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bands and patches, each containing several yellowish white spots; the first, at the base, leaving a 
small spot of the orange ground-colour at the base of the costa, extends across the wing, with two costal, 
two median, and two dorsal spots—the two median and the first dorsal coalescing; the second band, 
before the middle, slightly attenuate toward each margin, and eontaining four pairs of opposite spots 
in two nearly parallel lines; scarcely beyond the middle is a short quadrate costal patch, containing two 
pairs of opposite spots, the lower pair sometimes coalescing and the patch becoming triangular and 
nearly touching the upper extremity of a large head-shaped dorsal patch, beyond the middle, the nose 
pointing outward—this contains eight or nine spots, seven or eight following the outline, the remaining 
spot central (sometimes two of the outer spots coalesce); before the apex is another quadrate costal 
patch, larger than the one preceding it, and containing seven or eight spots, sometimes broken and 
irregular, while beyond and below this, on the lower half of the termen, is a smaller patch containing a 
few more or less coalescent spots; cilia tawny leaden grey. Hwp. al. 22-27 mm. Hindwinys semi- 
transparent, tawny leaden grey, subiridescent between the more darkly marked veins, the apex and 
dorsum rather more thickly scaled, and therefore darker than the remainder of the wing; cilia bronzy. 
Abdomen fuscous; underside white. Legs purplish fuscous, with white spots at the ends of the tibiae 
and on the tarsi. 
Type 2 (66064, Rio Sarstoon) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.); 3 (1845:123, Limas) BM. [PTT, 66065, 
66069) US. Nat. Mus. ] 
Hab. Central America—MeExico: veracruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith)—GuatEMALa : 
SACATEPEQUEZ: Capetillo, IV-V. 1879 (G. C. Champion)—British Honpuras: Limas, 
nr. Belize, 1844-5 (D. Dyson); Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneaux)—Nicaracua: Chontales 
(EZ. Janson). Ten specimens. 
The underside of the thorax is spotted with yellowish white on a black ground, and, 
like its closely allied congeners, its colouring renders it a good imitation of some of 
the Vespidae. It is nearly allied to floridana Nmgn. and aurea Fitch—indeed, it is 
intermediate between them ; from the former it differs in the greater restriction of the 
golden orange ground-colour, and from the latter in the narrower and more distinctly 
separated bands and blotches, which leave the orange ground-colour to occupy a larger 
area. The larva of floridana is known to be quite distinct from that of aurea [vide 
Dyar Jr. NY. Ent. Soc. 5 48 (1897)], and although the several species are extremely 
similar they can be separated consistently—perhaps more easily by sight than by 
description. 
4. Atteva aurea Fitch. 
=compta Clms.“ ; =tawrera Stretch; =*punctella (nec Stoll) Z. 
Deiopeia aurea Fitch Tr. NY. State Agr. Soc. 16 : 1856 486-7 sp. 214 (1856) *: Rp. Ins. NY. 3-5 
168-9 sp. 214 (1859) *. Poeciluptera compta Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat-Se. Phil. 12 547 (1860) °. 
Deiopeia aurea Morris Syn. Lp. N-Am. 251-2 sp. 2 (1862)*. Poeciloptera compta Morris Syn, 
Lp. N-Am. 312 sp. 1 (1862) °, Detopeia aurea Pkrd. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 3 106 (1864) °. 
Poeciloptera compta Grt. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 4 319 (1865) ". Oceta compta Grt. Pr. Ent. Soc. 
Phil. 5 230-1 (1865) *. Cydosia aurea Grt-Rbnsn. List. Lp. N-Am. 1 p. vii (1868) °. Oeceta 
compta Grt-Rbnsn. List Lp. N-Am. 1 p. vii (1868) *°; Riley Rp. Ins. Mo. 1 151-8 Pf. 2° 22-8 
(1869): Z. Stett. Ent. Ztg. 32 178 (1871) ’; Riley Tr. Ac. Sc. St-Louis 3 Jr. p. liti-iv 
(1873). O0cta aurea Stretch Ill. Zyg-Bomb. N-Am. 159-60, 240-2 (taurera) Pf.'7° 10 
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