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Heliomata cvcladata Grote. Plate 9, fig. 25. 



BeUomata cycladata Grote, Proo. Ent. Sue. Phila., vi, 30, pi. :'., Bg. 7, 9, L866. 



2 i. — A smaller species than //. infulata, with narrower, more pointed 

 fore wings. Bodj and wings blackish brown; abdomen ringed with white, 

 with a broad white band at the base of the abdomen. Fore wings black- 

 brown, with the markings arranged much as in IT. infulaUi, but with the 



bands whiter, broader, and more irregular, and with a brown patch between 

 the points of the two opposing bands. The submarginal metallic blue line 

 is very much more sinuous near the costa than in infulata. The hind wings 

 are almost entirely snow-white, dark at base and on the outer edge, with two 

 blue lines. Fringe blackish-brown. Beneath much as above, with a longi- 

 tudinal subcostal blue sheath and a broad interrupted metallic blue line. 



Length of body, S, 0.35; of fore wings, <f , 0.43; expanse of wings, 

 0.85 inch. 



"West Farms, N. Y. (Angus)"; Brooklyn, N. Y. (Graef and Sepper); 

 "New York State (Ent. Soc. Phila.)". 



HETEROPHELPS Herrich-Schaeffec. Plate 1, fig. 18. Plate 2, fig. 18. 



IIeteropheI}>8 Herr.-Sch., Aussereur. Sebm., 62, 1850-58. 

 Guence, Phal., ii, 513, 1857. 

 Walk., List Lop. Het. Br. Mus., xsv, 1457, 1862. 



Head only moderately broad and full, the sides of the front parallel. 

 Palpi short and slender, not reaching to the front of the head; third joint 

 minute, conical. Male antennae with very large stout cilia, a pair to each 

 joint. Fore wings unusually large, costa full, sinuate, apex subacute ; outer 

 edge a little bent on the first median. Hind wings small, rather short, apex 

 suddenly but obtusely pointed; the outer edge full and rounded, extending to 

 the tip of the abdomen. Venation: two subcostal cells; the first subcostal 

 venule nearly twice as long as the second and third. Hind legs thick, short, 

 the tarsi much shorter than the long tibia?. Male abdomen moderately stout, 

 ending in a well-marked tuft. The ground-color is a whitish ochreous-gray, 

 with three black conspicuous costal spots, and a faint extradiscal line; no 

 discal spots. 



This well-marked genus differs from any other of the subfamily by the 

 heavily-ciliated antennas, \cvy short palpi, large slightly angular fore wings, 

 and small, rounded, obtusely-pointed hind wings. The markings are almost 

 identical in the two species. 



Nothing is known regarding the early stage of the genus. 



