1873.] 21 [Packard. 



antennae minutely ringed with white and brown. Thorax and fore 

 wings pale glaucous green. Fore wings with a brown squarish spot 

 at base of submedian space; wing clear green beyond, just 

 within the middle crossed by a broad compound band directed 

 obliquely outwards towards the middle of the inner edge; the band is 

 made up of two filiform slightly sinuated blackish and red lines, en- 

 closing on each side of the median wavy smoky gray band a broad 

 green band. Beyond is a broad clear space. A much sinuate submar- 

 ginal smoky band starts from the inner angle, and after a long outward 

 curve ends on the costa (just below which it is dislocated), at a dis- 

 tance from the apex equal to the thickness of the thorax; some black 

 and reddish scales are strewn along the edge of the band. From a 

 squarish thickened portion, as if broken off from the band, reaches out 

 towards the apical black streak, a similar short black stripe ; a mar- 

 ginal narrow thread-like black line. Fringe whitish, dark at the ends 

 of bands. Hind wings whitish, with two parallel curved, slightly 

 scalloped dusky lines, situated nearer the outer edge than usual. 

 Both wings beneath pale whitish, concolorous with the upper side of 

 the hind wings, with very faint indications of two outer parallel 

 dusky lines common to both wings. Legs brown, ringed with white. 



Length of body .60, fore wing .70 inch. California (Edwards). 



This fine species may at once be known by the pale sea green 

 thorax and fore wings, the latter with the obliquely broad band di- 

 rected outwards, and by the unusually pale hind wings and under 

 surface of both wings, as well as by the very long palpi. 



Hypsipetes viridata n. sp. 1 ? . 



In a perfect state of preservation. Closely allied structurally and 

 as regards size to H. 5-fasciata, the palpi being long, and extended as 

 far in front of the head as the latter is long; the outer edge, much as 

 in H. 5-fasciata, being less oblique than in some other species; the 

 third subcostal interspace is narrower than in H. 5-fasciata. Head, 

 thorax and fore wings deep sea green, mixed with dull clear dark 

 smoky ash, and some yellowish green and a few black scales. Palpi 

 with no green scales, but black and pale ash, being darker below than 

 above. Antennas finely ringed with white and blackish. Fore wings 

 of a sea green ground color, with numerous fine transverse strigas, 

 crossed by five clear smoky ashen sinuous bands finely edged with 

 black; the basal very short and narrow close to the base of the wing; 

 the second line is narrow, ends farther from the base of the wing on 

 inner than on costal edge, and is angulated outward conspicuously on 



