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then bent outwards, slightly incurved at discal fold, oblique below vein 4 and 
incurved at submedian fold; subterminal line whitish, defined on inner side 
by a triangular brown patch from costa to vein 6, angled inwards above vein 
5, then outwards to termen at vein 4 and defined by an oblique blackish mark 
on inner side, then indistinct, oblique, waved, with a sinuous whitish line 
before it; the termen red-brown with white line before it slightly defined by 
black on inner side, incurved from vein 7 to 4 where it angles outwards, then 
waved; cilia red-brown with yellowish line at base. Hind wing ochreous whit- 
ish tinged with red-brown especially on terminal area; a slight brown dis- 
coidal bar; cilia whitish; the underside whitish, the costal area tinged with 
ochreous and slightly irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal bar, postmedian 
line bent outwards below costa, then crenulate, traces of a diffused subterminal 
- line, three small black spots on termen below apex defined by whitish on inner 
side. 
2. Ground-color much darker red-brown. 
The synonymy is as follows: 
Eriopus floridensis Guenée, Noct., vol. 2, p. 292 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. 
N. Amer., p. 309. 
Hriopus elegantulus Herrich-Schaeffer, Corresp.-Blatt. zool. min. Ver. 
Regens, 1868, p. 117. 
Callopistria floridensis Guenée (dauct.). 
THE LARVA. 
The larva (see fig. 1) is slender, with forelegs and prolegs normal 
and well developed. The head is small, wider than long, greenish 
in life, or pale yellow in inflated specimens, with the V-mark strongly 
marked. While this species is very variable in general color, there 
qs one characteristic mark which extends transversely across the 
anterior border of the thorax in a blackish line and abruptly back- 
ward under the spiracles to the second thoracic segment, and some- 
times nearly to the anal segment. The thoracic plate is about twice 
as wide as long, and not very strongly marked. 
‘The general color varies from yellow to bright green to dark, 
nearly black. In the palest form the thoracic border may extend 
nearly to the third joint of the thorax and then cease, or reappear in 
short, longitudinal dashes just below each spiracle. In the forms 
which are a little darker these lines are more pronounced, and simi- 
lar transverse dashes mark the dorsal surface of the last three ab- 
dominal segments. In the more strongly marked form, shown in 
the figure at the left, these transverse bands are of a maroon color 
and very conspicuous. In most forms, and especially in the dark 
ones, one of which is shown at the right in the figure, there is a 
conspicuous longitudinal white line just above the stigmata or spira- 
cles. This is almost lacking in the entirely grown forms. These 
two extreme color variants are so different that if observed sepa- 
rately they would not naturally be associated with the same insect, 
the last form presenting a decidedly velvety appearance. 
The length is 12 inch (33 mm.) and the width 0.2 inch (4 mm.). 
