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Psyche 5:300, 1888.

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300 PSYCHE.
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the fourth on the apical fourth, both
these bands are curved outwardly.
Secondaries pale cinnamon brown.
Primaries beneath same color as the
secondaries above. Secondaries be-
neath ochreous. Expanse 48 mm. 4
f f . Hab. Delaware Water Gap.
Penn. June. Collected by Chas. Palm
to whom I gratefully dedicate this odd
species.
Allied to D. integerrim, from
which it can be distinguished by the
absence of the two discal spots, different position of the bands and also by the
different color.
Both the foregoing species were com-
pared with the types of allied species.
ORGYIA INORNATA, n. sp.
$ Body above and below fuscous,
pectinations of antennae blackish, stalk grayish. Primaries uniformly fuscous
with a curved, transverse band beyond
the middle, bending inwardly as it
reaches the inner margin. Secondaries
fuscous. Wings beneath somewhat
paler than above.
Expanse 15 mm.
9 .
Wholly dirty whitish above and
below. Length 16 mm. Width 7 mm-
I f . 2 9 9. Collection W. Beu-
tenmuller. Hab. Enterprise, Fla. May.
Differ from all its congeners by the
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. -At
the meeting of the Entomological society of London held 7 August 1889. Dr. C. V. Riley was elected an honorary fellow in place of the late Dr. V. Signoret. The number of
honorary fellows is limited to ten, and less than forty of the most celebrated entomolo- gists in the world have been thus honored. Dr. H. A. Hagen was elected in 1863, Dr. J. absence of the aftte-apical white spot
near the inner angle, and by its plain
coloration.
LARVA. -Head and cervical shield
bright coral red. Body above mouse
color with three rows orange tubercles
along each side. Each tubercle pro-
vided with a bunch of long, silvery gray hairs. Along the subdorsal region of the second, third, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth segments is also a row of orange tubercles with silvery gray hair while
on the doi-sum of the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh segment is a thick bunch of
white hairs and from the eighth segment
to the end of the body there is a broad, black stripe, with three small orange
spots on each segment. On each side
of the anterior parts of the first segment is a long, black pencil and one on the
eleventh segment which is brown at the
base. A few brown hairs are also scat-
tered here and there over the body.
Underside yellowish green. Length
about 30 mm.
FOOD-PLANTS. Live oak (@ercus
virens) , and cypress ( Cupressus) .
COCOON.-Similar to that of 0. leu-
costigma light brown, oval, composed
of fine silk, interwoven with the hair of the larva. Length 25 mm. Width
-
L. Leconte in the same year and Dr. A. S. Packard in 1884.
Classified according to the land of their birth there are but two Americans, Drs.
Leconte and Packard.
Prof. C. H. Fernald was elected a fellow at the meeting held 4 September 1889.
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No. 160-164 were issued 2 Jan. 1890.




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