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2 . Hind wing with fuscous patches in cell and subterminal series 

 of irregular spots. 



Hab. Cuba; Mexico, Jalapa, Las Vegas, Coll. Schaus; Honduras. 

 Esc2^., (^ 48, 2 60 millim. 



1479. Halisidota caryae, 



Lophocampa carya, Harr. Ins. Mass. p. 258 (1841); Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. 



N. Am. p. 140, pi. 6. f. 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 208. 

 Halisidota atmulifascia, Wlk. iii. 734 (1855). 

 Phegoptera porphyrea, Herr.-SchafF. Aussereui-. Schmett. f. 283 (1865). 



Yellow ; 2nd joint of palpi above, a band across frons, and an- 

 tennae rufous ; patagia edged with rufous ; tibiae and tarsi banded 

 with rufous. Fore wing irrorated and suffused with rufous ; the 

 veins streaked with rufous ; a rufous line from base of costa running 

 obliquely to vein 1, then up to middle of submedian interspace and 

 to inner margin before middle, enclosing a clear yellow patch ; an 

 oblique series of antemedial yellow spots from costa to below median 

 nervure, with a point below them and one on median nervure nearer 

 the base ; an oblique rufous line from costa before middle, towards 

 which it expands, along vein 2 to termen, with three spots on its 

 outer edge between costa and cell ; two white spots in end of cell 

 and two points on discocellulars; oblique postmedial and subterminal 

 series of irregular spots, the former series with the spot beyond the 

 cell large, the latter with the spot above vein 5 displaced inwards ; 

 an oblique streak from costa along vein 6 to termen ; termen and 

 inner margin brown ; some white points on cilia. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline yellow, tinged with orange on inner area ; veins 4, 5 from 

 cell, 8 a spur. 



Hah, U.S.A. (Douhleday), type annuUfascia, Grote & Zeller Colls. 

 Bay,, c? 48, 2 58 millim. 



Subsp. 1. propinqtca, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 76 (1884) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. i. p. 94, ii. p. 374 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 208. 



Antennae darker ; fore wing more irrorated and less suffused with 

 rufous, the streaks from costa along veins 2 and 6 very prominent. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (TrujiUo) ; Guatemala {Rodriguez, 

 Champion)', Costa Rica {Underivood)^ Godman-Salvin Coll. 



Larva. O. G. Soule, Psyche, vi. p. 158. 



Mature : Head, legs, and ventral surface black ; somites greenish 

 white, speckled with black, the 2nd and 3rd somites with two sub- 

 dorsal black warts and one on stigmatic line ; 4th to 10th somites 

 with pencils of long black hair meeting dorsally and the 4th and 

 10th somites with lateral pencils ; some long hair overhanging head 

 and some long white hair on sides. Food-plant, Hickory. 



Cocoon formed by a slight silken net with the long hairs laid on 

 it longitudinally and the short hair pushed through it and erect. 



Subsp. 2. mixta, Neum. Papilio, ii. p. 133 (1882). 



Pore wing with the spots yellowish, concolorous, defined by 



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