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5-HALESIDOTA TESSELLARIS, (Pi. 6, fig. 9, ? .) 



Phahr?ia iesselhiris, Smith, N. H. Lep. Ins. Georgia, p. 149. 



(I797-) 

 Halesidola iessellaris, Hiibn, Verz. p. 170. (1816.) 

 Arclia iessellaris, Harris, Cat. Ins. Mass. Hitchcocks' Rt. p. 592. 



(1833) 

 Halesidola Iessellaris, Hiibn. Geyer's Forts. Hiibn. Zutr. Dritt. 



Hund. p. 34, fig. 939. 940. (1837.) 

 Lophocampa Iessellaris, Harris, Rt. Ins. Mass. p. 260. (1841.) 

 Halesidola Iessellaris, Walk. ,' Cat. Lep. B. M. V. p. 732. (1855.) 

 Halesidola Iessellaris, Clem., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 534. 



(i860.) 

 Halesidola Iessellaris, Morris, Syn. Lep. N. Am. App. p. 348. 



(1863.) 

 Halesidola Iessellaris, Sounders, Syn. Can. Arct. p. 19. (1863.) 

 Halesidola antiphola, Walsh, Proc. Post. Soc. N. H. IX, p. 288. 



(1864.) 

 Halesidola Iessellaris, Va-ck., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. 3, p. 128 



(1864.) 

 Halesidola antipJwla, Pack., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. 3, p. 128 



(1864.) 

 Halesidola Harrisii, Walsh, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. 3, p. 430. 



(1864.) 

 S . ? . — Head prothorax and patagia pale yellow ochre, the latter 

 narrowly edged inwardly with blueish green. Thorax and abdomen 

 above darker, beneath paler. Legs concolorous with thorax. 



Anterior wings subdiaphanous, very thinly scaled, very pale ochre- 

 ous, with five irregular, slightly darker, somewhat dusky bands, very 

 narrowly and neatly edged with black. The ist band is sub basal, 

 reaching only to the sub-median vein ; the 2nd lies across the base of 

 the fourth median nervulc, reaches from the costato the inner margin, 

 and is somewhat sinuate in the discal area ; the 3rd is on the discal 

 vein and reaches only from the costa to the median vein ; the 4th is 

 submarginal, sinuate, somewhat widest on the inner margin which is 

 reached at the anal angle ; the 5th is marginal with an irregular inner 

 edge, and diminishes in width from the apex to anal angle. 



Secondaries immaculate, nearly white, suffused with pale ochre on 

 the inner maro:in. 



