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underside ol primaries thickly, of secondaries thinly covered with go 

 Proboscis honey-yellow. Antenna I rig, black, simple. 

 Exp. wing . 15 inn. Length of body, 8 mm. 



2 examples, taken by Mr. A. |. Bolter .1! Los Angeles, S. California, 

 April. 1 879, en Hi >wers. 



This species has a strong superficial resemblance to the Q °' -'• 

 appendiculata, Esp. 



Family BOMBYCIDiE. 



Halisidota significans, n. sp. 



Ground color of primaries, sordid white, with three dentated bands of rich 

 brown, through which run, along the course of the nervures, streaks of dull scarlet, 

 giving the insect a very unusual and striking appearance. The scarlet color i- very 

 apparent on the costa, and there are also faint streaks of the same shade at the base. 

 The exterior margin is also scarlet, with the fringe dull white. Secondaries semi 

 transparent, sordid whit-, with the abdominal margin buff. Underside with thesame 

 markings, but fainter. Thorax dull scarlet, streaked with sordid white. Abdomen, 

 may b.own. Exp, wing-, 40111111. 



1 '. I as Vegas, X. Mexico. A. J. Bolter. 



An entomological anecdote has to lie related with reference to this 

 species. 1 described this ami Seirarctia Bolieri when in Chicago, 3 years 

 ago, ami soon afterwards Mr. Bolter sent colored drawings ofboth sp< ■ h - 



to Mr. R. H. Stretch. On mv return home, some weeks later, I received 

 a letter from Mr. Stretch in which he says : "Your Halisidota significans 

 is a synonym of Strecker's //. a?nbigua." The manuscript of my paper 

 was then in the printer's hands, hut 1 at once sent to have the description 

 stricken out. 1 was in time to get this done, but it turned out, when it 

 \\a-> too late, that Mr. Stretch meant that my Seirarctia Bolieri was the 

 synonym, and thus I redescribed one of Mr. Strecker's species, ami left 

 the new one, which I now publish, unrecorded. This is one of the most 

 beautiful of all Halisidotas and resembles in its coloration some of the 

 tropical forms. The unique type is in Mr. Bolter's collection. He was 

 good enough however, to furnish me with an exquisite drawing of the 

 insect. 



Inguromorpha, new genus. 



A genus closely allied to Cossus, and deemed by Mr. 1. I!. Smith, 

 to whom I submitted the specimen for examination, to be identical with 

 it. lb- points out the distinctions, however, ami they are so marked and 

 the nisei t so unlike the ordinary species of Cossus in coloration and mark- 

 ings, that I think it wise to s parate it, which I do at least provisionally, 

 under the above mime. 1 am fortified in this course also, by the opinion 

 oi 1),. Packard, who has also seen die specimen, and who believes it to 

 be a new genus. 



