34 LEPXDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



2. T. lisa Boisd. Boisd. Spec. Gen. I, 661. Figured in Boisd. et Lee. 



53, pi. 19. Boisd. Spec. Gen. pi. 2. T. smilax Godt. 



Wings citron yellow above. Primaries have the base powdered 

 with blackish ; a small black discoidal point ; a black border, 

 beginning at the middle of the upper edge, dilated at the summit, 

 and dentated within the whole length. 



Secondaries have a narrow black border, dentated within, obso- 

 lete towards the anal angle. 



Fringe of all the wings rosy above. 



Under side of primaries yellow, with a small black discoidal 

 point, and the upper edge embroidered with reddish. 



Under side of secondaries yellow, sprinkled with obscure atoms, 

 with three small blackish points, of which one is on the base, and 

 two on the disk ; a blackish, undulate, transverse, macular ray, 

 followed on the external angle by a roundish, ferruginous spot. 



The four wings are edged with red ferruginous, interrupted by 

 small black points, and separated from the fringe by a thin line of 

 silver white. 



Female pale saffron yellow, with the base of the superiors more 

 densely powdered with blackish. 



Larva, which feeds on Cassia and Glycina, is green, with four 

 longitudinal whitish rays. 



Chrysalis green. 



Southern States. — Expands nearly two inches. 



Boisd. 



3. T. delia Cram. Figured in Cram. Pap. Exot. pi. 273. Herbst. pi. 17. 



Boisd. et Lee. pi. 18. T. daira Godt. 



Primaries citron yellow, with a wide black border, dentated 

 within, ending abruptly before reaching the internal angle. Upper 

 edge sprinkled with blackish ; a blackish longitudinal band, rather 

 wide, parallel to the internal edge, bordered with marigold below, 

 and not extending to the internal angle. 



Secondaries yellow ; a black, marginal, triangular spot on the 

 outer angle, in a line with some small, indistinct, marginal points 

 or streaks of the same color, situated on' the extremity of the 

 nervures. 



Fringe of all the wings above rosy. 



Under side of primaries yellow, with the edge and summit wine 

 red, and two small black discoidal points. 



