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of pale and fuscous dentate marks ; the veins of terminal area 

 streaked with black, and ^Yith a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing semihy aline white, the costa and cilia at apes slightly 

 tinged with brown. 



2 . Fore wing suffused with fuscous, leaving the costal area to 

 end of cell and the terminal area brown. 



Ifcch. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New Tork, Georgia, 1 c? , Kansas, 

 3 d', 2 $ , Texas, 1 d,o 2, Florida, St. John's Bhif£ (Douhledai/), 

 1 c? , 1 ? , California ; Bermtjda, Challenger Coll., 2 $ ; Bahamas, 

 Nassau {Bonhote), 1 $ ; St. Domingo (Tweedie), 1 d" , 2 $ , type 

 decernens ; Mexico, Jalapa {Trujillo), 4 c? , 2 5 , type f lutea 

 in Coll. Druce, Mexico city (Godmcni), 1 c? , Patycuaro (Godman), 



1 5 , Misantla (Godman), 1 5 ; Br. Honduras, Behze, 1 c? , 2 $ ; 

 Guatemala {Rodriguez), 1 c? , 1 § ; Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. 

 (Undertvood), 3 c? , Irazu (Rogers), 1 cJ ; Panama, Chiriqui (Cham- 

 pion), 1 c?, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Colombia; Venezuela, 1 c? ; 

 Brazil, Pernambuco (Ridley), 1 (^ , 1 5 , Rio Janeiro, 1 J' ; Peru, 

 Lima, 2^,55, Huancha (J. J. Walker), 1 $ ; Chile (Edmonds), 



2 d" , 1 $ ; Argentina, Goya (Perrins), 1 $ . E:q). 38-44 millim. 

 Egg. French, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 297. 



Diam. -03 inch, globular, white, base broad, with vertical ridges, 

 of which 12 reaching apex alternate with double the number of 

 different lengths, the ridges connected by slender bars. 



Larva. (Redescribed.) Head 3'5 millim., pale brown, pale reticu- 

 late, vertical band dark brown, strongly angled at top of clypeus, 

 which is brown filled. Cervical shield well corniMed, shining brown, 

 cut by a pale dorsal line and traces of a subdorsal one. Dorsal space 

 broadly pale, faintly brown, clouded on the centres of the segments, 

 heaviest next the obscure, pale, dorsal line. Skin rather thin, 

 smooth. Lateral space brown with faint pale subdorsal and lateral 

 lines. Substigmatal band broad, distinctly but not brightly or very 

 uniformly white-pigmented, the subvertical area becoming trans- 

 lucent. Tubercles dark brown, rather large and distinctly coraified • 

 anal plate brown. 



A general feeder. — H. G. D, 



628. Feltia canities. (Plate LXYIII. fig. 17.) 

 Feridroma canities, Grote, ined. 



Head and thorax pale red-broAvu mixed with white, the scales 

 pencilled with white ; pectus mostly white ; abdomen white, dorsally 

 tinged with pale red-brown. Fore wing pale reddish brown, irro- 

 rated with fuscous, especially towards costa : an indistinct double, 

 ■waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, 

 antemedial line acutely dentate inwards on vein 1 ; claviform a 

 short fuscous streak ; orbicular and reniform small with fuscous 

 centres, and whitish annuli defined by black, the former round ; 

 the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4 and incurved in 

 submedian fold ; the subterminal line represented by a series of 



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