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in the female; beneath, with the legs, paler. Anterior tibiae, brownish 

 outwardly. Three (S 9 9) specimens. Exp. Z and $, 1.45 inch. 

 Length of body, % and 9 , 0.60 inch. 



Habitat.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad. 



Numher 162, Porys MSS. Catalogue. 



I have named this pretty genus after my friend, the Entomologist, 

 Coleman T. Robinson, Esq., of New York City. 



HALISIDOTA, Hiibner. 

 Halisidota cinctipes, n. s. 



Nearly allied to Halisidota tessellaris Hub., but beautifully distinct, 

 and readily distinguished by the general darker color, the wider, darker 

 and more distinctly margined bands en the primaries, the darker an- 

 tennae and palpi, and the distinctly banded legs. The specimens de- 

 scribed by Mr. Walker as H tessellaris, belong to this species which 

 extends into Mexico and probably occurs thi'oughout South America. 



Pale brownish testaceous — Halisidota tessellaris is yellowish testace- 

 ous — head, larger than in its ally, in the $ the lower clypeal half, be- 

 neath the antennal insertion, is brownish. Terminal palpal joints, black- 

 ish, longer, and the entire palpus more prominent than in Halisidot x 

 tessellaris, lower joints banded with blackish, and with ochraceous scales 

 on their outward surface. In the 9 , the palpi are almost entirely black- 

 ish, narrowly interrupted with ochraceous on their outward surface. Tho- 

 racic surface, brownish-testaceous; tegulae, bordered inwardly with dark 

 dull olivaceous hairs; disc of the thorax with a longitudinal greenish 

 stripe. The "green" color is darker and more obscure than in //. tes- 

 sellaris, andi is not equally distinct in all the specimens I have. Abdo- 

 men, ochraceous, anal segments brownish, thus differing in the latter 

 character from H. tessellaris. Beneath, whitish clay-color, without the 

 yellowish shade on the under thoracic parts which characterises its ally. 

 Legs, very distinctly banded with brown bands, analagous to those on 

 primaries, with distinct margins. Femora, tibia? and tarsi, all banded. 



Anterior wings, dull pale brownish-testaceous, traversed by five gemi- 

 nate brown lines as in H. tessellaris, while the spaces enclosed by 

 these lines are covered with darker scales than in its ally, being 

 strongly filled in on costa. The reniform, bis-annulate spot, at the 

 outer extremity of the discal cell, is disconnected from the costal spot 

 above it, and is filled in with dark scales. 



Secondaries, darker than in H. tessellaris; apices with a distinct ter- 

 minate mark. Exp. % , 1.60, 9 2.0J to 2.20 inch. Length of body, 

 % , 0.60, 9 0.70 to 0.80 inch. 



