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of long black and pearl-colored scales shaped somewhat like the 

 handle of a spoon. Great disparity in the size of the sexes. 



Harris. 



4. G. occidentalis Walk. Eicifolia Sm. Abb. Americana Harris. Fig- 

 ured in Smith & Abbot, II, pi. 51. 



Ferruginous ; ciliae of the wings marked with white ; primaries 



with oblique blackish fasciae, testaceous at the base, cinereous at 



the exterior margin ; secondaries with the disk partly testaceous. 



North America. 



Harris. 



CLISIOCAMPA Curtis. 



Body stout or thick. Palpi short, hardly extending beyond the 

 head ; third joint slightly acuminated. Antennae a little longer 

 than the thorax. Legs stout, pilose ; hind tibiae with two very 

 minute apical spurs. Wings more or less broad. Fore wings 

 straight in front, slightly rounded at the tip, somewhat oblique along 

 the exterior border ; first and second inferior veins almost contigu- 

 ous at the base ; third twice further from the fourth than from the 

 second. Male, antennae deeply pectinated. Abdomen robust, 

 hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Female, antennae very 

 slightly pectinated. Abdomen thick, extending for one-third of 

 its length beyond the hind wings. (0. B. M.) 



1. C. decipiens Walk. Castrensis Smith & Abbot. 



Color rust or reddish-brown, variegated with gray, especially on 



the middle and base of the fore wings. Anterior wings crossed 



obliquely by two dingy white parallel lines; margin ciliate and 



whitish. Hind wings without lines or spots ; a portion of the 



costal margin whitish. Beneath darker. Length of the body 5 — 6 



lines; of the wings 10 — 12 lines. 



United States. 



Walker. 



Harris, Ins. of Mass., has called this species Americana, but 

 that name is preoccupied by Fab. 



