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White ; head ocherous, body with a more or less well defined 

 dorsal brown stripe. Besides the usual brown border, the fore 

 wings have an oblique stripe from just below apex to outer fourth 

 of inner margin, and three transverse equidistant bands. The 

 two outer from costa to the stripe, the basal one to internal margin. 

 In the less distinctly spotted forms these bands disappear, the 

 oblique band and finally the border also, leaving the wing white 

 with ocherous costal margin {ya.v. fi/lvicosfa). Expanse, 45 mm. 



Habitat, Atlantic States westward. 

 H. contigua Walker. 



1855 -Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., pt. Ill, p. 651. 



In this form the transverse bands consist of two, an inner 

 oblique from internal angle to near middle of costa, and an outer 

 band from just below apex, joining the inner band near its middle 

 and running nearly parallel to the costa. In less well marked 

 forms, the outer band disappears first. 



Habitat, Atlantic States. 



H. reversa Stretch. 



1885 — Stretch, Ent. Amer., Vol. I, p. 104. 

 1887 — suffusa Smith, Ent. Amer., Vol. Ill, p. 25. 



var. duplicata Neiimocgen 6^ Dyar. 



White, marked like colona. The brown markings disappear as 

 in that species, leaving an immaculate white form (var. duplicata). 



Habitat, Southern States. 

 H. confusa Lyman. 



1887— Lyman, Can. Ent., Vol. XIX, p. 185. 



White, the body parts normally marked. Primaries marked as 

 in lecontei but confused by an additional band (as in reversa) which 

 runs from the internal angle upward and inward, and tends to divide 

 the median white space so that the wing appears brown with six or 

 seven rounded white spots. The disappearance of the bands takes 

 place as in lecontei, from the base outward ; but the oblique band is 

 not left complete, but as a sharply angulated line from inner margin 

 to apex, bent at right angles at its lower third and joined to the costa 

 by the one or two outer transverse bands. Expanse, 35 — 40 mm. 



Habitat, Northern Atlantic States, New York to Canada. 



H. vestal is Packard. 



1864 -Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. Ill, p 108. 

 1887— Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 351. 



Head very pale yellow, antennae very pale brown. Thorax and 



abdomen white, immaculate, legs pale fulvous. Primaries white, 



usually immaculate, often with the costal and outer margin a little 



dusky. Secondaries and under side pure white. Expanse, 33 — 37 mm. 



Habitat, Northern Atlantic States westward. [Smith.] 



