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tween the black veins at outer margin to a much-reduced clear space before 

 the large, black discal mark and below the heavily black-scaled costa ; in- 

 ward from the discal mark a narrow clear space extending to the wing 

 base ; fringes broad, brownish black, the orange shading heavier on under- 

 side than above. Hindwing transparent, with a slight shading of black and 

 orange scales between the veins at apex. 



Female. — Forewing only slightly shaded with orange at the outer mar- 

 gin ; abdomen orange, with segments 3, 4, 5, and 6 blue-black above ; anal 

 tuft short, orange. Otherwise like the male. 



Expanse : Male and female 18 to 22 mm. 



Distribution. — Florida, Georgia. 



Types. — U.S.N.M. No. 56835, male, from Gainesville, Fla. Also allo- 

 type female, Gainesville, Fla. ; t\\ o male and two female paratypes, Florida 

 and Georgia, in the United States National Museum. 



Kcmarks. — Records of this beautiful race are confined to Florida with 

 one exception, a reared female from Cordele, Ga., May 7, 1906 (Georgia 

 State coll.). The Florida examples, males and females, were obtained on 

 the campus of the University of Florida, at Gainesville, by rearing from 

 heavily infested young white maples near the agricultural building. The 

 trees subsequently died. An additional specimen was reared from the 

 bark of a red maple near a swamp. The moths emerged in March, April, 

 and May. 



This race has been named in honor of my friend and collaborator August 

 Busck. 



SYLVORA ACERNI race TEPPERI (Hy. Edwards) 



Plate 22, Figure 134 



Pynhotaenla uppcri Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 203, 1881. 



Sesia iepperi Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 137, 1896; 



Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 294, pi. 32, fig. 24 (male), 1901. 

 Syimvthedon iepperi McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and 



the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8726, 1939. 



Male. — Antennae blue-black. Labial palpus orange, third joint black. 

 Head orange above, face blue-black, orbits white. Collar orange. Thorax 

 orange above and beneath, blue-black at the sides before the wing base. 

 Abdomen slender, violaceous or blue-black above and at the sides, except 

 the first segment, which shows a mixture with orange and brownish scales ; 

 venter orange ; anal tuft fan-shaped, touched with blue-black at the base, 

 otherwise wholly orange. Legs orange and blue-black, the femora a mix- 

 ture of these colors, the tibiae of hindlegs blue-black on upper surfaces, 

 mixed with orange beneath, a short tuft of yellow hair at the posterior 

 spurs ; tarsi violaceous. Forewing nearly opaque, metallic black ; a small 

 clear area before and a long, narrow one behind the large discal mark, the 

 clear areas somewhat blurred by scales. Hindwing transparent, broadly 



