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4. S. Kalmice. Smith-Abbot. 



Rusty-biifl'; fore-wings streaked with light brown, and with a 

 narrow whitish band near the outer nnargin ; hind-wings with a 

 narrow central and a broad marginal blackish band ; fringes 

 brown spotted with white; shoulder-covers white edged with 

 brown; abdomen with a slender dorsal black line and short 

 transverse bands alternately black and white at the sides ; be- 

 neath dull reddish white. Expands three and a half to four and 

 a quarter inches. Larva, according to Abbot, (Ins. Georg. p. 73, 

 pi. 37) pale green, with seven oblique yellow bauds, edged above 

 with violet, on each side, the caudal horn and a line on each side 

 of the head blue, and the hinder pair of legs yellow. Feeds on 

 the leaves of Kahnia latifolia, and transforms in the earth. Pu- 

 pa with a short detached tongue-case. 



5. (S. Gordius. Cramer. 



Brownish ash-gray ; fore-wings streaked with black between 

 the nervures, with the anterior and inner margin dusky-brown, a 

 white dot near the middle, and a large gray spot at base ; fringe 

 spotted with white ; hind-wings with a narrow central and a 

 broad marginal dusky brown band, and a white fringe ; thorax 

 deep chestnut, with the sides and the head above whitish ; ab- 

 domen with a central black lino, and the sides ash-white trans- 

 versely banded with black. Expands three to three inches and 

 a half. Larva apple-green, with seven oblique white lateral 

 bands, slightly edged above Avith violet, a rust-red caudal horn, 

 and a brownish line on each side of the head. It lives on the 

 apple-tree, and enters the earth to be transformed. Pupa with a 

 very short detached tongue-case. 



6. S. dnerea. 11. 



Ash-gray ; fore-wings long, narrow, and entire, with five short 

 oblique lines between the nervures ; hind-wings with two black- 

 ish bands ; slioulder-covers slightly edged with black above ; ab- 

 domen with a narrow dorsal black line, and short alternate bands 

 of black and dirty white on the sides. Expands four and a half 

 to five inches and a quarter. 



The specimens from which this description is taken were 

 raised many years ago from larva;, which, at the lime, I neglect- 

 ed to figure and describe. To the best of my recollection, these 

 larva} were found on the lilac, and, with the pup;u, corresponded 

 very nearly in form, color, and size, to those of the European aS. 



