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patch over the middle of median nervules, with a pale brown apical patch above it ; marginal space rufo- 

 brownish. Posterior wings blackish at base, with a broad, median, luteous band, and a brown marginal band. 



Var. /?. Male. Pawn-color ; anterior wings gray and brown mixed, with a silvery discal spot. Posterior 

 luteous, interrupted with ferruginous along exterior margin. 



Var. y Female, iinterior wings rufescent, banded with gray and brown mixed. 



Geographical distribution. — Mexico, West Indies. 



Except in ornamentation this insect must approach Chcerocampa very closely. 



DARAPSA Walker. 



Size moderate, body rather slender and tapering. The head is small, narrow and 

 almost sessile ; the vertex subtufted, front vertical; the eyes small ; the palpi short 

 and rather slender ; the tongue about one-half as long as the body ; the antennae a 

 little longer than the thorax, slender and almost filiform, with a long hook without 

 seta. The thorax is rather short, almost globosely rounded in front. The abdomen 

 oblanceolate, thrice as long as the thorax. The anterior wings are as long, or some- 

 what longer than the body, twice and a half longer than broad across the interior 



angle ; the tips 'acuminated, the hind margin excavated rather deeply from beneath 

 the tip to medio-superior vein, and thence convex to the interior angle ; the inner 

 margin deeply concave above interior angle. Posterior wings with tips rather pointed 

 and hind margin somewhat excavated before the interior angle. Male. — Antennae 

 prismatic and ciliferous. Female. — Antennae slender and almost filiform. 



Larva. — Head very small and elongate-globose. The body tapers suddenly to the 

 head, from the anterior portion of the third segment, which, together with the fourth 

 and fifth, are much swollen. The anterior rings are retractile within the fourth. A 

 caudal horn on the eleventh segment. It is ornamented with a subdorsal line and 

 irregularly oval lateral patches. The larval transformation takes place on the 

 surface of the ground in an imperfect cocoon, consisting of vegetable debris united by 

 silken threads. 



During the day the larva conceals itself beneath a leaf, stretching out the body 

 on the midrib. 



SPECIES. 

 § Hind wings ferruginous. 



26. Chserilus. — Fawn-color, with ferruginous shades, 



27. Myron. — Pull pale green, mixed with dark green. 



29. Versicolor. — Anterior wings with olive green and whitish bands curving from base to the costa. 



§§ Hind wings red. 



28. Pholus. — Rufescent ; anterior wings blackish brown. 



§§§ Hind wings blackish 

 •30, Rhodocera. — Fawn-color; anterior wings with a cinereous tinge 



