, N.Y. State Cabinet Ana. Eep. xxvi. p. 131, f. 7. 



Head red, the frons with paler ^-shaped mark and slight reticu- 

 lations ; body dull red, each somite with an irregular bright red 

 band ; dorsal line whitish on a grey stripe ; a distinct lateral grey 

 stripe, with four depressed black spots arranged in a quadrangle on 

 each somite from the 3rd to the 8th ; substigmatal fold white in 

 front and red behind on each somite ; the tubercles with bunches 

 of red hair of unequal length, somewhat yellowish on the anterior 



