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described in ihe thinly scaled, not hain-, condition of the wings and the 

 prevalence of black and white in the jjattern instead of warmer colors. H. 

 maia, expanding 2^ inches, is subtransparent black with a broad middle 

 transverse band of white on each wing; in this band is a small blackish blotch 



Fig. 610. — The lo cmperor-nioth, Aulomcris io, and cocoon; female moth above; 

 male below, (.^ftcr Lugger; natural size.) 



isolated in the hind wings, but connected with the black of the base in the 

 fore wings. This species occurs in the eastern states; a similar species, H. 

 nri'iiJoisis, being found from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific; //. electra, 

 found in southern California, has the hind wings blackish red; other species, 

 found in New Mexico and Arizona, are mostly black and white with a red- 



