Dec. 1894] Neumcegen & Dyar. N. A. Bombyces. 149 



var. suprema Nennuvgen. 



1885 — Sphiugicaiiipa l>ico/or\av. suprema Nrumcegen, Ent.Amer. , Vol.1, p. 94. 



var. immaculata Jewett. 



1882 — Adelocephala bicolor var. ivtinaciilata Jrwett, Pap., Vol. II, p. 144. 



Primaries ocherous brown, shading into dark flesh pink along 

 external and internal margins, nearly covered with strigose slate 

 gray dots. Two white discal dots and a diffuse slate gray t. p. 

 band. The rest of the body and hind wings dark pink except base 

 of secondaries and a median band, which are carmine red. Ex- 

 panse, 45 —50 mm. 



The var. suprema is entirely sordid cinereous instead of pink- 

 ish, secondaries carmine except the outer border. 



The var. immaculata lacks the dots on the wings. 



Habitat., Mississippi Valley. 



S. quadrilineata Grote &" Robinson. 



1867 — Adelocephala quadrilineata Grote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Sec, 

 Vol. I. p. ir. 



Closely resembling bicolor but the primaries less covered with 

 strigae and those that are present more clouded. T. a. and t. p. 

 lines smoky blackish, equally distinct. A faint discal cloud without 

 white dots. Secondaries rose color from base to near margin, but 

 yellowish at the edge. 9 Antennae simple. Expanse, 70 mm. 



Habitat., Mexico. 



S. bisecta Lintner. 



1879 — Anisota bisecta LiNi ner, Can. Ent., Vol. XI, p. 10. 



var. nebulosa Neumcegen. 



1890 — Spliingicampa bisecta var. nebulosa Neumcegen, Ent. Amer., Vol. VI, 

 p. 63. 



Ocherous brown. On primaries, a t. a. angulate and t. p. 

 straight oblique well defined purplish black lines, the wing faintly 

 covered with purplish strigae, or almost without them. A faint 

 discal cloud. Secondaries more or less covered by carmine hairs. 

 In the var. nebulosa., the whole fore wing is thickly covered by 

 diffuse smoky black strigre. E.xpanse, 65 — 70 mm. 



Habitat, Texas. 



S. heiligbrodti Harvey. 



I'&T] —Anisota heiligbrodti Harvky, Can. Ent., Vol. IX, p. 110. 



