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The only specimen which I have seen was taken by Prof. 

 Hentz ill North Carohiia, and now belongs to the Boston Soci- 

 ety of Natural History. 



10. S. Coriiferurum. Smith-Abbot. 

 Gray; fore-wings with about tliree narrow and indented 

 brownish bands, a spot near the middle, one or two streaks be- 

 yond the middle, and the nervures near the outer margin brown ; 

 hind-wings dusky or blackish gradually fading into gray towards 

 the base; fringes spotted with brown and white; abdomen gray 

 with brownish incisures. Expands one inch and three quarters 

 to two inches and three quarters. Larva, as figured by Abbot, 

 (Ins. Georg. p. 83, pi. 42,) chequered with brown and white spots, 

 with a dorsal whitish line, and a short caudal horn. It eats the 

 leaves of various kinds of pine, and enters the earth to transform. 

 Mr. Leonard informs me that the tongue-case of the Pupa is 

 short, and buried so as not to rise above the leg-cases. 



For my sj)ocimen I am indebted to the Rev. L. W. Leonard, 

 who raised it from a larva found on the pine in Burlington, Vt. 

 In the cabinet of the Boston Society of Natural History there is 

 a larger specimen, which was taken in North Carolina by Prof. 

 Hentz ; the bands on the wings in the latter are less distinct than 

 in my sjieciinen. 



11. aS. Ello. L. 

 Gray; fore-wings slightly indented on the outer margin, with 

 a few irregularly scattered black dots, and a blackish stripe ex- 

 tending from the base to the tip; hind-wings rust-red, with a 

 broad black hind-border; thorax with five longitudinal black 

 lines, and abdomen on each side banded with black. In the fe- 

 male the blackish stripe on the fore-wings and the lines on the 

 thorax are usually wanting or indistinct. Expands three and a 

 quarter to four inches. Inhabits the Southern States, the West 

 Indies, and South America. 



In the cabinet of the Boston Society of Natural History there 

 is a specimen of-this tropical insect, which was captured by Prof. 

 Hentz in the interior of North Carolina, where eventually the spe- 

 cies may become common. According to Madam Meriau (In- 

 sectes de Surinam, page and plate Gl) the larva, in Surinam, 

 lives on the leaves of a species of Psidmm or Guava, is of an ob- 

 scure brown color, with a black dorsal line, some small irregular 

 white spots on the sides, and the head and caudal horn purple. 

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