494 AKCTTADiE. 



Ab. 1. carolivo. Fore wing with bands from costal fascia and the 

 oblique fascia from termen to lower angle of cell absent or partially 

 aborted. 



Ab. 2. conscita. The whole of the black-brown markings aborted ; 

 fore wing with the costal edge fulvous. 



ffab. U.S.A., 8. Atlantic States to Texas, Grote & Vigors Coll., 

 7 d , 2 2 , type conscita. Exp. 52 millim. 



2101. Haploa lecontei. 



Callimorpha lecontei, Guer. Icon. R. Anim., Ins. p. 517, pi. 88. f. 4 (1829) ; 



Stretch. Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. pp. B2, 23fi, pi. 2. ff. 20, 21 & pi. 9. ff. 13, 



14 ; Streck. Proc. Davenport Soc. ii. p. 275, pi. 4. fF. 5, 7 ; Lyman. Can. 



Ent. xix. p 182. ff. 1, 2 ; Sraitli, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 348, pi. 14. 



ff. 12-1(1 ; Xirbj, Cat. Het. p. 252. 

 Callimorpha militaris, Harr. Rep. Ins. Mass. p. 243 (1841); Smith, Proc. 



U.S. ISat. Mus. X. p. 345, pi. 14. ff. 3-5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 253. 

 Hypercompa confinis, Wlk. iii. p. 651 (1853) ; Lyman. Can. Ent. xix. p. 183, 



f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 253. 

 Callimorpha Icucomelas, Herr.-Schjiff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 431 (1858). 



Head and tcgulae orange ; palpi at tips and antennas black-brown ; 

 tegulse often with black-brown spots ; thorax white, with black- 

 brown stripes on shoulders and vertex ; pectus white ; legs tinged 

 with orange, the fore and mid legs striped with black-brown ; 

 abdomen white, often with dorsal black-broAvn stripe. Fore wing 

 white ; a black-brown costal fascia narrowing to a point before 

 apex ; a fascia on inner margin, narrowing to a point near base ; 

 an antemedial band oblique from costal fascia to submedian fold 

 where it is angled ; a nearly erect discoidal band from costal fascia 

 to the fascia on inner margin, where it is joined by an oblique 

 fascia from termen below apex ; a terminal band often ending in a 

 point above tornus. Hind wing pure white. 



Ab. 1. milltarh. Fore wing with the oblique band from below 

 apex interrupted towards termen and between veins 3, 4. 



Ab. 2. confinis. Fore wing with the oblique band complete, the 

 other bands aborted. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing white with the costal edge ochreous. 



Hah. Canada, Orclla (Bnsh), 2 $ ; U.S.A., Atlantic States, 3 S , 

 2 5 {Douhhclay), type confinis, Ohio (Dniri/), 1 5 , Massachusetts, 

 Beverly, 1 J . E.ip. 50 millim. 



Egg. Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soe. iii. p._ 59 (1895). 



Very pale yellow, scarcely shining ; reticulations small, close, 

 well-marked, rounded ; diam. "7 mm. 



2102. Haploa contigua. 



Hppercompa contigua, Wlk. iii. 651 (1855) ; Lyman, Can. Ent. xix. p. 184, 

 'f. 10: Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 346, pi. 14. t. 6; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 252. 



Head and tcgula? orange; palpi except at base and antennae 

 black ; tfgulaj with ])lack sjjots ; thorax white, with black strij)es 

 on slioulders and vertex ; fore legs orange striped with black ; mid 



