HALISIDOTA. 165 



rein 2; an obscure oblique brown streak from apex to lower angle 

 of cell ; a series of blackish points on the subterminal lunules and 

 a terminal series. Hind wing with the inner area slightly tinged 

 with brown and some obscure spots or marks on tcrmen. 



Hab. Ecuador {liuM(y), 1 $ ; Surinam ; Brazil, Kio (Jrandc 

 do Sul, Sta. Catherina, Kio Janeiro, 1 $ type, Caslro Parana, <S in 

 Coll. Schaus; Bolivia, Chaco. Exp., 6 48, $ 54 millim. 



1508. Halisidota longa. (Plate XLI. fig. lo.) 



Euhalisidota longa, Grote, Can. Eiit. xii. p. 213 (1880) ; Kirby, Cat. Hit. 

 p. 209. 



Ochreous ; head and thorax slightly tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing irrorated with groups of fuscous scales, some of them forming 

 traces of dentate postmedial and subterminal lines ; an oblique 

 streak from lower angle of cell followed by a shorter streak, then a 

 point towards aj^ex : a subterminal series of points. Hind wing 

 yellowish white. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, Enterprise, 1 c? , 1 $ type. Exp., S 50, 

 V 54 millim. 



1509. Halisidota rhomboidea. 



Bombyx rhomboidea, Sepp, Ins. Surinam, ii. pi. 01 (1848) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 211. 

 Halisidota strigiilosa, Wlk. iii. 737 (1855); Drucc, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., ITet. 



i. p. 93 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 211. 

 Fh((i<iptera mandus, Herr.-Schiiff. Aussereur. Schmett. i. f. 286 (1855) : 



Kirby, Cat, Het. p. 211. 

 Halisidota citrina, Wlk. xxxi. 314 (1364). 



Orange-yellow to pale oclireous ; palpi tinged with fuscous in 

 front ; fore femora orange. Fore wing with five very oblicjue scries 

 of rufous-edged spots, elliptical on basal area, lunulate on terminal ; 

 a slight difi'used brownish shade at lower angle of cell ; an oblique 

 series of dark points from apex to inner margin before middle and 

 a subterminal series, both placed on outer edge of series of spots. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the inner area yellower; veins 4,5 

 usually more or less strongly stalked ; 8 absent, represented by a 

 spur or rarel}' reaching eosta. 



Hah. !Mkxico, Jalapa, Cuesta de Misantla (Tnijillo); Guatemala; 

 Panama ( Champion), (Jodman-Salvin Cull. ; Ecuador ; ]5olivia, Chaco 

 (darhjrp), 1 $ ; Pkru, Vilcanota {(ktrkpp)\ Surjxam ; Brazil, 

 Pura, tyjic atrit/ulusa, Sao Paulo {Jones), llio Janeiro {Bucldty). 

 E.fj). 40-54 niillim. 



Larva. Jjlack ; the sutures of head and intersegmental folds of 

 thoracic somites pale ; the thoracic and terminal somites with long 

 black and white hair projecting forward and baekward ; the other 

 somites with nhort white hair; the dorsal and lateral area of 

 Bomites G-l I j)inkish, with dorsal black line. Food-plant, Pa^jjahun 

 indicum (Grarninaceie). 



