LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Female pale saffron yellow, and nearly white above. 

 California — Europe — Africa — Siberia. 



Boisd. 



11. C. vosnesenski M6n6tri6s. Figured in Cat. Petersburg Imper. Acad. 



Sci. 77. 



Nearly the size of C. caesonia; but the primaries are much more 

 pointed at the summit, and the external edge more falcate. 



The primaries have a beautiful, vivid, yellow spot on the disk ; 

 a violet reflection over all the wing ; base powdered with black, as 

 well as the-whole length of the anterior edge; a black discoidal 

 point ; the black border of the external edge is wider than in C. 

 caesonia; it is emarginated, square, somewhat, as in this species, 

 but it encroaches more on the yellow spot so as to nearly touch the 

 discoidal point, which completely destroys the likeness to a dog's 

 head, so distinctly marked in G. caesonia. 



The fringe is rosy, with some yellow spots on each side of the 

 summit. 



The secondaries are beautiful citron yellow, covered over with 

 orange yellow without any spot, only that the trace of the dis- 

 coidal point of the under side is indicated by an orange point. 



The under s'ide of the four wings as in C. caesonia, on]y that the 

 discoidal point of the primaries is smaller, and the second silver 

 point of the secondaries is larger. Head black ; antennas reddish ; 

 thorax black, with some scattered yellow hairs. 



Body black, a little yellowish below. 



California, 



M£netri£s. 



TERIAS Swains. 



Bead short, inclined, somewhat concealed under the costal edge 

 of the primaries ; eyes naked ; palpi very short, covered with short 

 hairs, scaly ; last article small, thin, naked, much shorter than the 

 preceding ; antennas slender, articulation distinct, terminating in 

 an ovoid or conic club, a little arcuate, slightly compressed late- 

 rally. 



Body rather slender ; prothorax very short. Abdomen com- 

 pressed, extending the length of the secondaries. Wings thin, 



