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and two black metathoracic spots. Abdomen brownish ferrugi- 

 nous, with a row of dorsal brown spots and a double row of white 

 spots, and with lateral alternate black and narrow white demi- 

 bands. Anterior wings dull ferruginous, or dark brownish varied 

 with white and blackish ; a white spot at the base, with a blackish 

 band, white margined towards the base, crossing the middle of the 

 disk ; discal spot white and black margined, a band of blackish 

 lines crossing the middle of the nervules, margined posteriorly 

 broadly with whitish, and black circlets on the posterior ends of 

 median nervules ; apical line black, white margined toward costa. 

 Posterior wings whitish, with an indistinctly double, median black- 

 ish band, joined near inner margin by a blackish patch from the 

 base and a broad terminal dark brown band edged above with 

 blackish. Sometimes the wing is blackish brown, with a central 

 white line and a fainter one above it, with white at the base. 



Mature Larva. Head green, with a pale blue line on each side. 

 Body pea green, with lateral oblique pink bands edged below 

 with white : caudal horn crimson. {Abbot & Smith.') 



Pupation. Pupa reddish brown ; tongue-case not apparent. 

 Pupation began .May 11th, and the imago appeared June 19th. 

 Another entered the pupa state August 25th, and appeared April 

 26th, in Georgia. {Abbot & Smith.) 



Food-plants. Prinos glaber; Winterberry. 



Mexico ; Georgia ; Massachusetts ; Connecticut. 



Clemens. 



CERATOMIA Harris. 



Size large. Body usually thick and long. The head small, 

 nearly sessile, and somewhat depressed ; front broad and almost 

 vertical, pilose or sub- tufted ; the eyes small and scarcely salient ; 

 the palpi rather short and slender, nearly horizontal and not iden- 

 tified with the front ; tongue about one-third as long as the body, 

 not as long as the thorax ; the antennae longer than the thorax, 

 ending in a short hook with seta. The thorax is thick, sub-glo- 

 bose, but little advanced anterior -to the base of the fore wings. 

 The abdomen is- cylindrical, tapering near the extremity, and 

 nearly thrice or full thrice the length of the thorax. The legs 

 stout and the hind tibiae with two long internal and two short 



