HYPHANIRIA.. 



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Larva. Smith, Ecp. N. Jersey Exp. Stat. 1805, p. 458; Pack. J. N. Y. Ent. 

 Soc. iii. p. 170 ; Djar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. v. p. 130. 



Black-brown, with subdorsal pale yellow stripes with deeper yellow 

 spots on them and five black streaks ; tufts of hair brown and white. 

 Food-plants : mulberry, persimmon, willow, and wild cherry. 



*18o3. Hyphantria aspersa. (Plate XLVI. fig. 15.) 



Alexiclen aspersa, Grote, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. viii. p. 4(j (1883) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 201. 



S • Blackish fuscous ; a scarlet rim behind the eyes ; tarsi with 

 reddish rings; abdomen scarlet above, with dorsal and lateral 

 fuscous spots; anal tuft with some scarlet medial hairs; wings 

 semidiaphanous. Fore wing with some obscure clouded blackish 

 marks at base, at end of cell, and on subterminal area ; traces of 

 antemedial, medial, and postmedial bands, the last bent inwards 

 below vein 4 ; the veins with slight interrupted white streaks. 

 Hind wing hardly paler, with slight discoidal spot. Fore tibiae with 

 the claw stout. 



Hab. U.S.A., N. Mexico. Exy. 36 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type. 



Sect. II. P'ore wing with vein 5 from above angle of cell. 



*1854. Hyphantria orizaba. 



Spilosoma orizaba, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 389, pi. 77. f. 4 

 (1897). 



(^ . White ; palpi and lower part of frons black, the former with 

 crimson patch on basal joint; antennae black, the basal joint crimson ; 

 tegulse, patagia, and thorax with black stripes, a broad black stripe 

 on metathoi'ax and first segment of abdomen : femora crimson, 

 fringed with white hair, tibial and tarsi crimson and black ; 

 abdomen dorsally crimson from 2nd to terminal segment, with 

 dorsal black stripe, lateral and sublateral series of black spots, the 



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Fig. 152. — Hyphantria orhaha, J. \. 



first three segments with ventral crimson bands. Fore wing with 

 black-brown patch at base of costa and subbasal spot below coll ; a 

 broad antemedial band interrupted by white streaks on the veins 

 and in submcdian fold, its edges irregular and connected by an 

 elongate spot between veins 2 and 3 with Mio double ()bli<iue 

 postmedial series of irregular spots, and with wedge-shaped spots 

 between veins 3 and 5, forming part oC an oblique series increasing 



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