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BOMBYCINE MOTHS OF NORTH AMERICA— PACKARD. 



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Mountains. I have found them particularly abundant about Laramie Park in Wyoming in 

 the latter part of June and July. They appear to frequent flowers in company with diurnal 

 lepidoptera, as the various species of Argynnis, and they may then be easily taken. Their 

 flight is rapid. They are characteristic of the country of the sagebush and the ranges of the 

 western sheep herder. — W. J. Holland, The Moth Book, p. 93.] 



PSEUDOHAZIS EGLANTERTNA (Boisduval). 



Plate XXIV, figs. 5, 6; XXV, figs. 1, 2; LXII, figs. 1, 2; LXVIII, figs. 3, 4. 



[Saturnia eglanterina Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (2) X (1852), p. 323.] 

 Telea eglanterix Herrich-Schaeffer, Sammlung Aussereur. Schmett. (1855), p. 60. 



[ 6" . Antennae, deep-brown ; head and thorax clothed with rough yellow hair, at times heavily 



intermingled with black; patagia often distinctly pinkish; abdomen dorsally yellow, ringed 



with black, anal tuft yellow, ventrally pale 



ochreous, usually shaded with pink and heavily 



ringed with black; pectus and legs bright yel- 

 low. Primaries variable in ground color, at 



times uniformly pale ochreous, usually largely 



suffused with pink; costal and outer margin 



narrowly black; a broad irregular antemedian 



black band, straight below costa to subcostal 



vein, then strongly bent outward to inception 



of vein 2 and again curving inward to inner 



margin two-fifths from base of wing ; this band 



is connected with the base of the wing by a still 



broader black band in the submedian fold; a 



broad postmedi- 

 an black band 

 bent outward be- 

 low costa, then 

 parallel to outer 

 margin ; the 

 terminal area of 

 wing is crossed 



by black rays extending along the veins from outer margin to 

 postmedian line and bending to coalesce opposite the cell ; apex 

 of wing rather broadly black ; in the median area at end of cell a 

 large irregularly circular patch with a central white semitrans- 

 parent lunate [spot], at times obsolete; beyond this patch in the 

 interspace between veins 4 and 5 the ground color is usually a 

 bright yellow; veins in the median area, especially anal vein 

 slightly marked with black scaling. Secondaries bright yellow, 

 with postmedian band of primaries repeated, and rather sharply 

 angled opposite the cell; the base of wing is usually broadly 

 blackish, but at times the black suffusion is wanting and an 

 antemedial black band alone is present, the black rays of the 

 terminal area do not attain the postmedian band, but form 

 triangular patches along the outer margin, more or less coalescent 



at their bases; black discocellular patch as on primaries with faint central white dash, more or 



less obsolescent. 



Beneath, primaries bright yellow, paler along costa and at apex; markings as above but 



more sharply defined, less diffuse; terminal black dashes not attaining postmedian band. 



Fig. 10. — Pscudohazis eglanterina from California; larva, stage I. 



Fig. 11. — Pscudohazis eglanterina from Call 

 fomia; larval segments; May 19. 



