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Fore wings with a very narrow subcostal cell exterior to the disk, giving rise at its 

 end to the second marginal and post-apical nervules. 



H. militaris, Harris. White. Head, patagia and femora buff yellow. 

 Thorax and abdomen with a dorsal brown stripe. Fore wings very variable 

 in their markings, usually with a brown stripe along the costa from the base 

 not extended to the tip, and one along the inner margin with an oblique band 

 extended from it near the inner angle to the tip of the wing ; hind margin 

 from the tip to beyond the middle with a brown stripe. Hind wings without 

 spots. 



Variety. H. Lecontei, Boisd. The fore wings are brown, spotted with 

 white, and the hind wings sometimes with a brown dot. 



H. interrupto-marginata, De Beauv., vid. Proceedings, May, 1860, 

 p. 161. H. Comma, Walker, p. 652. 



* H. confinis, Walker. White. Head, prothorax, fore coxae and ab- 

 domen at the base luteous. Palpi with black tips. Antennae black. Thorax 

 and abdomen with a brown stripe. Fore wings brown, with a discal, slightly 

 angular white stripe, and an elongate-triangular oblique subapical white 

 band. 



* H. co n t i g ua. White. Head, prothorax and fore coxae luteous. Palpi 

 black, luteous at the base. Antennae black. Thorax and abdomen with a 

 brown stripe. Fore wings brown, with a white discal stripe, which widens 

 from the base to a little beyond the middle, and with two large subapical 

 white spots. Hind wings with a small brown spot near the hind border. 



* H. Clymene, Esper. Luteous. Antennae black. Palpi with black 

 tips. Prothorax with two brown dots. Thorax with a white disk and a single 

 brown stripe. Abdomen most frequently with dorsal brown spots. Fore 

 wings brown, with a white angulated stripe at the base, three white spots 

 before and a divided subapical one behind. Hind wings frequently with two 

 posterior brown spots. 



H. fulvi costa. White. Palpi yellow orange, tips blackish. Head, 

 prothorax, the anterior edge of the fore wings, especially beneath, yellow 

 orange ; sometimes the costa of the fore wings is dark brownish. Breast and 

 legs yellow orange, the middle and fore tibiae and tarsi blackish. Abdomen 

 tipped with yellowish orange. 



Illinois. From Mr. Robt. Kennicott. 



Phragmatobia, Stephens. 



The neuration of the fore and hind wings, (P. fuliginosa), like that, in 

 Spilosoma. Wings somewhat diaphanous. 



Head rather small, hairy, sunken ; with ocelli. Face rather broad. Eyes 

 small. Antennae ciliated, in the $ serrated, in the > simple. Labial palpi 

 short, slightly exceeding the clypeus, very hairy; the basal and middle joints 

 about equal and the latter thickened ; terminal joint short, ovate and obtuse. 

 Tongue not more than one-half as long as anterior coxae. 



Body thick. Thorax with long hair. Patagia moderate, erected and over- 

 lapping the mesothorax. Breast hairy ; abdomen smooth. Legs with hairy 

 femora ; tibial spur of the anterior concealed ; the posterior tibiae with four 

 spurs. 



*P. vagans, Boisd. Dark gray or grayish luteous. Fore wings im- 

 maculate. Hind wings black ; ciliae grayish luteous. Beneath the wings are 

 cinereous with a black lunule. 



North California. 



* P. assimilans, Walker. Male. Red. Antennae testaceous. Thorax 



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