HALI8ID0TA. 165 



vein 2; an obscure oblique brown streak from apex to lower angle 

 of cell ; a series of blackish points on the subterminal lunules and 

 a terminal series. Hind wing with the inner area, slightly, tinged 

 with brown and some obscure spots or marks on termen. 



Hah. Ecuador (Buckley)^ 1 2 I Surinam ; Brazil, Eio Grande 

 do Sul, Sta. Catherina, Rio Janeiro, 1 2 type, Castro Parana, ^ in 

 Coll. Schaus ; Bolivia, Chaco. £xp., d 48, $ 54 millim. 



1508. Halisidota longa. (Plate XLI. fig. 15.) 



Euhaliddota longa, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 213 (1880) ; Kirbj, Cat. Het. 

 p. 209. 



Ochreous ; head and thorax slightly tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing irrorated with groups of fuscous scales, some of them forming 

 traces of dentate postmedial and subterminal lines ; an oblique 

 streak from lower angle of cell followed by a shorter streak, then a 

 point towards apex ; a subterminal series of points. Hind wing 

 yellowish white. 



}lah. U.S.A., Florida, Enterprise, 1 J , 1 $ type. Exp.^ S 50, 

 $ 54 millim. 



1509. Halisidota rhomboidea. 



Bomhyx rkomhoidea, Sepp, Ins, Surinam, ii. pi. 61 (1848) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 211. 

 Halisidota strigulosa, Wlk. iii. 737 (1855) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 



i. p. 93 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 211. 

 Phe(jfoptera mandus, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. i. f. 286 (1855) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 211. 

 Halisidota citrina, Wlk. xxxi. 314 (1S64). 



Orange-yellow to pale ochreous ; palpi tinged with fuscous in. 

 front ; fore femora orange. Fore wing with five very oblique series 

 of rufous-edged spots, elliptical on basal area, lunulate on terminal ; 

 a slight diffused brownish shade at lower angle of cell ; an oblique 

 series of dark points from apex to inner margin before middle and 

 a subterminal series, both placed on outer edge of series of spots. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the inner area yellower ; veins 4, 5 

 usually more or less strongly stalked ; 8 absent, represented by a 

 spur or rarely reaching costa. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa, Cuesta de Misantla (Trujillo) ; Guatemala; 

 Panama ( C^om^^ion), Godman-Salvin Coll.; Ecuador; Bolivia, Chaco 

 {Garlepp\ 1 $ ; Peru, Vilcanota (Garlepp) ; Surinam; Brazil, 

 Para, type strignlosa, S5o Paulo (Jones), Eio Janeiro {BucJcley), 

 Ha^j). 46-54 millim. 



Larva. Black; the sutures of head and intersegmental folds of 

 thoracic somites pale ; the thoracic and terminal somites with long 

 black and white hair projecting forward and backward ; the other 

 somites with short white hair ; the dorsal and lateral area of 

 somites 6-11 pinkish, with dorsal black line. Food-plant, PaspaJuin 

 indicum (Graminaceae). 



