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MEMOIRS or THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
Tbe following synopsis and descriptions of the moths of this genus have been kindly prepared 
for me by Mr. Dyar: 
SYXOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF OATAXA. 
Outer margin of primaries distinctly excavated between the veins. 
Color entirely smoky or blackish browm 
Color yellowish brown or paler, 
Discal spots faint or absent; size medium. 
Color yellow-brown 
Color testaceous 
Discal spots distinct; size large 
Outer margin indistinctly excavate, nearly entire in the ^ . 
Color taw'iiy brow’n or purplish. 
Tawny hrnwii. di.scal spots distinct; size large 
More or less purplish, discal spots indistinct, of medium size. 
Thoracic patch reddish brown. 
Fore wings dark brown wTtb a purplish Hush 
Fore w’ings dull whitish lilac, more or less covered with cinnamon-brown scales 
Thoracic patch ocherons 
Color yellowish buff. 
Thoracic patch tawny brown * 
Thoracic patch as pale as the thorax 
■Outer margin of primaries entire. 
Primaries dark reddish brown; lines and fringe concolorons 
Primaries Inteous tawny, the lines and fringe not concolorous 
aiif/usii 
. . viiniatra 
caViforiiica 
... (Irexelii 
major 
. florulana 
.... 2}almii 
... viodesta 
. j)€rHp\cua 
... rohusfa 
inlegerrima 
. contracia 
SYNOPSIS OF THE LARVAE. 
:Secondary hairs shorter than primary ones; larvje moderately hairy. 
Primary hairs (from the warts) and secondary (from the skin) concolorous, pale 
Stripes very ii arrowy pnlo yellow 
Stripes moderately broad, greenish yellow 
Stripes leiuou-yellow', confluent posteriorly 
Primary hairs pale, secondary discolorous, dark. 
Secondary hairs black; head red. 
Stripes broken into quadrate spots 
Stripes continuous. 
Head dark red 
Head paler red 
Secondary hairs brown; head black or red 
.‘Secondary hairs long, concolorous with i>rimary ones, i>ale; larvie very hairy. 
Lines narrow or obsolete 
Lines broad, creamy white 4 
, Datana ministra AValker. 
(PI. II; fig. 3, fig. 4, 90 
Tlialwna ministra Drury, Illnstr. Exot, Eut., ii, p. 25, pi. 14, fig. 3, 1773. 
Abbot aud Smith, N. H. Lep. Ins. Georgia, p. 161, Tab. Ixxxi, 1797. 
JPyga^rat miniBlrd Harr., Cat. Ins. Mass., p. 73, 1835; Rept. Ins. Mass., p. 312, 1841; ibid., third edit., PI. A^I, 
figs. 6, 212, 1862. 
I^etaaia ministra Westw. Edit. Drury, Illustr., 11, p. 27, pi. 14, 1837. 
Datana ministra Walk., Cat. Lep. Br. Mus., v, p. 1061, 1855. 
Eiunetopona ministra Fitch, 2d Rept. Nox. Ins. N. York, p. 235, pi. 4, fig. 3, 1856; 3d Rept., i>. 19, 1857: 
Datana ministra Morris, Synopsis, Lep, N. Aiuer., p. 247, 1862. 
Grote, New Check List N. Amer, Moths, p. 18, 1882. 
Smith, List Lep. Bor. Amer., p. 30, 1891. 
Kirby, Syn. Cat. hep. Het., i, p. 613, 1892. 
Neum. aud Dyar, Trans. Amer. Ent. S c., xxi, p. 197, 1894. 
Larva. 
(PI. X, figs. 1, Ifl, 1&, Ic, Id, le.) 
Ahhot and Smith, Lep. Ins, Georgia, p. 161, PI. LXXXI, 1797. 
Marris, Ins. Inj. Veg., 1st edit., p. 312, 1841; Ins. Inj. Veg., 2d edit., p. 332, 1852, 
Fitch, 2d Rept. Nox. Ins. N. York, p. 237, 1856; 3d Kept. Ins. N. York, p. 337, 1857. 
anfftisii 
( ministra 
I caJifornica f 
drcxelii 
major 
.. jloridana 
jmhnii 
. perspicua 
intcgerrima 
. contracia 
