256 LEPIDOPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA. 



on the hind border, and a brown dot in the disk. Length of the 



body 2J — 3 J lines ; of the wings 8 — 10 lines. 



United States. 



Walker. 



3. C. rubicundaria Hubner. 



Fulvous; wings sometimes with a discal fuscous spot; seconda- 

 ries rufous, margined with black. 



Var. a. Primaries tawny, with a slight brown dot in the disk. 

 Secondaries red with a black discal spot and a broad black hind 

 border. 



Var. b. Secondaries partly red on the hind border. 



Var. c. All the wings without discal spots. 



Massachusetts. 



Walker. 



GNOPHRIA Steph. Setina Schr. Atolmis Hubner. 



Palpi moderate, recurved, subsquamous ; maxillae as long as the 

 antennae ; antennae simple ; of the male, setaceous. Primaries 

 narrow, of nearly equal breadth ; secondaries opaque. Feet short, 

 rather robust ; tibiae short, robust, hind tibiae with four spurs. 



1. G. vittata Harris. Lithosia miniata Kirby. 



Deep scarlet; primaries with two broad stripes and a short 

 stripe between them at the tip, of a lead color ; secondaries with 

 a very broad lead-colored border behind ; the middle of the abdo- 

 men and joints of the legs of the same color. 



Larva feeds on lichens, and may be found under loose stones in 

 the fields in the spring. It is dusky and thinly covered with stiff, 

 sharp, and barbed black bristles, which grow singly from small 

 warts. Early in May it makes its cocoon, which is very thin and 

 silky, and twenty days afterwards is transformed to a moth. 



Harris. 



DASYCHIRA Steph. Orgyia Ochs. 



Body generally stout. Palpi porrect, pilose, extending very 



little beyond the head ; first joint short ; third slender. Abdomen 



not or hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Legs stout ; fore 



legs with very long hairs ; hind tibiae with four moderately long 



