. Catalogue of the described Lepidoptera of North America. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Lepidoptera -- North America. CECEROCAMPA. 173 § Hind border of anterior wings nearly straight. 4. C. procne Clemens. Head and thorax dull brown (if not faded), with a broad whitish stripe on the sides, extended to the lower edge of tegulce. Abdo- men brownish testaceous, with faint dark brown dorsal marks in atoms. Anterior wings rather pale brownish, punctated with dark atoms and with obscure dark brown lines extending from the base to the tip; discal spot dark brown and small. Posterior wing
. Catalogue of the described Lepidoptera of North America. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Lepidoptera -- North America. CECEROCAMPA. 173 § Hind border of anterior wings nearly straight. 4. C. procne Clemens. Head and thorax dull brown (if not faded), with a broad whitish stripe on the sides, extended to the lower edge of tegulce. Abdo- men brownish testaceous, with faint dark brown dorsal marks in atoms. Anterior wings rather pale brownish, punctated with dark atoms and with obscure dark brown lines extending from the base to the tip; discal spot dark brown and small. Posterior wings uniform blackish-brown. Under surface of the wings brownish, somewhat tinged with rufous, and with two rows of brown spots in the middle of the posterior. California. CLEMENS. §§ Fore wings very acute and somewhat hooked. 5. C. drancus Cramer, II, 56, pi. 132. Xylophones drancus Hiibner. Blackish-brown; sides of head and thorax with a white line, and a white dorsal line extending from the head to tip of the abdomen ; tegulas edged above with reddish-brown, beneath with white. The base of abdomen with two reddish-brown bands. Anterior wings blackish-brown, discal spot black; several lines extending from the inner margin to the tip, three of which in the middle of the wing arise from a blackish patch on the inner margin placed on a fawn- colored ground and a single black, subterminal line placed between two dark brown lines. Posterior wings uniform dark brown. ( Cramer's figure.} West Indies. CLEMENS. §§ Anterior wings acute and somewhat hooked. The following species resembles in some respects Mr. Walker's crotonis, but I think it is not the same. 6. C. nitidula Clemens. Head and thorax with a rufo-whitish line on each side. Head and anterior portion of tegula? dark brown, tinged with greenish, with the disk brown. Abdomen brown, paler on the sides, with a double row of dorsal dark brown dots and a black patch on the sides at the base. Anterior wings dull greenish-brown, w
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