42 NocxriD.T;. 



narrow and triangular, a narrow black subtcrminal band, the 

 termen orange, cilia orange-yellow. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Arizona, Iluacbuca Mts. Exp. 80-85 

 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



Genus MORMOmA. 



Type. 



Mormonia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 276 (1827) epionc. 



Astiotes, Hiibn. Verz. p. 277 (1827) dilecta. 



Blepharum, Hiibn. Tent, iued !<po7isa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle 

 of frons and moderately scaled, the Srd moderate ; frons smooth with tuft of 

 hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennse of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with 

 hair and scales mixed, the pro- aiid metathorax witli flight spreading crests, 

 the mesothorax with small paired crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair, 

 the fore tibia; not spined, the mid and hind tibiaj spined, the latter both before 

 and between the spurs; the mid tibise of jnale dilated with a fold containing 

 a tuft of long hair ; abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair and hairy crests on 

 basal segments. Fore wing triangular, the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 carved and crennlate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 i'rom upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing witli 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing black-brown , ejnone. 



B. Hind wing crimson or scarlet. 



a. Hind wing with the medial black band angled outwards 



at discal fold and excurved at submedian fold. 

 a^. Hind wing on imderside witiiout. black streak in 



cell, the medial band excurved below costa s-ponsa. 



■ 6'. Hind wing on underside with black streak in cell, 

 the medial band oblique from costa to discal fold. 



«^. Hind wing crimson dilecta. 



h"^. Hind wing scarlet dula. 



b. Hind wing with the medial band oblique to submedian 



fold, then bent outwards to inner margin mcso'poi arnica. 



c. Hind wing with the medial band obliquely curved. 



a^. Fore wing on underside with the basal half crimson, aholihah. 



h^. Fore wi]ig on underside brownish white amatrix. 



C Hind wing black with small discoidal cloud, narrow 



medial band, and broad terminal band, orange ccdphurnia. 



D. Hind wing yellow or orange. 



a. Fore wing on underside yellow or orange. 



fli. Hind wing with the medial band oblique to sub- 

 median fold, then more or less bent inwards towards 

 inner margin, 

 a^. Hind wing with the inner area more or less 

 suffused with brown. 

 a^. Fore wing with oblique black-brown fascia from 

 base of costa to below end of cell, 

 a^. Hind wing with the medial and terminal 

 bands broad, the submedian interspace suf- 

 fused with brown to the medial band scoriorum. 



h^. Hind wing with the medial and terminal 

 bands narrower, the submedian interspace 



tinged with brown at base only abamita. 



b^. Fore wing without oblique black-brown fascia 

 from base of costa to below end of cell. 



