Monograph of the bombycine moths of North America, including their transformations and origin of the larval markings and armature . ounded tubercles; body smooth with no spines; maxilla long,though slightly shorter than in Eacles. It should be observed that Burmeister represents thepupa of C. 2>ilneipal!H with a large, well-developed, forked cremaster. (PI. xx. fiy. onPI. XVII.) 130 MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Geixjriiphlcnl distrihutlon.—The genus is distinctively a South and Central American one, i. e.,neoo-anc, a single species having perhaps migrated from Brazil and the
Monograph of the bombycine moths of North America, including their transformations and origin of the larval markings and armature . ounded tubercles; body smooth with no spines; maxilla long,though slightly shorter than in Eacles. It should be observed that Burmeister represents thepupa of C. 2>ilneipal!H with a large, well-developed, forked cremaster. (PI. xx. fiy. onPI. XVII.) 130 MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Geixjriiphlcnl distrihutlon.—The genus is distinctively a South and Central American one, i. e.,neoo-anc, a single species having perhaps migrated from Brazil and the regions northward upinto the ^Mississippi Valley and along the Atlantic coast as far north as ^Massachusetts, thenbecoming modified, and assuming its peculiar characters. A second species, C. sepulciahs,appears to be peculiai to the Atlantic States, ranging from ]\Iaine to Georgia, but not yet knownto occur of the Alleghanies. Si//in/ii/iiucaJ hiiitory.—The names Ceracampa, Ceratocampa, and Dorycampa were bestowedon this gcMuis in ignorance of Hiibners work, which at tlic time those names were proposed was. Fig. 17.—Distribution of the geuus Citberonia. an obscure liook. Tiie lecent combination of Eacles and Citheronia l>y Kirb} was scarcely a stepin advance. CIXHEIiONIA RECtA-LIS (Fabricius). (PI. .XXXV, figs. 1, la.) Bmiihi/.i-ret/dix Fabhicuis, Ent. Sy.*t. Ill (1), p. 436, No. m, $. 1793. AttacHs hwciiim Cuamkk, Pap. cxot. II, tab. 117, B. (.—V. pp. 170-180, rar. Stoll, Siippl. Cram. tab. 42, fig. 2, S- Adhot and Smith, Lep. Ins. Georgia, II, tal). 61, 9- regal in Hurner, Verz. Stinnett., p. 153. Kirhy and Spence, Intr. Ent. II, p. 235; III, p. 179. 1828. me:moirs of tup: national academy of sciences. 131 Ceratocarnpa regalis Harris, Cat. Ins. Mass., p. 72. 1835; Appendix to Hitchcocks Rep. Geology, Ma<s., p. 592, 2d edit., 1835; Rep. inj. Ins. Mass., p. 287. 1841; Ibid., 3d edit., fig. 194.
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