CLEAR-WING MOTHS OF FAMILY AEGERIIDAE 47 



CARMENTA PYRALIDIFORMIS AURANTIS, new variety 



Plate 19, Figure 109 



This is a color form with abdominal bands and markings deep orange 

 (^r red in place of the lemon yellow characteristic of typical pyralidifonnis. 

 It represents the southern extension of pymlidiformis, beginning in South 

 Carolina and northern Florida and becoming fixed in the coastal regions 

 of the Gulf of Mexico into Texas. 



This form, which occurs in a warm, more humid climate, has the 

 same food plants and habits as the typical pyralidifonnis, but its period 

 of emergence is September and October instead of August and September 

 as in the northern range of the species. 



Type— U.S. NM. No. 56827, male. Also female allotype, 32 male 

 and 28 female paratypes. Collected at Mobile, Ala. In the United States 

 National Museum. 



CARMENTA ANTHRACIPENNIS (Boisduval) 



Plate 19, Figure 110 



Sesia anthracipennis Boisduval, Histoire naturelle des insectes : Species general des 



lepidopteres heteroceres, vol. 1, p. 392, 1874. 

 Synanthedcm anthracipennis McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada 



and the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8707, 1939. 



Male. — Antennae stout, finely ciliate, .black. Labial palpus rough, 

 deep tawny-yellow, third joint black above, tawny beneath. Head black. 

 Collar deep tawny-yellow. Thorax violaceous-black, yellow-striped lat- 

 erally; beneath shiny metallic black with a few scattered yellow scales. 

 Abdomen deep black, shiny ; segments 2, 4, and 6 well marked with 

 narrow yellow bands above ; segments 3, 5, and 7 sometimes, but not 

 always, slightly edged with yellow. Anal tuft broadly wedge-shaped, 

 black. Coxae of front legs lustrous deep yellow ; posterior tibiae rough, 

 black, deep yellow between the spurs. First tarsal joint slightly thickened, 

 black; posterior joints dark tawny. Forewing nearly opaque, lustrous 

 bronze a.nd violaceous-black; usually a well-marked vitreous area before 

 and a very narrow vitreous dash behind the discal mark ; these vitreous 

 areas sometimes greatly reduced or nearly absent; beneath forewing 

 heavily shaded deep yellow along the costa and on the basal half. Hind- 

 wing transparent, margin narrow, even, deep black, fringes broad, dull 

 black ; vein Ic broadening to apex. 



Female. — Differs from male by its entirely opaque, lustrous-black 

 forewings with very occasionally a tawny dot before the discal mark. 

 Hindwing transparent, widely and irregularly margined with black, with 

 suffusions between the veins about half the distance to the cell. Ab- 

 dominal segments 2 and 4 conspicuously banded with deep yellow ; seg- 

 ments 5 and 6 thinly banded or barely touched with yellow. Posterior 



