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niisia and Grindelia also produced the same species. In Florida the moths 

 emerge from March to Jmie, issuing from larval galleries packed with frass 

 in the crown roots and in the stalks. 



Records from specimens in United States National Museum : Royal 

 Palm State Park, Dade County, Fla., reared from Eupatoriuni, males and 

 females. May 5-16, 1930 (Engelhardt) ; Biscayne Bay, Dade County, Fla., 

 male and female (A. T. Slosson) ; Lake Okeechohee, Glades County, Fla., 

 reared male and female. May 6, 1929 (Engelhardt) ; St. Petersburg, Fla., 

 May 12, 1914, two males (R. Ludwig) ; Dunedin, Pinellas County, Fla., 

 reared from Grindella, male, March 20, 1929 (Engelhardt) ; Palm Beach, 

 Fla., male and female, June 1900 (P. C. Truman) ; Florida City Beach, 

 Fla., one male reared from Eupatorium serotinum, May 6, 1941 (F. M. 

 Jones) ; Lower Matacumbe Key, Fla., one female reared ironi M cLuit'iura 

 deltoidea, May 2, 1941 (F. M. Jones). 



CARMENTA ITHACAE (BeutenmuUer) 



Plate 21, Figures 121, 122 



Sesia ithacae Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, p. 25, 1897; 



Mem. Amer. ]Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 299, pi. 31, fig. 22 (female), 1901. 

 Synanthedon ithacae McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and 



the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8732, 1939. 



Male. — Antennae metallic black, white before the tips. Labial palpi 

 whitish or pale yellow, black above. Head lustrous blue-black. Collar pale 

 yellow. Thorax shiny black, patagia with a thin yellow stripe and meta- 

 thorax tufted with sordid yellow at the sides and pale yellow patches on 

 thorax beneath the wing base. Legs with f orecoxae shiny white, posterior 

 tibiae and tarsi violaceous-black, the former white at the spurs, the latter 

 white at the joints. Abdomen shiny black with violaceous or coppery re- 

 flections ; segments 2, 4, 6, and 7 with thin whitish bands above, the bands 

 narrowly uniting at the sides, the one on segment 4 encircling the body ; 

 Vv'hitish scales scattered along the middle of the abdomen beneath ; anal tuft 

 broadly fan-shaped, shiny black, edged with whitish at the sides and in the 

 center beneath. Forewing with veins 10 and 11 coincident, transparent, 

 costa and margins black, outer margin much broadened by golden-yellow 

 ra3's between the veins ; outer clear area small, square ; basal area triangular 

 to wing base ; discal mark subquadrate, purplish black ; underside pale yel- 

 low on costa and inner margin ; fringes grayish black. Hindwings trans- 

 parent, narrowly margined with black above and beneath. 



Female. — Veiy similar to the male, but the body stouter. Antenna more 

 contrastingly marked with whitish before the tip. Abdominal segments 2, 

 4. and 6 narrowly banded with whitish or pale yellow above and broad, 

 whitish patches at the sides, absent beneath. 



Expanse : Male 15 to 17 mm., female 16 to 18 mm. 



