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General color of the body is pale green and dotted with numerous 

 yellow points. Central ridge is bordered in front with yellow. 



The larva feeds on the under side of the leaf of maple in Sep- 

 tember, and the imago appears in the spring. — Clemens, Pro. 

 A. K S., 1860, p. 157. 



FIMELA Clemens. Lagoa? Walker. 

 P. lanuginosa Clemens. Proc. A. N. S. Phila. p. 156, 1860. 



Female ? The wings of my specimen are badly worn and de- 

 nuded. Antennae pale brownish-yellow. Face dark brownish; 

 head and tail dull yellow. The anterior tibiae and all the tarsi 

 are dark brownish. The undenuded portion of the fore wings at 

 the base, is woolly and pale brownish-yellow. 



Male? Antennae yellowish-white. Face and the fore legs black- 

 ish-brown, the hairs white and all the tarsi blackish-brown toward 

 the ends. Thorax white, very slightly tinted with yellowish. Ab- 

 domen rather deep, dull yellow. Wings white, slightly tinted with 

 yellowish ; fore wings woolly toward the base, with a dark brownish 

 discoloration along the upper part of the disk and the costa ad- 

 joining it. 



Clemens. 



ADONETA Clemens. 

 A. voluta Clemens. Proc. A. N. S. p. 158, 1860. 



Reddish-brown, somewhat paler in the ? than the % . Fore 

 wings with a dingy yellow streak along the base of the inner mar- 

 gin, extended toward the disk above the middle of the wing, and 

 on this portion are two or three blackish dots. On the hind por- 

 tion of the disk is a short black streak. In the % there is another 

 short black streak along the median nervure and its last branch, 

 with a curved row of three black submarginal spots. The lower 

 streak and the spots are as distinct in the ? as in the %. In 'both 

 sexes there is a subapical dingy yellow patch, lightly bordered 

 behind with whitish. Hind margin spotted with black. Hind 

 wing pale reddish-brown. 



Larva. Body semi-cylindrical, tapering posteriorly, and round- 

 ed obtusely in front. Nearly smooth, but with a subvascular row 

 of small fleshy, minutely spined papulae on each side of the vascular 

 line, three of which, placed anteriorly, are separated and distinct, 



