LEPIDOPTERA— NYMPOALIDAE— SYNCHLOE CROOALE. 765 



a small web, and draw the leaves of the plant together. Chrysalis, ash 

 color, with a slight metallic reflection. Dorsal region with three rows of 

 slightly raised tubercles. The anal extremity is much incurved." 



SYNCHLOE, Boisd. 

 tSYNCHLOE CROOALE, Edw. 

 Plate XXXVII, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4. 

 Synchloe Orocale, Edw., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1874. 



Male. — Expands 1.7 to 1.9 inches. Upper side brownish black, spotted 

 with white ; primaries have a submarginal row of points, sometimes com- 

 plete from apex to lower branch of median, but usually in part obsolete, 

 the two spots on first and second median interspaces only appearing ; a 

 sinuous extradiscal row of points or small spots across the entire wing, 

 seven in all, but sometimes the one next inner margin accompanied by an 

 eighth ; a discal row of conspicuous spots, also sinuous, usually incomplete 

 by the absence of one spot from upper median interspace ; this spot when 

 present minute, and a narrow spot in cell often wanting ; secondaries have 

 a transverse row of spots on middle of wing, which are regular, narrow, 

 elongated, and equal ; at anal angle, a fulvous patch, which extends a little 

 distance up the abdominal margin ; fringes white ; black at tips of nervules. 

 Under side more decidedly brown ; the spots on primaries repeated ; the 

 submarginal enlarged, mostly lunate ; the extradiscal also enlarged ; the 

 discal nearly as above ; two spots in cell, one near arc, one near base ; a 

 third below the origin of lower branch of median ; shoulder ferruginous ; 

 secondaries have a submarginal series of yellow lunules ; a broad yellow 

 band across disk ; a narrow yellow stripe near base, from costal edge to sub- 

 median nervure ; half way between submarginal spots and discal band a 

 series of yellow points, tortuous, commencing on costal margin near the 

 band, crossing the wing in a double curve, the last point being on sub- 

 median interspace ; these marks vary from points to conspicuous spots, and 

 sometimes are nearly or quite obsolete ; in middle of cell a yellow point ; 

 anal spot as above, ferruginous ; the upper part of abdominal margin edged 

 with yellow ; a yellow patch on shoulder. 



Body above blackish-brown, below gray-brown ; legs ferruginous ; 



