ARCTONOTUS LUCIDUS. Boisduval. 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 2 me Ser. X, p. 319 (1852). 
Walker, C. B. M., Vol. YIII, p. 265 (1856). Clemens, Jnl. Acad. Nat. Sc., Phil., p. 188 (1859). Morris, Syn. Lep. X. Am., 
p. 217 (1862). Grate & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc., Phil., Yol. Y, p. 169 (1865) ; List Lep. X. Am., p. 3 (1868). Grote, Bull. 
Buff'. Soc., Yol. I, p. 17 (1873), Yol. II, p. 225 (1875). 
(PLATE XI II, FIG. 7.) 
Expands If — 1| inches. 
Body olive green, tegulte edged with whitish, antenme stout and heavily serrated. 
Upper surface, primaries same colour as body, crossed by two irregular, not very conspicuous, flesh-col- 
oured bands, which connect at the inner margin; the middle of these bands is dull purplish; the space Be- 
tween these bands, and also the basal space, is darker than the marginal part of wing. 
Secondaries pinkish, a sub-marginal wine-red band, a purplish-black anal mark; fringes pale yellowish- 
grey. 
Under surface olivaceous, inclining a little to reddish on inner half of primaries ; devoid of ornamenta- 
tion. 
Hab. Oregon ; Mus. Behr., Hy. Edwards, Strecker. 
To my friend of many years, Henry Edwards, am I beyond measure indebted for two examples of this rarest of X. Am. Sphing- 
idfe. Of its larva, food-plant or habits I know nothing; but Mr. Edwards, in a paper he is about to publish in the Proceedings of the 
California Acad. Nat. Sc., will doubtless be able to give further particulars. 
This insect is much in the same position, or rather no position, as the curious Exotic Diurnal Calinaga Buddha ; no one seems 
to know rightly where to place it. Clemens and Walker have put it at the last end of the Sphingidae ; Grote & Robinson, in their List 
N. Am. Sph., put it at the other end, and commenced the Sphingidae with it. Grote, in his Cat. in Buff. Bull., Vol. I, still retained it 
there, but in his latest effort, in Vol. II of same work, he has changed its position and placed it between Macroglossa Erato, Bdl., 
[Euproserpinus Phceton, G. & R.,*) and Macroglossa Flavnfusciata ( Lepisesia F., Grote,) where it most certainly does not belong; its 
short tongue, the antennal and other characters denote its close alliance to Smerinthus, near which it should doubtless be placed. 
Walker says, “this genus appears to connect Smerinthus with the Bombycidce-’’ 
DARAPSA VERSICOLOR. Harris. 
( Charocampa,) Harris, Sill. Am. Jnl. Sc. & Art, XXXVI, p. 303 (1839) ; Ins. Inj. Veg., Flint’s Ed., p. 328 (1862). Walker, C. B. M. 
Vol. VIII, p. 131 (1856). 
Darapsa Versicolor, Clemens, Jnl. Acad. Nat. Sc., Phila., p. 148 (1859). Morris, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 19 (1860) ; Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 
169 (1862.) 
Otus Versicolor, Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., Yol. V, p. 154 (1865). 
Darapsa Versicolor, G. & R., List Lep. JS. Am., p. 4 (1868). Edwards, Can. Ent., Vol. II, p. 134 (1870). Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc., 
Vol. I, p. 22 (1873), Vol. II, p. 226 (1875). 
(PLATE XIII, FIG. 9 tf.) 
Expands 3 inches. 
Body beautiful bright green ; tegulse edged with white ; a white central dorsal line runs the whole length 
from the head to the end of abdomen ; tegulse and prothorax, and some of the last segments of abdomen, 
edged with white, also white lateral lines on the head. Beneath green and yellow ; edges of abdomen white. 
Upper surface, primaries with alternate white and green curved bauds of varying width ; broad green 
marginal band, a white apical line, the white space on disc tinged with purple, a green discal dash. Secondaries 
rust-red, white at costa and abdominal margin, exterior edged with an irregular, narrow, greyish and greenish 
margin. 
Under surface, primaries yellowish, basal half suffused with reddish; margin green; white apical line; 
some white marks at costa not very far from apex. Secondaries green and yellow; three white bands very 
broad at costa and abdominal margin, almost obsolete on disc of wing. 
Habitat. New England and Middle States, and probably others. 
*This “name cannot obtain,” as Grote & Robinson’s description of both the genus and species was based on a picture. “We 
erect this genus for a small California species of the present family, which, while allied to Proserpinus, differs by the small, reduced sec- 
ondaries, longer antennse and tufted abdomen. We are indebted to Mr. J. W. Weidemever for the information respecting this singular 
little species, which, we believe, has not been hitherto described, while an excellent figure, shown us by Mr. S. Calverley, enables us to 
present the present description, and to fix the species. It appears that Dr. Boisduval has etiquetted a specimen in his cabinet as 
Proserpinus Phoston.” All of which we think refreshingly cool. In after years they saw the real insect in Boisduval’s collection, the actual 
example “etiquetted” by that great savant, and then, with impudence unparalleled, from this they made another description in Trans. 
Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. II, p. 182, (1868,) where they say: “The present description should supersede that given by us as noted above, 
and which wa,s made from a colored drawing of the species, and is necessarily inaccurate in detail.” Language fails ! 
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