124 Journal Nkw York. En r. Soc. Vol. ii. 



Smaller than cccropia : the discal dots without red edges and 

 the transverse outer band white with no red. Abdomen brown 

 and white banded. Thorax and basal half of fore wings deep red, 

 collar white. Discal spots rounded, triangular, only slightly pro- 

 duced. 1'. a. line arcuate, not angulated on median vein. Expanse, 

 90 — 100 mm. 



Habitat, Northeastern States, Canada to Michigan. 



S. rubra Behr. 



1S55 — Rkur, Fioc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. I, p. 46. 



1855 — Samia cioytitits BoiSDVV Ah, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., (2), Vol. Ill, p. 32 



(no desc); 1875 — Streckkr, Lep. Roph. et Het., p. 102. 

 iSOs — Phitysamia calif ornica Gkoie, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, Vol. V, p. 229 



(note). 

 1S68 — Sa/uniia ceauotlii 15EUR, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. Ill, p. 296. 



Of a color approaching Venetian red but darker, uniform, not 

 irrorate ; outer margin clay-colored, with the markings faint, 

 brownish. Transverse lines white, narrow, with black edging, but 

 with no red shade. Discal spots white, edged with black, the one 

 on primaries small, that on secondaries produced outward nearly 

 to, or through the transverse band. Thorax red ; collar, base and 

 outer bands of abdomen white. Expanse, 95 — 115 mm. 



Habitat, California to Pacific Northwest. 



(ienus Callosamia Packard. 

 1864 — Cn/losamia I'ACK.AKn, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. Ill, p. 379. 

 Sy/iopsis of species. 



A wliitisli band on collar and base of thorax ..... calleta. 

 Collar concolorous with abdomen. 



(^ without discal spots, or with very faint ones , . promethea. 



cf with dLsca! spots as in the 9 angulifera. 



C. calleta W'cstwood. 



1S53 — Saluriiia calleta Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., p. 166. 



1886 — .4ltacus calleta S.MITH, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 422. 



1882 — Platysamia polysontmata Teppeu, Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc, Vol. V, p. 66. 



Dull black or smoky; a pale stigmatal band on abdomen, 

 enclosing darker spots. A white basal band or none. T. a. band 

 of primaries white. Outer band of both wings white, edged with 

 ferruginous and dotted with black. Discal spots angular, small, 

 white, without edging. 'I'erminal space mouse-gray, much orna- 

 mented with a black line and sub-triangular spots centered with 

 bluish scales; the most prominent of these between veins 6— 7 



