148 . AKCTIAD^. 



terminal series of spots, the former with the spots above veins 4 and 3 

 smaller and displaced outwards ; a terminal series of points. Hind 

 wing white, with some ochreous and brown spots on terminal two- 

 thirds of costal area on underside. 



2 . Abdomen brown and white ; fore wing with hardly any 

 ochreous irroration. 



Hab. Colombia, 1 c^ , 1 $ , type t in Coll. Schaus. E.vj)., d 46^ 

 2 52 millim. 



1476. Halisidota argentata. 



Halisidota argentata, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philacl. iii. p. 129 (1864) ; 

 Stretch, Zvg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 135, pi. 6. f. 12 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 208. 



Head and thorax yellowish white, palpi brown except at tips ; 

 antennae reddish brown, tegulae with brown spots ; patagia edged 

 with brown, mesothorax with brown spots ; legs banded with 



Fig. 90. — Halisidota argentata, <5' . \. 



brown ; abdomen yellowish white, more orange on dorsum, some 

 sublateral and ventral brown marks. Fore wing dark red-brown^ 

 slightly irrorated with white ; some obliquely placed white points at 

 base and a short fascia on inner margin ; five yellowish spots on 

 costa ; two antemedial white spots in submedian interspace, with 

 a point beyond them in cell and a medial spot below the cell; a 

 triangular spot in end of cell, and small spots above and below base 

 of vein 2 and slight marks on discocellulars ; oblique postmedial and 

 subterminal series of spots, the former having the spots above veins 

 4, 3, and inner margin smaller ; a terminal series of small triangular 

 yellowish-white spots. Hind wing yellowish white, with small 

 brown discoidal spot and a spot often bifid at apex ; the underside 

 with medial and postmedial spots on costa ; vein 8 represented by 

 two spurs not reaching costa. 



Hab. British Columbia : U.S.A., Mountains of California, 1 6 , 

 (jrote Coll. Exp., <S 38, $ 60 millim. 



Subsp. 1. suhalpina, French, Can. Ent. xxii. p. 47(1890); Kirby, Cat. Het, 

 p. 209. 



Thorax marked with redder brown ; fore wing very thickly irro- 

 rated with ochreous white, which becomes the predominant colour 

 towards costa and inner margin. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eocky Mts., Colorado, 1 cJ . 



