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Synopsis of tin- Species. 



Of large size, two whitish-yellow hands nearly meeting in the middle of the fore wing H. infulata. 



Like infulata, but with only two metallic lines, and with the yellowish hands united H. elaborata. 



Smaller than the other two, with two-thirds of the hind wings white, two marginal blue 



metallic lines H. cycladata. 



Heliomata infulata Grote. Plate 9, fig. 26. 



Baptria infulata Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., ii, 67, pi. 3, fig. 4, $ , 1863. 

 Erateina infulata Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., iii, 542, 1864. 

 Heliomata infulata Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., vi, 30, 1866. 



1 $ and 1 9. — Black-brown; fore wings blackish-brown, with two 

 broad yellowish-white bands, one extending from the outer third of the costa 

 to the middle of the wing, ending in the second median venule; the other 

 extending from the middle of the inner edge of the wing to the base of the 

 first and second median venules. Just beyond is a submarginal, metallic, 

 blue, broad line much farther from the outer edge of the wing than in 

 H. cycladata. A similar marginal blue line. The band on the hind wings is 

 continuous with the hinder band of the fore wings, but wider, though only 

 half as wide as in H. cycladata. Beneath much as above, with the costa 

 more or less pale ; fringe dark. , 



Length of body, — !; of fore wing, cf, 0.50; 9, 0.45; expanse of wings, 

 0.90-1.00 inch. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. (Graef); Northern Virginia (Grote): 



Heliomata elaborata Grote. 



Baptria elaborata Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., ii, 67, pi. 3, fig. 5, $ , 1863. 

 Erateina elaborata Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., iii, 542, 1864. 

 Heliomata elaborata Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., vi, 30, 1866. 



"Anterior wings blackish at the base, and terminal space with a broad 

 yellow band traversing the median space of the wing, interrupted at the 

 center and contracting as it reaches the internal margin. Posterior wings 

 with the basal half yellow, showing a few powdered black atoms at 

 extreme base and with the terminal margin entirely black. There is a faint 

 terminal metallic line, and a black line runs through the yellow median bands. 

 Under side resembling the upper, with the legs and under surface of body 

 powdered with yellow atoms. 



A male expands f inch. Collection of Entomological Society of Phila- 

 delphia. Hab. — Virginia. 



Resembles B. infulata, but is, 1 think, distinct. There is but a single 

 metallic line, and the disposition of the yellow median bands is different." 



