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paler in the incisures, with several oval white spots laterally on 

 the thorax, resembling Tachinid eggs. Posterior end also 

 black; joints 6-10, however, lighter and ornamented with a 

 design in cream-color. This consists of a broken dorsal line, 

 forming an ellipse between the subdorsal spines and a bar at 

 the posterior edge of the segment; two subdorsal lines joined 

 at the ends into a broken figure of 8 ; a few lateral pale oval 

 specks ; a large red blotch about the subventral spines and 

 another over the spines above the bases of the feet. Dorsal 

 spines on segments 13 and 13 only ; subdorsal and lateral spines 

 long, branched, spinulose basally, black on joints 2-5 and 

 11-13, cream-color with black tips on joints 6-10. Subventral 

 spines, one branched and one single ; two single spines above 

 bases of feet. Feet pale. 



Misantla, Vera Cruz, Mexico (W. Gugelmann). 



SATURNIID^. 

 Hylesia umbratula Dyar. 



Head rounded, higher than wide, shining dark coral red 

 with brownish secondary hairs. Body black, feet, cervical 

 shield, and anal plate red. Spines long, slender, uniform, with 

 rather long branches, cream-color. Markings in cream-color, 

 consisting of an irregular quadrate ring about the subdorsal 

 spines and a small one around the lateral spine, followed by a 

 band, which runs to a lateral line that forms an arc across 

 the intersegment from spiracle to spiracle ; a straight substig- 

 matal line, irregular on its upper edge. 



Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico (W. Gugelmann). 



Hylesia euphemia Dyar. 



Head rounded, higher than wide, shining black on the face, 

 the cheeks luteous ; a white line in vertical suture and a V- 

 mark over clypeus. Body sordid brown, with many pale dots 

 at the fine white secondary hairs ; a double dorsal reddish line 

 on the anterior halves of the segments ; a single subdorsal line, 

 more continuous ; a single suprastigmatal line, also reddish ; 

 lateral space blackish shaded; a whitish substigmatal line, the 

 subventral space again blackish. Subdorsal spines on joints 



