SCHIZURA. By Dr. M. Dbaudt. 
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for a Notodontid larva, remaining gregariously together until the pupation. It is red-brown with very many 
black longitudinal lines which, from the 5th to 10th segments, are situate subdorsally in a broad white stripe. 
Head and 4th segment with an incrassation and the short protuberance are coralline; the tubercles bear stiff 
black bristles. It lives on numerous foliage-trees and many low plants and has two breeds a year. From Maine 
and Canada to Missouri and to the south as far as Texas, Georgia and Florida, finally in Mexico. 
S. tomaea Dyar (149 e) is similar, somewhat larger, of brighter colours, broadly whitish-grey in the tomciea. 
costal area, yellowish in the centre, red-brown at the inner margin, the transverse lines better visible, a short 
longitudinal streak behind the black discal dot, and a fine basal ray; thicker black oblique streaks above the 
anal angle, and a white one behind them. Hindwing whitish with a broad smoky margin and a darker anal 
spot. Mexico (Zacualpan). 
S. pegasis Schs. Forewing brownish, reddish-yellow at the costal margin, broadly dusted with pegasis. 
violettish-brown at the inner margin, the yellowish-reddish basal area defined by a black transverse line, a 
brown longitudinal stripe behind the short brown discal streak; the dentate transverse lines are indistinct; 
a submarginal row of small dark spots, fringe speckled brown and yellowish. Hindwing brown with yellowish 
fringe. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Brazil (Petropolis). 
S. dospeppa Dyar has reddish-grey forewings shaded blackish basally, with a lighter transverse line dospeppa. 
bordered with black, which is only distinct in the inner-marginal half; the white undulate line edged with black 
is distinct and forms a white spot above the inner angle, crossed by 2 black streaks. Hindwing yellowish-white 
with a dark anal spot traversed by white. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. Mexico (Guerrero). 
S. nocens Dogn. is somewhat similar, greyish-brown, darker at the base, with darker brown longitudinal nocens. 
stripes in all the cellular spaces except the apical region, with a red-brown spot in the lower half of the cross- 
vein, and a curved lighter transverse stripe behind it; the whitish fringe is speckled brown on the ends of the 
veins; hindwing whitish, brownish in the marginal half, with a brown anal spot. Expanse of wings: 39 mm. 
San Salvador. 
S. manca Schs. is a smaller brown species, shaded with grey in the costal half as far as behind the cell, manca. 
with indistinct transverse lines, the anterior one double, and with a fine velvety brown cross-vein streak and a 
brown postmedian shadow behind it, which becomes more distinct towards the inner margin; brown longitudinal 
stripes extend between the radial branches to the margin, dark internerval lines before the margin, a white 
spot above the anal angle: Hindwing whitish with a broadly smoked margin. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. 
Costa Rica. 
S. schausia Jones. Forewing lilac brown, dusted with dark grey, with double transverse lines filled schausia. 
lighter, almost with white at the costal and inner margins, and a dark median shadow; the distal half of the 
costal margin is black, striped and spotted white; the anal half of the distal margin is black, bordered with 
white inside, fringe speckled black and white, in the upper half with the fringe brown. Hindwing white, red- 
brown at the margin, with a black and white anal spot. Expanse of wings: A 40, $ 42 mm. Brazil (Parana). 
S. Salvador Schs. Head and thorax white mixed with brownish fawn; abdomen brownish cinnamon, Salvador. 
whitish beneath. Forewing brown, with black veins and a black basal streak below the cell, a round black spot 
below the cell between 2 and 3; brown postcellular internerval streaks, the white fringe speckled dark. Hind¬ 
wing white, veins and margin brown with bronze gloss, darker at the anal angle. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. 
San Salvador. 
S. tizoc Schs. (149 e). Forewing violettish-grey, darkened at the base, with velvety brown longitudinal tizoc. 
stripes in the marginal half, which are accompanied in the centre of the margin by white ones; base of sub- 
median vein also whitish. Hindwing white, spotted dark brown at the anal angle, fringe speckled brown. Peru. 
S. badia Pack. (= significata Wkr.) (149 e). Forewing red-brown, strewn with ash-grey and darker brown, badia. 
dusted with grey before the black cell-end streak, behind it two black radial rays to the margin; the apex and 
stripes between the black veins are white. Hindwing white, smoky in the marginal half. — The larva is green 
with a purple brown longitudinal stripe on the dorsum of the first 4 segments, yellow irregular dorsal figures 
behind it, and a more or less complete brown belt around the 6th segment. It lives on Viburnum lentago and 
develops in August. Atlantic States. 
S. unicornis Abb. & Sin , (= edmandsi Pack., humilis Wkr.) (149e) has ash-grey forewings mixed with unicornis. 
whitish, red-brown and yellowish-green, the base of a purer whitish colour, bordered by a black line which is 
preceded inside by a brown parallel line; the antemedian area before the double dentate anterior transverse 
line is darker, the median area before the black discal streak is whitish, a series of red-brown spots behind the 
straight dentate black postmedian line; costal margin and apex whitish, with short black longitudinal streaks 
subapical and above the anal angle, spotted white behind the latter streaks. Hindwing dirty whitish with a 
broad faded white postmedian band and a blackish anal spot, in the ^ brownish-grey. — The larva is green 
on the thoracal segments, brownish-yellow behind them, with darker brown oblique streaks directed posteriorly 
