OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XII, Kilo 165 



This has the same striped wings as the preceding, but has 

 no yellow on the abdomen. I have another male from Mot- 

 zorongo with yellow on the abdomen and with black front 

 legs, but it is the specimen referred to above as "occasional 

 Mexican specimens" of plumosa. Possibly the yellow of the 

 abdomen should be considered as the variable character and 

 the forms separated on the color of the fore legs, in which 

 case we would have ovina (typical) in the Guianas, giving 

 off the race plumosa in Brazil and the race cretata from 

 Venezuela to North America. The form hadaca would then 

 rank as a species. Possibly also the yellow-marked specimen 

 is another species, but I hesitate to so refer it with but one 

 specimen before me, 



Norape virgo Butler. 



Carama virgo Butler, Cist . Ent. , ii, 203, 1877. 



Carama virgo Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., 436, 1892. 



Carama virgo Dyar, Brookl. Inst. Mus., Sci. Bull, i, 8, 8, 1906. 



This species has the same striped effect of the fore wings, 

 but the tarsi of all the feet are black. The vertex of the head 

 and the abdomen are tinged with yellow. The species ranges 

 from southwestern Texas through Mexico to Costa Rica. 

 The southern specimens are the largest, which indicates that 

 the species is most at home in Central America. I should 

 therefore expect its range to extend into South America. 

 Such is apparently the case, as Butler gives one of his local- 

 ities as "New Granada" (-= Colombia). 



Norape puella Walker. 



Norape puella Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., iii, 775, 1855. 



The striped effect of the wings is well marked, but the 

 species is of a more slender build than those heretofore con- 

 sidered. The black, wedge-shaped streaks between the veins 

 of the fore wing make the species easily recognizable. Walker 

 placed the genus in the Arctiidas and was followed by Kirby 

 in his catalogue (1892), but Schaus correctly refers it to the 

 Megalopygidae (1900). The white species of Arctiida?, Li- 

 paridaj, Cochlidiidse, and Megalopygidae have been very con- 

 fusing to the older authors and to some later ones, too. 



Norape venata Schaus . 



Norape venata Schaus, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., viii, 230, 1900. 



This species is of the usual structure, the body parts rather 

 stout. The striped effect of the wings is slightly indicated, 

 but is nearly lost. The longitudinal gray streaks between the 

 veins are characteristic. 



