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Pupa. — Figured by Abbot. Doubleday's figure is a copy of Abbot's. 



Food plant. — Various si>ecies of oali. Qucrcus ithjrn (Abbot ]\I8.). 



Habitx. — 111 Texas the moth was collected by Eelfrage, Ax)ril li7 and 20, and July 11, showiug; 

 that in that State it is double-brooded. 



Geogmphical distrihiifion. — IT. astdrtc appears to be coufined to tlio Southern States, and 

 not to extend so far north as //. obliqua with its varieties. It is jirojierly a meuiber of the 

 Austroriparian subprovince. 



St. Johns Bluff, ria. (Doubleday); Florida (Thaxter ex Grote); Bosque County, Tex. (Boll, 

 Belfrage, U. S. Nat. Mus.); Georgia, Florida, Texas (U. S. Nat. Mus.); Georgia (Abbot, MS.);. 

 Florida (French). 



Heterocampa luiiata Kdwards. 



(PI. V, lig. 6, ^.) 



Jleterovnmpa hiiiala (II. Edwards), Papilio, iv, p. 64, Marcli, 1SX4. 



Smith, List Lep. Bor. Aiuer.,p. 30, ISDl. 



Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 563, 1892. 

 Lophodonia plumusa U. Edwards, Ent. Aiuer., ii, p. 14, April, 1888. 



Smitli, List Lep. Bor. Amer., p. 30, 18tU. 



Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 563, 1892. 

 Ileterocampa linidta Neum. and Dyar, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, xxi, p. 20.5, 1894 : .lourn. N. Y. Ent. Soc, ii, ]). 117, 

 Sept., 1895. 



Moth. — Two (5 . On examining the type (a S from Colorado) of this .species in the Edwards 

 collection in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, I lind that it should be 

 referred to the genus Heterocampa, and that its jiosition in that genus is near //. hiundatn. The 

 antenuiie are very ijlamose, the pectinations being somewhat longer than usual; the tip is simple, 

 as usual in the genus. The palpi are as usual ascending, larger and rather broad, more so than 

 usual, projecting well in front of the head; the third joint is concealed by the hairs of the second. 

 The ai)ex of the fore wings is considerably produced; the outer edge of the wing long and 

 obli(|ue. The shajye of the hiud wings, of the abdomen, and of the tufts on the thorax are as 

 usual in Heterocampa. 



ISpecific cltaracfcr.s. — Head and body brownish granite gray, the tint peculiar, approaching 

 that of H. manteo, but with more reddish brown scales. Palpi grayish, with a distinct black line 

 along the upper edge. The markings of the fore wings are much as in 77. hiumhtta. 



On the basal third of the fore wing is a faint zigzag line formed of four rather sharj) scallops, 

 the largest scallop with a small narrow one above situated both in the submedian interspace; 

 the last scallop not directed outward, as in 77. hhindata. The linear discal S|)ot is small, black- 

 brown, but distinct, though only lialf as large as in IT. Iiiundaia. The extradisctal line is obsolete. 

 The outer or submarginal series of sublunate brown spots is much as in II. biimdatn, the spots 

 becoming linear in front of the cubital vein. The fringe and the brown line at its base are much 

 as ill 77, biundutu. 



Hind wings whitish, clouded on the costal margin; the fringe long, checkei'ed, but not 

 clouded on the internal angle of the wing. 



Expan.se of wings, $ 43 mm.; length of body, 5 20 mm. 



On comparing Edwards's tyix'S of his Jiinuta in j\Ir. Neumoegen's collection with his type of" 

 plumosa in the American Museum of Natural History, both Hr. Dyar and myself tind that they 

 are the same species. 



Neumoegen and Dyar (Revision, etc.) regard Druce's 77. dardnnia as a synonym of this. 

 species. 



Geogniphifnl distrihution. — A member of the Campestrian subprovince. Colorado (Bruce, 

 IT. S. National Musenin and Amer. Mus. Nat. Hi.st., New York); Arizona (Morrison, Coll.. 

 Neumoegen); Colorado, Arizona (French); Fort Collins, Colo. (Baker); Mexico (Druce). 



