288 Mr. W. Schaus's 



short. Primaries long, narrow, the inner angle rounded ; vein 5 

 from centre of discocellular ; areole long ; 6 from near end of areole ; 

 7 and 8 stalked ; 10 from before end of areole. Secondaries : veins 

 3 and 4 close together ; 6 and 7 stalked. 



Type. A. comfatsta, H. S. 

 Combusta, H. S., 1. a, p. 11, ff. 81, 82 (1854) = Fascis, Schs. 

 (Anodonta), Ent. Amer., vi, p. 47 (1890). 



Cerura. 

 Centra, Schrank., Fauna Boica, ii, 155 (1802). 



Antennae pectinated to tips. Palpi small. Primaries broad ; vein 

 6 from end of areole ; 7 and 8 stalked. Secondaries : veins 3 and 4 

 from a point ; 6 and 7 stalked. 



Type. C. fitrcitla, Schr., from Europe. 

 Scitiscripta, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M. xxxii, p. 408 



(1865). 

 Multiscripta, Riley, Trans. Acad. St. Louis, iii, p. 241 



(1875). 

 Occidentalism Lintmer, Rep. Mus. N. Y., xxx, p. 194 



(1878). 

 Rarata, Walk., 1. c, xxxii, p. 409 (1865) ; Biol. Centr. Amer. 



Lep. Het., ii, t. 91, f. 7 (1898). 

 Platea, Schs. (Dicranura), Ent. Amer., vi, p. 46 (1890). 

 Dandon, Druce (Harpyia), Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), 



xiii, p. 358 (1894); Biol. Cent. Amer. Lep. Het., ii, t. 



91, f. 9. 

 Annidifera, Berg. (Harpyia), Ann. Soc. Argent., v, p. 183 



(1878). 

 Argynnis, Schs., sp. no v. 

 Rivera, Schs., sp. nov. 

 Grandis, Schs., sp. nov. 



Centra argynnis, sp. nov. 



Head black, frontal tuft creamy -yellow. Collar white with a dorsal 

 transverse black shade. Thorax white ; three large black spots ante- 

 riorly, a central black spot, and a black line posteriorly. Abdomen 

 black dorsally, otherwise white ; anal tuft white, with a black trans- 

 verse line. Primaries silvery white ; sub-basal and basal interrupted 

 black lines, followed by a black ring on the inner margin, one in the 

 cell, contiguous to another on the costal margin, these black rings 

 filled in with greenish-yellow ; a median interrupted black line 



