﻿170 CLEMENS' SYNOPSIS OF 



Dark brownish cinereous. Head and thorax paler on the sides, with a rather broad blackish brown 

 stripe on the middle of tegulse, extending to prothorax and edged above with two lines of the same hue, and 

 with a brownish dorsal line on the disc of thorax; metathoracic spots, black. Abdomen with a dorsal 

 black line and alternate black and whitish demi-bands on the sides ; beneath white, with central blackish 

 spots. Anterior wings brownish cinereous, with a black margined white discal spot, through which passes 

 a short blackish discal dash, and a smaller one above it ; with blackish brown costal marks over the disc, the 

 two most posterior of which reach to the discal spot and are joined or nearly joined at an angle by two more 

 or less distinct lines from the inner margin of the base ; a broad diffuse blackish brown apical streak with a 

 costal line above it in apical interspace, and blackish brown streaks in the interspaces, except the medio- 

 superior ; an abbreviated blackish brown line edged exteriorly with grayish near the terminal margin. 

 Posterior wings yellowish white, with a black spot at the base, a median and broad marginal band black. 

 Length of the body 16 lines ; expansion of the wings 35 lines. 



Smithsonian Institution. Capt. Pope's collection in Texas. 



Var. A. a male. — Brownish, with two distinct dark brown lines from the inner margin of base and the 

 middle of the costa, angulated on the disc; over the median nervules the wing is dark brown, with faintly 

 indicated irregular lines crossing the middle of the nervules to the costa and grayish spots exterior to them. 

 Length of the body 22 lines ; expansion of the wings 54 lines. 



Near Jalapa, Mexico. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Var. B. a male. — Blackish cinereous; two distinct black angulated lines crossing the posterior portion 

 of the disc from the inner margin of base ; with a band of blackish brown lines crossing the middle of the 

 nervules. Length of the body 20 lines; expansion of the wings 47 lines. 



Near Jalapa, Mexico. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Mr. Walker's lugens is probably one of these varieties of sordida. 



Egg. ? 



Young Larva. f 



Mature Larva. ? 



Pupation. ? 



Food-plants. ? 



Geographical distribution. — Mexico, Texas, Massachusetts. 



66. S. PLEBEIA.— Fair. Sp. Ins. II. 146, 31 ; Mant. Ins. II. 95, 34 ; Ent. Sjst. III. 1, 367, 36 ; Gmel. 

 ed. Syst. JVat. I. 5, 2385, 91 ; Harris, p. 296, 9 ; Stephens, I. 222, 7 ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 53, f. 25. 

 Anceryx plebeia Walker, p. 224. 



Head and thorax dark gray, with a transverse black line on prothorax continued to the tegulse, which 

 are pale grayish beneath it. Abdomen gray, with a slender black dorsal line and a black stripe on each 

 side containing whitish spots. Anterior wings gray, with a short black stripe at the base of the inner 

 margin, two very oblique, short black lines from the basal portion of costa to the disc, sometimes uniting 

 with the line from the base on the disc, and two distinct serrated black lines crossing the middle of the 

 nervules from about the origin of post-apical to the lower third of inner margin ; black streaks in all the 

 interspaces, that in medio-superior contained in a white streak, and short white streaks on the terminal 



black costal marks, and with discal and exterior streaks ; two whitish discal dots, the fore one occasionally 

 obsolete. Hind wings black, with two whitish undulating bands ; cilise white. Length of the body 17 — 19 lines; 

 of the wings 42 — 46 lines. 

 Mexico. 



