HAJ.1S1D0TA. 149 



Subsp. 2. sohrina. Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 135, pi. 6. f. 10 (1872); 



Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 209. 

 Fore wing with the ground-colour uniform deep brown; the spots 

 smaller. 



Hah. U.S.A., California coast-region. 



1477. Halisidota ingens. (Plate XL. fig. 12.) 



Halisidota ingens, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 39 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 209. 

 Halisidota scapularis, Stretch, Ent. Am. i. p. 106 (1885) : Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 209. 



Head, tegulae, and patagia white ; palpi and frons brown ; antennae 

 fulvous ; tegulge with brown marks in front, patagia with brown 

 band in front and small spot at middle ; thorax orange and brown ; 

 pectus and legs white, the latter banded with brown ; abdomen 

 orange-yellow above, white below, with sublateral and ventral series 

 of brown spots. Pore wing dark brown : some white points at base 

 and a short orange and white fascia on iuner margin ; four yellowish- 

 white spots on costa ; two conjoined white antemedial spots below 

 the cell, with a spot beyond them in cell and another below it ; a 

 somewhat quadrate spot in end of cell, a point above base of vein 2 

 and spot below it ; oblique postmedial and siibterminal series of 

 spots, the former with the spots above veins 4 and 5 wanting or 

 replaced by points ; a terminal series of spots. Hind wing white, 

 the inner area yellowish ; some subapical spots and some on costal 

 area on underside var^dng much in extent. 



Hah. U.S.A., Rocky Mts., Colorado, 1 c?, N. Mexico. Exp.^ 

 S 54, $ 62 millim. 



*1478. Halisidota alternata. 



Euhalisidota alternata, Grote, Proc. Eiit. Soc. Philad. vi. p. 318, pi. 5. f. 10 



(1867) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 209. 

 Phaqo'ptera alhiguttata, Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 99 (1870) ; Druce, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. 1. p. 93, pi. 9. f. 27 (1884) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 209. 



(5 . Head and thorax black and white evenly mixed ; antennae 

 fulvous ; legs white, banded with black, the femora orange on inner 

 side ; abdomen ochreous, sufi'used with fuscous, especially towards 

 base of dorsum and on underside. Fore wing black, irrorated with 

 white ; some white marks at base ; an antemedial series of three 

 spots with a spot just beyond them in cell ; a medial series of four 

 spots with some marks beyond it in cell and towards costa, followed 

 by another series of five spots ; two discoidal points ; a postmedial 

 series of irregular spots, those above veins 4 and 5 smaller and dis- 

 placed outwards ; a subterminal series of spots and a terminal series 

 of smaller spots. Hind wing white tinged with fuscous, especially 

 on inner area ; a discoidal spot and more or less developed patch at 

 apex ; a spur from subcostal nervure before vein 8. 



