( 6i:^ ; 



Early stages not known. Larva said liy Boisdiival to fei'd on I'lurkin. 



Hah. Pacific district : California ; Oregon ; British Colniubia. " Iowa " 

 according to Smith : error I 



In the Tring Museum 22 c?c?, 1 ? from: Ozoyoos, Brit. Col. (Reynolds): 

 Almots, Washington ; Gold Hill, Oregon (Biedermann) ; California ; Berkeley, 

 California. 



r>54. Proserpinus flavofasciata. 



*.l/«,',rv//".«f(y/<()-'/</.svvV,/„ Walker, /./V/ T.rp. Inx. B. .1/. viii. p. 87, n, ?, (18;",r,) (Iliulsnii's B, Territ,;— 

 Miis. ririt,). 



S ? . Palpns short, obtnse. Ujiporside of head and thorax and end of abdomen 

 (except middle) straw-yellow, rest of body dee]i black, edge of pronotnm and sides 

 of metanotnm also more or less extended black. Distal margin of forewing 

 slightly sinuate behind : a black submcdian band corresponding to the band of 

 i/aiirar, followed by a pale band ; the scaling of tiiis pale band is dispersed and 

 most of the scales are grey ; hindwing with a yellow discal band, which is seldom 

 vestigial only. 



S. Tenth segment as in the other species; tergite slender, faintly sjiatnlate ; 

 sternite much shorter, more than twice as broad, boat-shaped, obtuse, gradually 

 curved upwards at end in side-view. Harpe (PI. IL. f. 18) represented by a 

 straight tapering ridge which is not detached from the clasper. Penis-sheath (PI 

 LIV. f. Ki) with a ]irominent, horizontal, feebly curved, pointed process. 



Early stages not fully known, larva of ^//ai\ racliel noticed by Bruce ; see below- 



Jlah. Nearctic Region, from Hudson's Bay to Vancouver, southward to Colorado. 



Three subspecies. The characters by which the three " species " have been 

 differentiated by the respective authors are not so constant as they have been 

 rejiresented to be. A rare insect, of which we have not seen many specimens. 



(I. V. Jlarofasciata flarqfasciata. 



*M<in-ogl„s!„i farofimr;,,/,, AValker, l.r. (1856): Clem., Jonrn. Ac. N. S,: Phihtd. iv. p. 131. n, 4 

 (1859) (Albany R, Huds. Bay) ; Morris, Gil. Lep. N. Am. p, 17 (18G0) : Clem,, in Morrip, 

 Sipi. Lfp. N. Am. p. 151. n, 1 (186'2); Boisd., %v. Gen. Up. Hit. i. p, 'M'A. n. 51 (1875); 

 Streck,, T.ep. lihop. Net. p. 110, t. Vi. f . 4 ( ? ) (1877) (Canada ; Holyoke, Mass,), 



r.pjMspn;,! flaro/axrwta, Grote, Prm: Ent. Soc. Philad. v. p. 39 (18G5) (Canada) ; id. i<: Rob,, ;},i,l. v, 

 p, 149. n. 1 (1865) ; Beth., Canad. Ent. i. p. 10. n. 7 (1869) ; Grote, Ihdl lUiffido Soc. N. Sr. 

 i, p, 17 (1874) (Canada) : id., I.e. ii. p. 225, n. 17 (1875) ; id., !.c. iii. p. 221. n. 19 (1877) 

 (Canada) ; Butl., Trims. Zool. Sac. Loud, ix, p. 517. n. 1 (1877) ; Fish., Caiiad. Ent. x. p. 140 

 (1878) (Maine, one specim. May 28th) ; Fern,, ibid, xvi, p. 21 (1884) (Orono, Maine) ; id,, 

 Sphing. N. Engl. p. 19, n, 6 (1886) (Maine ; June, midday) ; Giote, Iluwk Moths X. Am. p. 27 

 (1886) (Can,; East, State.s ; Northern N, York, iv, v.) ; Smith, Trans. Amer. Ent. Sue. xv, 

 p. Ill (1888) (Hudson's Bay Territ, ; Canada ; Maine ; Mass.) ; Lym,, Canod. Ent. xxiii. p, 8 

 (1891) (Ormstown, Chateauguay Co., Albany R,, Hudson's Bay territory ; Strecker's fig. too 

 pale yellow); Kirby, Cut. Lep. Uti. i, p, 628. n. 1 (1892); Hanh,, Canad. Ent. xxxi. p, 50 

 (1899) (Manitoba, I specim., v.). 



<S ? . Yellow band of hindwing reaching to abdominal margin. 

 Nab. Eastern Canada and New England. 

 In the British Museum 1 c?. 



/a /'. fiavofasciata ulalmnc. 



Mi,eru,jh,^s,i idiihime Strecker, Lep. lihnp. Ilet. p. 135. t. 15. f . 3 ( ? ) (1878) (Oregon). 

 L<'pi.-<esia idalume, Smith, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xv. p. Ill (1888) ; Edw., Enl. Amer. iii. p. 223 

 (1888) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Tlel. i. p. 628. n. 2 (1892) , Gibs., Camid. EiU. xxxi. p. 370(1899) 



