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in the male, are slightly ciliate beneath. The caputal parts are much 

 reduced and proportionally even smaller than in Baptria, From Era- 

 teina it differs by the absence of the abdominal marginal fold of the 

 secondaries. The wings are large; primaries slightly excavated or 

 sinuous on external margin before the angle. 



The species are blackish, powdered with yellowish atoms beneath and 

 provided with metallic bands on the upper and lower surface of the 

 wings, which acquire a bluish lustre in //. infulata. H. erota from 

 Surinam belongs to this genus and probably other species hitherto re- 

 ferred to Erateina, the types of which latter genus are quite distinct 

 from the present. Our species are from Virginia and Xew York. 

 Their flight is apparently diurnal. 



Heliomata infulata. 



Baptria infulata., Grote, Proc. E. S. Phil. Vol. 2, p. 67. PI 3, fig. 4. (1S63.) 

 Erateina infulata, Grote, Proc. E. S. Phil. Vol. 3, p. 54-2. (1864.) 



Habitat. — Virginia. Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil. 

 Heliomata cycladata. n. s. (Plate 4, fig. 0. 9 •) 



Allied to H. infulata. Anterior wings blackish, largely covered with 

 deep yellowish scales, especially margining the pale oblique bands 

 which are placed as in II infulata, but broader and greatly paler. Two 

 exterior tremulous lines of metallic scales as in H infulata, but more 

 approximate and less bluish. Secondaries with a very broad pale me- 

 dian band, much wider and paler than that on the secondaries of //. 

 infulata ; two exterior metallic hues as in the primaries but wider apart. 



Under surface resembling upper in ornamentation, but the bands are 

 paler and the deep yellow central scales on the primaries are wanting. 

 Some pale yellow costal marks at base. Head, with powdery yellowish 

 atoms on the clypeus, behind, with a narrow ring of yellowish scales. 

 Prothorax and tegula3 dark, mixed with glistening scales. Abdomen 

 dark; the segments above narrowly ringed with yellow scales. Beneath, 

 the legs and thoracic parts yellowish, the former with scattered black 

 atoms. Abdomen pale yellowish; anal segment, brownish. 



The male of this beautiful species resembles the female, but the bands 

 on the wings are wider. 



Exp.S and 9 1.00 inch. Length of body 0.30 inch. 



Habitat.— ^e\v York State. Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil. Also Coll. Mr. 



James Angus, '\Yest Farms, X. Y., and of Messrs. F. <fc J. Tepper and 



E. L. Graef, Brooklyn, X. Y. 



Heliomata elaborata. 



Baptria elaborata, Grote, Proc. E. S. Phil. Vol. 2. p. 67, PL 3, fig. 5. (1863.) 

 Erateina elaborata, Grote, Proc. E. S. Phil. Vol. ;;, p. 042. 1 1864.) 



Habitat. — Virginia. Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil. 



