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wholly golden yellow, the color extending to the under side» 

 Caudal tuft golden yellow, blackish in the centre above. Palpi 

 golden yellow, with some black hairs at the sides. Fore coxa& 

 golden yellow without, blackish within. Other coxae and femora 

 blackish. Tibiae and tarsi golden yellow, the former marked with 

 black at the joints above. 



Exp. wings. 30 m.m. 



I ?. Washington Terr. (Morrison). 



Type. Coll. E. L. Graef. 



This may be distinguished from B. seqiioicB by its slighter 

 structure, narrower body, golden scales on fore wings, and by the 

 posterior segments of abdomen being wholly yellow and not 

 banded. 



Larunda. n. gen.;l ■^-•vri-/ - 



Antennae moderately pectinated in the (? , almost simple in 

 the ?. Palpi, short, with very broad spreading tuft of hairs. 

 Tongue almost obselete. Abdomen very long, sessile, as wide at 

 the base at the thorax. Caudal tuft large, flat, spreading. Hind 

 tibiae clothed with bunches of long hairs, especially in the ? . 

 Forewings opaque. Hind pair with small vitreous spot at base. 



" Larunda, daughter of Almon, was the nymph who in- 

 formed Juno of the connection between Jupiter and Juturna. 

 For this Jupiter deprived her of her tongue, and ordered Mercury 

 to conduct her to the lower world. On the way thither Mercury- 

 fell in love with her, and she afterward gave birth to 2 Lares.'"^ 

 {SniitJis Classical Diet., page 234.) 



Larunda solituda. n. sp. 



$. Head and thorax brownish, collar, small tuft between 

 the eyes, and fore tarsi pale dull yellow. Antenna; dull brown 

 at the base and apex, deep orange in the middle. Hind tibiae 

 pale yellow, with bunch of orange hairs, which are brownish 

 above. These hairs are very much shorter than those of the 

 genus Mellittia, but are, nevertheless, quite apparent. Forewings 

 quite opaque, dark brown, with a red and yellow shade from base 

 along internal margin, and a streak of same colors in the cell,, 

 reaching almost to the apex, but interrupted by the discal mark. 

 Hind wings, vitreous in the spaces between the subcostal and 

 median nerve, and between the median and submedian, the vitre- 

 ous space terminating before the centre of the wings. Margins, 

 broadly orange red, mixed with brownish scales. Fringes of both 

 wings, olive brown. Abdomen brownish black, with 6 broad pale 

 orange bands, the ist, 3rd and 5th being narrower than the rest. 

 The 4th is broadest of all, and is carried on beneath the ab- 

 domen. Caudal tuft black, yellow in centre. ? Similar to the 

 ^,with band of abdomen, a little narrower and lest distinct. 



Exp. wings. $. 28 m.m. ?. 32 m.m. 



$, . ?. Texas (J. Boll.) (Coll. B. Neumoegen. ?. Kansas 

 (H. Brous.) Coll. C. V. Riley.) 



