130 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



6-11 shortened, bushy, the rest uniform with somewhat tufted 

 tips; shaft and tips black, the lateral branches pale. 

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



SYNTOMID^ 



Pseudosphex strigosa Druce. 



Head small, rounded, black, wider than high, a pale line in 

 the vertical suture. Body dark without prominent markings; 

 some pale lines in the intersegments, especially joints 2—3. 

 Hairs moderate, black, in tufts from the warts, barbuled. On 

 joints 4 and 11, from tubercle iii and below it, a pair of black 

 sac-shaped appendages, nearly as long as the hairs. 



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



ARCTIID^ 



Halesidota annulosa Walker. 



Head rounded, wide, shining black; median suture and V- 

 mark over the clypeus whitish. Body pale yellowish, without 

 marks ; warts i and ii dusky, the rest unicolorous with the skin. 

 Hairs in dense even spreading clusters, soiled white. Two 

 slender black pencils on joint 4 on each side; a single pencil 

 from wart iii on joint 12 and a few black hairs subdorsally 

 on joint 13, which also bears a dorsal angular black mark. 



Misantla, Vera Cruz, Mexico fW. Gugelmann). 



LASIOCAMPID^ 



Claphe submarginalis Walker. 



Head rounded, bilobed, squarish, flattened before, with fine 

 white secondary hairs ; dark brown, the upper half of clypeus 

 pale; a white line across the eyes, a mark over mouth and a 

 mark on the vertex of each lobe, consisting of two lines meet- 

 ing a cross-line in front. Body flattened, arched, with sub- 

 ventral rounded lappets. Cream-color, with chocolate brown 

 markings, forming many bands of irregular confluent dots ; in 

 the incisures, a single transverse row of coarse black dots ; in 

 the incisures 5-fi and 6-7, a black area, centrall)'^ waxy black, 

 this part capable of being concealed when the segments are 



