Monograph of the bombycine moths of North America, including their transformations and origin of the larval markings and armature . ugose. A lateral small, stout spine on eachside of the base. The vestiges of the $ sexual opening broad,?with a round tubercle on each side. Surface of the bodycorrugated with confluent i)nnctures on head and thorax; abdo-men coarsely punctured. Length, 22 mm. Food plants.—Sumac (Rhus (ilahra and R. typhina) (MissMorton, Mr. ])yar. Dr. C. V. Riley). Habits.—Larva occurring in July and September; motbsinJune, July, and September (Riley). Geo(iraphicaJ distribution.
Monograph of the bombycine moths of North America, including their transformations and origin of the larval markings and armature . ugose. A lateral small, stout spine on eachside of the base. The vestiges of the $ sexual opening broad,?with a round tubercle on each side. Surface of the bodycorrugated with confluent i)nnctures on head and thorax; abdo-men coarsely punctured. Length, 22 mm. Food plants.—Sumac (Rhus (ilahra and R. typhina) (MissMorton, Mr. ])yar. Dr. C. V. Riley). Habits.—Larva occurring in July and September; motbsinJune, July, and September (Riley). Geo(iraphicaJ distribution.—Chicago, 111. (Westcott); Colorado Springs, Colo., June 2.), at light (Gillette); West Farms,N. Y. (Angus); Newburg, N. Y. (Miss Morton); New Jersey and Pennsylvania (Palm); Chicago, 111. (Bolter); Manhattan, Kans. (Popenoe); Colorado (EdwardsColl. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y.); Illinois (Strecker); Mr. Dyar has received this species fromMiles City, central Montana; Missouri, District of Columbia, Kansas, Virginia, and New York(U. S. Nat. Mus.); New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Jlissouri, Carbondale, 111. (French).. Fig. 61.— of Dataiut pcrspicita. Datana robusta Strecker. (PI. II, fig. 16, . pt-rspicua and marked in exactly the same way. The outer marginof primaries seems less distinctly scalloped. Thoracic patch ocher-yellow, shading into tawnyposteriorly exactly as in D. perspicua, or entirely ocher-yellow, with only a few tawny scalesdefining its posterior border. In this latter case it is paler than the thorax. Thorax and primariesclay color (R., V, 8, a little paler), heavily dusted with hazel scales (R., IV, 12), these predominatingin the space between first and fifth lines below the median vein, all throughout giving a darkcast to the wing; lines, spots, and fringe, as in J), perspicna, o
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