168 ARCTIAD^. 



1517. Halisidota catenulata. 



Hipocrita catenulata, Hiibn. Samml. Ex. Schmett. i. (1827) ; Kirbv, Cat. 



Het. p. 210. 

 Bombi/x sesia, Sepp, Ins. Surinam, ii. pi. 54 (1848) ; Kirby, Cat.. Het. p. 211. 

 Charidca texta, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 281 (1855) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 208. 

 Halisidota thyophora, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 140 (1896). 

 Halisidota seruba, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 93, part, (nee H.-S.). 



Yellow ; head and thorax slightly marked with brown ; abdomen 

 pale below. Fore wing with numerous fine, rather irregularly 

 waved brown lines, two of them forming a rather sinuous oblique 

 band from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a dark point at 

 angle of discocellulars, and sometimes a whitish streak on lower 

 discocellular ; a dark point on the subterminal line above vein 5 ; 

 a dentate terminal line. Hind wing yellowish white ; 4, 5 from 

 cell or stalked, 8 a spur. 



Hah. CuiJA; Mexico, Presidio (Forre?-) ; Guatemala ( C7iaw?pton) ; 

 Panama {Ribbe, Chamjnon), Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Venezuela, Aroa, 

 type t thyopliora in Coll. Schaus ; Sueinam : Brazil, Espiritu Santo ; 

 Peru, Callao {J. J. Walker) ; Argentina {Leech). Exp., (S 30-40, 

 5 36-46 millim. 



Larva white ; head yellowish ; 1st somite with a dorsal green 

 patch, the 2nd with a dorsal black patch ; a blackish dorsal line ; the 

 anterior and posterior somites with tufts of long white hair pro- 

 jecting forward and backward ; two tufts of yellow hair on terminal 

 somite ; the rest of hair white. Cocoon white. Pupa green. Food- 

 plant, Lnga vera. 



1518. Halisidota lahaca. 



Halisidota labaco, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) v. p. 214 (1890) ; id. Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 371, pi. 74. f. 9 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 210. 



J . Oehreous yellow ; 3rd joint of palpi black ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen orange above. Fore wing with subbasal, 

 antemedial, medial, and postmedial brown spots on costa and medial 

 and postmedial spots on inner margin ; a discoidal point ; a brown 

 patch on terraen from below apex to vein 4. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline yellowish. 



5 . Fore wing with the spots larger, medial and postmedial waved 

 brown bands from cell and vein 4 to inner margin. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalisco {Richardson), 1 d , 1 $ type, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exp., 6 30, $ 36 millim. 



*1519. Halisidota melaleuca. 



Lophocampa melaleuca, Feld. Keis. Kov. pi. 101. f. 7 (1874); Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 217. 



5 . Head and thorax white ; palpi, lower part of frons, antennae, 

 and front of tegulae black-brown ; pectus and legs brown ; abdomen 

 brown, the lateral and ventral surfaces white, with lateral brown 



