Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States 665 



1. C. regalis Fabricius. Fore wing grayish olive, more rarely purple, with 

 orange-red veins and. pale yellow spots; a yellow spot at base, one near end of 

 cell, and a broken postmedial series; hind wing mostly orange, somewhat redder 

 on the veins, with a large yellow area toward costa and a smaller one toward 

 inner margin, neither reaching outer margin; rarely, with some olive-gray shades 

 between veins. Body orange-red, striped with yellow. In variety infernalis 

 Strecker, the yellow on the wings and body is replaced with orange -red; in 

 variety ssengeri Neumoegen, the body and markings of the fore wings are wholly 

 yellow. 110-160 mm. (H 10:3. H 1:4, larva). 



Caterpillar blue or green; more rarely, brown or pinkish, with oblique dark 

 and light lateral shades, which are often more or less orange, and black horns, the 

 longer of which are orange at the base. Leg-plates orange. A pair of large 

 squarish black dorsal patches on second incisure of the body, separated by a fine 

 mid-dorsal line; smaller patches on the incisures in front and behind. Food, many 

 shrubs and trees; including the walnut family, persimmon, sweet gum, and 

 cotton. There is one brood, the moth flying in June. 



Massachusetts to Illinois, Missouri, and south; rare northward. New York: 

 Brockport, Ut-ica, Lansingburg, Albany, Oak Hill, Clermont, Poughkeepsie, New 

 Windsor, Peekskill, South Nyack, Staten Island, Long Island. 



2. C. sepulcralis Grote and Robinson. Dull brown with a darker shade over the 

 end of the cell and usually a small yellow spot at the base of the fore wing; hind 

 wing with a little reddish shading. 75-100 mm. (H 41:5). 



June; one brood. Caterpillar dull brown with irregular mottled oblique stripes 

 on sides, and rather short orange horns, the front ones being little if at all longer 

 than the caudal horn. Black spot on incisure of thorax smaller than in C. regalis 

 and not divided. Food, pine (pitch and white). 



Southern Maine and New York to Florida; very rare north of Florida. 



2. EACLES Hiibner 



(Basilona Boisduval, Dryocampa) 



Palpi smaller than in Citheronia, not at all projecting beyond the front; 

 male antenna? with a couple more segments pectinate (about 20 in all). Fore, 

 wing with R„ lost (fig. 420), middle discocellular right-angled at middle and 

 relatively long, in some species longer than lower discocellular. Hind wing with 

 Ri lost. Female much larger than male. 



1. E. imperialis Drury. Lemon yellow with diffuse dull-rose markings; ante- 

 medial line far out, strongly irregular, and excurved; postmedial line oblique, 

 running to apex, on fore wing, and straight across hind wing. Discal spots 

 annulate. Disc of thorax, tegulse, and dorsum of abdomen largely dull rose. 

 Wings with scattered blackish points. Male with considerable pinkish shading 

 on basal part of fore wing, and a triangular area on outer margin, its upper half 

 bounded by the postmedial line. Variety punctatissima Neumcegen is very heavily 

 dusted with blackish, the dark dominating the yellow; race didyma Beauvois, from 

 the Gulf strip, in the male has the yellow of the fore wing confined to a triangle 

 resting on the middle of the costa, and the outer part of the hind wing brown; 

 in the female, the base of the fore wing and 'outer part of both wings brown. 

 The Texan i*ace, nobilis Neumopsren, has a dark russet ground. $ 100, 5 150 mm. 

 (H 11:13 J 1 ; 10:2 ?). 



June; one brood. Caterpillar with sparse but long and conspicuous white 

 secondary hair; spines about 3 or 4 mm. long, on second and third segments 

 of body, and caudal horn, the others rudimentary. Color green, brown, or nearly 

 black, the dark forms often with large russet patches about the spiracles; horn's 

 usually yellow, and anal and leg plates dusted and edged with yellow. Food, many 

 trees, especially pine, maple, oak, cherry, cedar. 



Ottawa, Canada, and south. New York: general from Peru southward. 



