CHAMTRIS. ARGILLOPHORA. 481 



■with brown, the tarsi black ringed with M'hite ; abdomen whitish 

 dorsally banded with grey, the crests rufous mixed with white. 

 Fore wing white, the medial area towards costa and inner margin 

 and the terminal area suffused with blue-grey ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a blackish point on costa and slight streak in cell ; some 

 brown suffusion above base of inner margin ; a broad oblique blue- 

 grey and yellow-brown antemedial band, its inner edge excurved a'-. 

 middle, the very incomplete antemedial line near its outer edge 



Fig. 137. — Cliamyris cerintha, (^ . \. 



black slightly defined by white on inner side, formed by a curved 

 mark below costa and mark angled outwards below the cell, 

 obscurely double towards inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 

 extremely slightly defined by blackish, the former elliptical, the 

 latter irregular and somewhat constricted at middle, a very slight 

 oblique streak between them ; traces of a treble waved blue-grey 

 medial line ; postmedial line with dark mark at costa, strongly bent 

 outwards and almost obsolete below costa, then represented by a 

 grey-brown band with interrupted lunulate black line on its outer 

 edge, slightly incurved at discal fold, excurved and interrupted by 

 white streaks on the veins at middle, then incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; a fine lunulate white subterminal line 

 with black spot before it below costa ; cilia white at base, rufous at 

 tips. Hind wing semihyaline white with terminal series of dark 

 striae ; the underside with small brown discoidal spot. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, Southern, and Central 

 States, Massachusetts {Burg), 1 S , 1 $ , New York (Doubleday, 

 Paclcard), 2d", 3 $, Schenectady {Lintner), 1 c? , 1 $ , Evans 

 Center {Groie), 1 c? , Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Merrick), 

 2 d , Virginia, 1 $ , Florida, 1 cT • ^^T- 30-36 millim. 



Larva. Head green with two black lines, approximate at vertex. 

 Body slender with stiff single hairs, green, a white subdorsal line, 

 the dorsal space purple-brown. Food-plant : "Wild Cherry (Prunus 

 serotina). — H. G. D. 



Genus ARGILLOPHORA. 



Type. 



Argillophora, Grote, Bull. Buff. See. Nat. Sci. i. p. 124 (1873) funiiUa. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi upturneci, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of irons and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frous .smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennje of female with bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the mesothorax with 

 slight paired crests, the metathorai with spreading crest ; tibJEe slightly 

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