CLEAR-WING MOTHS OF FAMILY AEGERIIDAE 121 



THAMNOSPHECIA REFULGENS race SEMINOLE (Bentenmttller) 



Sesia seminole Beutenmuller, Journ. New York Ent. Soc., vol. 7, p. 255, 1899; 



Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1. pt. 6, p. 305, pi. 2,2>, figs. 18, 20, 1901. 

 Synunthedon seminole McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and 



the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8743, 1939. 



Male. — The unique type was figured by Beutenniiiller. Through the 

 courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History it was possible to 

 prepare a slide of the genitalia of the type. On the evidence offered by 

 these structures seminole is conspecific with refulgens. It appears to differ 

 only in its smaller average size and in the slightly heavier scaling on the 

 forewings. Until the food plant is known and a sufficient number of ex- 

 atnples have been obtained by rearing, the name seminole is retained to 

 designate a race of rejulgens. Forewing narrow, transparent areas inside 

 and outside discal mark reduced, smaller than in rejulgens. Costa, veins, 

 and narrow border dull black; dull-orange rays between the veins from 

 outer margin to near discal mark, which is a conspicuous orange-red and 

 only narrowly edged with black inside ; fringes brown-black ; underside of 

 forewing shaded with golden yellow. Hindwing transparent, crossvein 

 on upper part scaled with orange. The color markings and their arrange- 

 ment on the body and on the appendages agree exactly with those of 

 rejulgens. 



The United States National Museum collection contains two Florida 

 examples, which may be considered authentic. One from Lake Worth 

 bears the label "type" ; the other from De Funiak Springs, May 20, 1921, 

 is an exact replica. Two female types are at the American Museum of 

 Natural History. In addition, two females occur in my representation of 

 rejulgens, one from Spring Creek, Ga., July 16, 1929, and the other from 

 Chickasaw, Ala., April 7, 1930, which, if labeled from Florida, would be 

 designated as seminole without hesitation. This further supports the view 

 that the two names apply to a single variable species. 



Female. — Forewing heavily scaled, suffusing the clear space before and 

 greatly reducing the clear space behind the discal mark, which is orange 

 outwardly and well marked with black inwardly. In general the colors are 

 a blending of orange and dull black, less contrasting than in rejulgens. 

 The thorax and abdomen are dull black with coppery rather than bluish 

 reflections. Otherwise like rejulgens. 



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



Distribution. — Central and northern Florida. 



Type. — Male. In the American Museum of Natural History. From 

 Lake Worth, Fla. 



The type and paratypes were collected by Mrs. A. T. Slosson and are 

 not dated, but according to Beutenmiiller they were taken in February. 



