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and the markings are thus less distinct. The abdomens of the male speci- 
mens are, however, in better condition than that of the female. The ab- 
domen is light brown, not dark brown, and is irrorated with white scales. 
It has dark brown side spots, and has transverse dark brown bands at the 
junction of the abdominal segments. 
Lapara halicarniae (Strecker). 
Plate XI, figure 1. 
Sphinx halicarnie Strecker, Bull. Brooklyn Entomological Society, III, 
1880, p. 35, figure. 
The type specimen of Lapara halicarniae (Strecker) is, I 
think, a hypertrophied female. Some years ago Dr. William J. 
Holland suggested in the ‘ Moth Book’ (1903, p. 53) that this 
type specimen was a hypertrophied female, and there are two 
facts which indicate the soundness and wisdom of his suggestion. 
1. Other specimens collected at and near the type locality of halicarniae 
(Enterprise, Florida) are like it in all respects, save in the wing form, 
which in the type of halicarniae is bombycid, and in the color, which 
I believe to be faded, as are many of the specimens in the Strecker 
collection. 
2. A female of Protoparce sexta sexta from Ohio has identically the same 
wing form as the type of halicarniae, strongly bombycid. 
Mr. William Schaus, Mr. Andrey N. Avinoff and Mr. Jacob 
Doll are all in agrement with me as to the hypertrophied char- 
acter of the type. In Plate XIII, figure 1, I have reproduced 
the type specimen of halicarniae; in Plate XI, figure 1, a normal 
specimen of what I believe to be the same form; and in Plate 
XIII, figure 2, an outline of the bombycid specimen of Protoparce 
sexta sexta. A description of the normal form follows. 
Al. ant. long., o’', 24 mm.; 9,40 mm. AL. ant. lat., 7%, 13 mm.; @, 
16mm. Marg. ext., oo, 18 mm.; ?, 21 mm. 
Habitat. — Fort Schuyler, Enterprise, and Charlotte Harbor, Florida. 
A series of six males and eight females in coll. B. Preston Clark. 
