130 JoHUNAL New York Ent. Soc. [Voi. ii. 



Fore wings black, sub-translucent with white or pinkish 

 triangular discal dot. Basally, centrally and sub-terminally, the 

 black is more or less replaced by pulverulent white, not segregated 

 into well defined marks. Abdomen and secondaries orange red 

 with black border and round discal spot, in the c^ overspread with 

 black, but not enough to entirely obscure the colors. Thorax 

 black, mixed with pale yellowish hairs. Expanse, 45 — 50 mm. 



Habitat^ Southern California. 



H. maia Dniry. 



1773 — Ailaciis maia Dkury, 111. Exot. Ent., Vol. U, pi. 24, f. 3. 

 1775 — Bouibyx proserpina FabrICIUS, Syst. Ent., p. 561. 



var. nevadensis Stretch. 



1872 — Neini/t'Hca ncvaae>isis Stketcu, Zyg-. & Bomb. N. A., Vol. I, p. 108. 

 1886 — Hemiletica maia var. Iticiiia IIy. Edwards, Ent. Amer., Vol. I, p. 108. 



race californica Wright. 



1888 — Ilemilciica cali-fomica Wright, Can. Ent., Vol. XX. p. 31. 



1893 — Hcniileuca artemis PacivARD, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, Vol. XXXF, p 172. 



Sub-translucent black, with a pale yellowish band on both 

 wings partly or wholly enclosing a black discal spot which contains 

 a yellowish sub-hyaline streak or lunule, less distinct on secondaries. 

 Thorax black, with yellowish hairs on collar and red hairs at end 

 of thorax, or thorax entirely yellowish to the red hairs. Abdomen 

 tipped with red in (^, yellowish in 9. The band varies in width, 

 being usually narrow in specimens from the Eastern States, broader 

 in those from the West. Californian specimens are distinguished 

 as indicated in the table. Expanse, 45 — 70 mm. 



Habitat, North America. 



H juno Packard. 



1871 — Hnnilciua jiino Packard, Rep. Peab. Aoa., Vol. IV, p. 87. 

 18S1 — IIcmilcHca yavapai NKUM(J':r.KN, Pap., Vol. I, p. 172. 



Black, collar pale yellow and pale hairs on thorax mixed with 

 black. Tip of abdomen red, in the rf, this color extending more 

 or less up the dorsum even to base of thorax. On primaries a 

 white band divided by the veins opaque, broadest near costa, which 

 it does not reach. A yellowish irregular triangular discal dot 

 surrounded by black, projecting into the white band. A similar 

 band on secondaries but n^uch reduced, pulverulent, often absent. 

 Rarely traces of a discal dot. 



Habitat, Mexico to Arizona, 



