CELAMA. 21 



<!Osta, Hind wing whitish, tinged with fnscoiis towards apex ; a 

 discoidal point. 



Hah. U.S.A., Atlantic States, IJ 2 $ , type trinotata ; California, 

 2 2 ? type sexmacidata. Exp. 20 millim. 



Larva, Dyar, Insect Life, iii. p. 61, & Psyche, vi. p. 110. 



Immature : Greenish yellow ; warts of rows 1 and 2 black ; eyes 

 black ; mouth brown ; frontal triangular plate with a small spot 

 and the two plates above it with confluent patches. 



Mature : Head round, somewhat retracted ; pale yellow, thickly 

 marked with black ; maxillae brown ; two large black spots ou 

 frontal shields ; large patches on eyes and area behind them, with 

 smaller patches in front of them ; body stout, somewhat flattened, 

 slightly attenuate towards extremity ; four pairs of prolegs ; cervical 

 spot double, rounded behind, and with a pair of yellow warts in 

 front; three series of warts, the wart of series 2 on 2nd somite 

 small; a row of small warts above base of legs ; all the warts with 

 a few white hairs ; pale yellow, with diffused blackish dorsal line 

 and fainter subdorsal line ; the warts of series 1 and 2 black and 

 hrown, of series 3 ochre. Length 12 millim. 



Food-plant, HamameUs virginica, feeding exposed on upperside 

 of leaf without web and not eating the lower epidermis. 



Cocoon formed of small pieces of bark laid together side by side, 

 truncate anteriorly, tapering posteriorly. 



The moth emerges in early spring. 



35. Celama innocua. (Plate XYIII. fig. 25.) 



Mia innocua, Butl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 671 ; Kii-by, Cat. Het. p. 379. 

 JSfola codimacula, Stgr. Eom. Mem. iii. p. 182, pi. 10. f. 6 (1887) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 374. 



White ; palpi brown at sides ; tibise and tarsi banded with brown ; 

 abdomen with blackish tuft on 1st segment. Fore wing tinged 

 with fulvous ; an elongate fulvous patch at base of costa, with some 

 black scales on its lower edge ; fulvous antemedial and medial tri- 

 angular patches on costa, with tufts of black scales at their lower 

 extremities, the former with the antemedial black line arising from 

 it, slightly angled in submedian fold, then oblique ; the postmedial 

 punctiform line bent outwards below costa and inwards below vein 3 ; 

 an irregularly-waved subterminal indistinct line bent inwards to 

 costa. Hind wing with the terminal half tinged with brown, 

 especially the veins ; a fine terminal line. 



Hah. Amue, type f S costimacula in Coll. Staudinger ; Eokmosa 

 (Hohsoyi), 1 2 type. Exjo. 14-16 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Fore wing with the antemedial line less angled below 

 the cell. Hah. Japan. 



36. Celama minna. (Plate XVIII. fig. 19.) 



Nola minna, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) viii. p. 315 (1881^ ; Kii-by, Cat. Het. 



p. 378. 

 Nola hi/emalis, Stretch, Ent. Am. i. p. 102 (1885) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 374. 



.cJ . White, slightly irrorated with brown ; palpi brown at sides ; 



