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antennse red-brown ; palpi black-brown above ; frons with blackish 

 mixed ; i^ectus red-brown in front ; tarsi ringed black-brown and 

 white ; abdomen grey- white mixed with brown, the crests blackish 

 at base. Fore Aving silvery white irrorated with reddish brown ; 

 oblique subbasal black bars from costa and cell ; antemedial line 

 black, angled outwards below costa and in submedian fold, where it 

 is connected by a black streak with the medial line, which is rather 

 diffused, dark, oblique and sinuous below the cell ; orbicular round, 

 defined by black and with some blackish in centre ; reniform with 

 curved black line on its inner side and small lunule beyond it ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, blackish, bent outwards below 



Fig. 96. — Charadra chridens, c? ■ 



costa, then dentate, incu.rved at discal fold, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 and angled inwards at submedian fold ; the costa beyond it 

 with alternating black and white marks ; subterminal line blackish, 

 oblique to discal fold where it is bent inwards, then slighter, 

 dentate, and with small black spot on it at submedian fold ; a faint 

 dentate brown shade before termen ; a terminal series of strong 

 black striae. Hind wing white tinged with red-brown ; a terminal 

 series of black-brown striae and oblique brown mark at tornus ; 

 the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown, an 

 oblique brown striga from middle of costa, slight discoidal lunule, 

 and rather diffused postmedial line excurved beyond the cell and 

 ending at tornus. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the inner half of medial area and the 

 postmedial area suffused with blackish. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg (Wallis), 1 6 ; U.S.A., 

 Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Evans Center ( Grote), 1 d" , 2 5 , 

 (leorgia, 1 J type contigua, Florida {DoMhleday'), 1 $ type 

 circultfera, Texas. Tlxp. 44-52 millim. 

 Larva. Saunders, Can. Ent. ii. p. 145. 



Head greenish white, with large black lateral patches and smaller 

 patches below them, slightly bilobed, the mandibles black with 

 lateral white streaks ; body pale greenish white with transverse 

 series of tubercles of the same colour from which arise tufts of long 

 tine silky white hairs and one or two black hairs at sides, the hair 

 on 1st somite overhanging the head ; dorsal line pale green ; 

 stigmata white defined b^^ pale reddish. 10. 



