Dec. 1899.] Beutenmuller : New North American Lepidoptera. 255 



the veins. It is allied to Sesia texana. Described from a perfect 

 male collected by Mrs. A. T. Slosson. 



Sesia seminole, sp. nov. 



Male : Head and antennae brown-black ; palpi and collar in front, pale orange. 

 Thorax brown-black, with a nanow orange line on the patagia and a transverse line 

 of the same color posteriorly. Abdomen brown-black, with a somewhat metallic re- 

 flection in certain light ; at the posterior end of the second, fourth and last seg- 

 ment is a narrow orange-yellow band. Anal tuft black, slightly orange at the middle, 

 beneath. Middle and hind femora blackish, tibias violet, with an orange band at the 

 middle. Tarsi orange inside, violaceous outside. Fore wings narrow, transparent 

 area present but not characteristic ; costal margin brown-black, outer part of wing 

 with the veins heavily marked with brown-black, with narrow rays of orange between, 

 fringes brown-black ; inner margin scaled with orange ; transverse mark conspicuous, 

 orange red, transparent space beyond, small and round. Hind wings transparent, a 

 small orange mark at upper end of cell, margin and fringes violaceous. Under side 

 of fore-wings washed with golden orange. Expanse, 17 mm. 



Female : Similar to the male in color and markings of body and legs. Fore wings 

 broader, with the outer margin less oblique. Basal transparent area filled with orange, 

 broken by the dark median vein ; outer transparent area filled with orange between 

 the dark veins. The dark parts of the wings have a decided violet reflection, much 

 more so than in the male. Transverse mark orange, marked with black at the inner 

 part. The margin of the hind wing is also violet. Expanse, 15-18 mm. 



Habitat : Lake Worth, Florida. 



Collected by Mrs. A. T. Slosson. Types Coll. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. 



Memythrus Neivmati. 



McDiythrus Nfavman, Sphinx vespiformis, an Essay, 1832 ; Ent. Mag. Vol. I, 1S32, 



p. 47. 

 Sciapteron Staudinger, Sesiis Agri. Berolinensis, 1854, p. 43 ; Stett. Ent. Zeit. 



Vol. XVII, 1856, p. 195. 



Newman in his essay on Sphinx vespiformis, erected the genus 

 Memythrus for this species. It is the same insect we know at present 

 in European lists as tabajiiformis for which Staudinger proposed the 

 generic name Sciapteron. The name Memythrus has priority and 

 therefore must be used. 



Paranthrene pepsidiformis Hilbner. 



Doubledayin a letter to Harris (Harris' Correspondence, 1869, p. 

 161) stated that this insect is the same as ^geria exitiosa. I have 

 examined the work of Hiibner (Zutr. Exot. Schmett. , 1825, p. 32, 

 Figs. 533 and 534) and find that his pepsidiformis is the female of 



