EXTEA. PHCENICOPHAIJTA. G53 



mid and hind tibiae at extremities brownish ; abdomen ochreous 

 suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing with the basal half 

 orange-j'ellow, its outer edge rather oblique ; the terminal half 

 glossy black-brown. Hind wing fuscous brown with a greyish 

 tinge, the base pale ochreous. 



Fig. 183. — Exyra iemicrocea, (S . \. , 



Ab. 1. huhbardiana. Fore wing with the terminal area greyish, 

 leaving broad dark medial and subterminal bands. — Florida, de 

 Funiak Springs, bred from Sarracenia jlava. 



Hah. U.S.A., Middle, Central, and Southern States, 1 cJ . Exi^. 

 32 millim. 



Larva. Eiley, Can. Ent. vi. p. 208, fig. 25 ; and Trans. St. Louis Ac. Sci. 

 iii. p. 236, fig. 10. 



White banded with purple or lake-red and with series of tubercles 

 more prominent on the 1st four abdominal somites. The larva 

 feeds in the cup of Sarracenia variolaris and S. Jlava, spinning a 

 web over the surface and drawing the lips together; it forms a 

 slight cocoon in the exuviae which collect in the bottom of the 

 cup. 4-5. 



Genus PH(ENICOPHANTA, nov. 



Type, P. flavifera. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the ord short ; frons with large rounded 

 prominence, somewhat truncate below ; eyes large, round ; antennse of male 

 somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales and without crests; tibite slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 

 7,8,10 stalked, 9 absent; 11 from cell; male with an elongate groove on 

 upperside above base of vein 6 which is displaced downwards, the subcostal 

 neuration distorted. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



5991. Phcenicophanta flavifera, n. sp. 



Head and thorax bright yellow ; crimson bars above frons and 

 between antennae which are rufous, the tegulae at base and meso- 

 thorax with crimson bars ; fore legs blackish in front, the coxae 

 tinged with crimson, the tarsi with slight pale rings ; abdomen 

 yellow tinged with rufous except at base. Fore wing bright 

 yellow, the costal area crimson, leaving a small yellow spot at base, 



