﻿134 CLEMENS' SYNOPSIS OF 



edged with white, and a row of lateral somewhat oval patches, blackish and crimson behind, also edged 

 with white; a row of subdorsal dots between this and dorsal patches; prolegs crimson, with crimson 

 patches on the sides of the tenth and eleventh segments. Horn yellow at the base and black terminally. 

 Abbot & Smith. 



Pupation. — The larva enters the pupa state in Georgia about the latter part of May, and appears as a 

 perfect insect during the middle of June. (Abbot & Smith.) In Texas there are two broods of perfect 

 insects, according to the dates of capture, one during the entire month of April and another in July. 



Food-plants. — Gaura biennis. 



Geographical distribution.- — Georgia, Texas. 



10. P. Clarki^e Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. X. 2me p. ser. 318. 



The appearance (port) and size of Gaurge of Georgia. Superior wings of an olive green, with 

 the extremity faintly tinted with a little greenish white and a transverse whitish, nearly straight 

 band. Inferior wings of the same yellow color as the European CEnotherae with a little black border. 

 The four wings of an olivaceous green beneath, with a whitish band on the inferior wings. Body 

 olivaceous. 



California. 



UNZELA Walker. 



Body fusiform, rather stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi as usual. Antennas 

 rather slender. Abdomen much less than twice the length of the thorax. Legs 

 moderately stout; hind tibiae with four rather short spurs. Wings moderately broad, 

 not long. Fore wings straight along the costa, rounded at the tips ; exterior border 

 slightly oblique, forming a very obtuse and much rounded angle in the middle, with 

 a slight excavation in front and two shorter and more distinct indentations behind. 

 Hind wings rounded at the tips ; exterior border slightly denticulated, somewhat exca- 

 vated toward the interior angle. 



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11. U. ? Javyx. — Sphinx Japyx Cramer,!. 137, pi. 87, f. C; Enyo Japix Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 132, 

 1416 ; Unzela ? Japyx Walker, p. 162. 

 Ferruginous brown. Abdomen purplish with testaceous bands on the hind portions of the segments 

 and a white transverse band at the base of the abdomen. Thorax dark brown. Anterior wings dark 

 brown from the base to the middle, with two somewhat roseate, separated, oblique lines crossing the 

 middle of the -disc and a round spot at the base margined with roseate ; terminal portion of the wing- 

 greenish with a black spot on costa at about the origin of post-apical nervule, another beneath the tip on 

 posterior margin and a larger one at the inner angle, containing a small blue spot. Posterior wings dark 

 brown, somewhat roseate on inner margin, with a black terminal line. 



THYREUS Swainson. 



The body is obtuse, broad and stout. The head is moderate, the front obtuse, 

 nearly vertical, uniformly broad and thickly haired ; the palpi very hairy, rather 

 short and obtuse ; the eyes small : the tongue, when unrolled, reaches to about the 

 fourth or fifth abdominal segment ; the antennae taper at the extremity and end in a 

 long hook without seta. The abdomen is broad and rather short, a little more than 



