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with a black line along each side of the body, and a transverse 

 line of the same color between each of the segments, and it is 

 covered with long pale yellow hairs. Others are of a brownish- 

 yellow or foxy red. Head and ends of the feet ochre-yellow ; 

 body below blackish. 



Var. a. Wings wholly white. 



Var. h. Primaries with one black dot. 



Var. c. Primaries with one black dot ; secondaries with two 

 black dots. 



Var. d. Primaries with two black dots ; secondaries the same. 



Var. e. Primaries with three black dots ; secondaries the same. 



North America. 



Walker. 



4. S. cunea Drury. Punctatissima Sm. Abb. Figured in Drury, I, pi. 



18 ; Sm. Abb. pi. 70. 



Antennas black, pectinate ; head white ; back and abdomen ash- 

 color. Primaries white ; spots numerous, of many forms, and 

 sooty black ; external margin with five spots ; those nearest the 

 tips triangular. Secondaries with a dark spot near the external 

 edge, and faintly marked near the external angle. Length of the 



body 5 — 6 lines ; of the wings 13 — 13 lines. 



Walker. 



5. S. congrua Walk. C. B. M. 669. 



White. Tarsi with black bands. Fore coxae and fore femora 



luteous, with black spots on the inner side; fore tibiae striped with 



black on the inner side. Male. Head and fore part of the thorax 



with a slight testaceous tinge. Primaries with four oblique very 



imperfect and irregular bands, composed of pale brown dots. 



Length of the body 6 — 1 lines ; of the wings 16 — 20 lines. 



Georgia. 



Walker. 



6. S. egle Drury. Figured in Drury, II, pi. 20. 



Wings rather long, thin, delicate, of a bluish-gray color, paler 

 on the front edge and without spots ; head, thorax, under side of 

 the body and legs, gray ; neck cream-color ; top of abdomen 

 bright yellow, with a row of black spots and two rows on each 

 side. Expands from one inch and three-quarters to nearly two 

 inches. 



