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Costa Rica {Underwood), Godman-Salvin Coll.; Panama, Chiriqui ; 

 Cuba; Haiti (Tweedie); St. Lucia ; Venezuela, 1 $, Merida; 

 Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul ; Peru, Ghanchamayo (J. J. Walker). 

 Exp. 50-62 millim. 



Larva^ Dy.ar, Psyche, vi. p. 550. 



Mature : Head red-brown, paler on sutures, lines above mouth 

 and base of antennoe white ; somites with the hair thick, pale 

 chocolate or grey-brown with whitish tinge at sides, crested and 

 darker along dorsal line ; the skin exposed and orange between 

 somites 3 and 4; the three upper warts on somites 3 and 4 whitish 

 with black patches ; white hair-pencils from 1st and 3rd warts on 

 somite 4 and a few long whitish hairs from the same warts on somite 

 3 ; a white pencil from 3rd wart on somite 12 ; skin red-brown, 

 more or less spotted with black, or all black except the legs ; 

 spiracles white ; somite 2 retracted, its hair bent forward over head ; 

 hairs all finely barbuled; thoracic somites with 4 warts, abdominal 

 with 6, wart 4 being smaller. 



Length 30 millim. Food-plants, Coccoloha jloridana and uvifera. 



Cocoon firm, compact, formed of the larval hairs. 



1498. Halisidota tessellaris. 



Halisidota tessellaris, Abbot & Smith, Lep. Georgia, ii. pi. 75 (1797) ; 



Geyer, Zutr. Ex. Schmett. v. p. 34, ff. 939,940 ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Het. i. p. 92 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 210. 

 Halisidota antiphola, Walsh, Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H. ix. p. 288 (1864\ 

 Halisidota harrisii, Walsh, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 430 (1864)'. 



Fig. 93. — Halisidota tessellaris, (^ . \. 



Pale ochreous ; palpi, antennae, and legs orange ; tarsal joints 

 sometimes slightly ringed with black ; abdomen pale orange fulvous 

 above, whitish below. Fore wing with slight black-edged spot on 

 base of costa, another before middle, and a larger spot below base 

 of cell; a medial band angled outwards on subcostal and median 

 nervures and inwards in cell; a rather V-shaped discoidal mark 

 with spot ajbove it on costa ; a subterminal series of irregular black- 

 edged marks and a terminal irregular band with a black line on its 

 inner edge. Hind wing semihyaline, the inner area clothed with 

 pale orange hair ; veins 4, 5 from cell or stalked, 3 a spur. 



Ab. 1. With the medial band interrupted or absent above median 

 nervure. 



Ab. 2. With the bands darker and brownish, the subterminal 

 baud interrupted in places. 



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