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fluent on the disk beyond the middle, and with four oblique bands of whitish 

 tawny-bordered spots ; veins tawny. Hind wings whitish, with a slight testa- 

 ceous tinge. 



H. Caryse? 



H. tessellaris, Ab. & Sm. Pale ochreous yellow. Antennae and 

 labial palpi pale orange yellow, the terminal joint of the latter blackish. 

 Tegulffi edged internally with bluish green and with a blackish dot on the mid- 

 dle of each in front. Abdomen pale orange yellow above. Fore wings with 

 dusky bands edged on each side with a delicate, crenated blackish line, one 

 at the base furcate above subcostal vein, one across the middle of the disk, 

 one ondiscal vein extended to the median vein, one across the nervules, some- 

 times interrupted in the middle, and one along the hinder margin. Hind 

 wings paler than the fore wings. 



*H. fulvo-flava, Walker, 733. Testaceous, paler beneath. Thorax 

 with two tawny stripes, which converge behind, and two tawny spots in front 

 between the stripes. Femora and tibia? hairy : fore femora and tibiae tawny 

 above. Fore wings yellow, with a tawny spot at the base, with two oblique, 

 tawny bands, with darker borders ; these bands are partly connected, and the 

 inner one is especially irregular and ramose, being forked in front and dilated 

 in the disk toward the base, and emitting a branch to each border. Hind 

 wings whitish, with a slight testaceous tinge. 



H. maculata? 



Nova Scotia, United States. 



*H. maculata, Harris, 279. Pale ochre yellow. Fore wings with large, 

 irregular, pale brown spots, arranged almost in transverse bauds. 

 Mass. 



H. bicolor, Walker. Male. Reddish tawny. Head white. Antennae 

 whitish above. Thorax with three white stripes. Breast white. Fore 

 femora and tibiae thickly clothed with white hairs. Fore wings testaceous, 

 with indistinct hyaline spots. Hind wings white. 



Mr. Walker says the specimen from which this description was drawn, is 

 injured, and that it may be a variety of H. an ulifascia. 



Mexico. 



*H. insulata, Walker. Female. Pale testaceous, paler beneath. Head 

 with a pale luteous band behind the antennae. Palpi blackish above toward 

 the tips. Antennae black, pale luteous at the base. Abdomen above luteous. 

 Legs blackish ; coxae luteous. Hind wings a little paler than the fore wings. 

 Abdomen with rows of black dots ; femora blackish above, whitish testaceous 

 beneath. 



Male. Abdomen unspotted. Femora luteous, with black tips ; fore femora 

 blackish above, except toward the base. 



Jamaica. 



Variety. Cream color. Palpi black above and towards the tips. Antennae 

 black, cream color at the base. Abdomen luteous atove, with three rows of 

 black dots. Fore legs blackish above ; middle tibiae and tips of the posterior 

 femora and of the hind tibiae gray. 



St. Domingo, S. America. 



* H. palpalis, Walker. Male. Deep brown. Vertex and front whitish, 

 with two brown spots. Palpi with a testaceous band near the tips. Antennae 

 black. Thorax with six white luteous-bordered spots, two in front, and two 

 on each side by the wings, the hind pair elongated. Breast, abdomen and 

 legs luteous. Fore tibiae and tarsi brown, the former and the fore metatarsus 

 each with a broad white band ; posterior tibiae and tarsi with brown bands. 

 Fore wings with four clusters of white and testaceous spots, one at the base, 



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