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Larva. Smith, Eep. N. Jersey Exp. Stat. 1895, p. 458; Pack. J.N. Y. Ent. 

 Soc. iii. p. 176 ; Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. v. p. 130. 



Black-brown, with subdorsal pale yellow stripes with deeper yellow 

 spots on them and five black streaks ; tufts of hair brown and white. 

 Food-plants : mulberry, persimmon, willow, and wild cherry. 



*1853. Hyphantria aspersa. (Plate XLVI. fig. 15.) 



Alexidcfi aspersa, Grote, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. viii. p. 46 (1883) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 201. 



cJ. Blackish fuscous ; a scarlet rim behind the eyes ; tarsi with 

 reddish rings; abdomen scarlet above, with dorsal and lateral 

 fuscous spots ; anal tuft with some scarlet medial hairs ; wings 

 semidiaphanous. Fore wing with some obscure clouded blackish 

 marks at base, at end of cell, and on subterminal area ; traces of 

 antemedial, medial, and postmedial bands, the last bent inwards 

 below vein 4 ; the veins with slight interrupted white streaks. 

 Hind wing hardly paler, with slight discoidal spot. Fore tibiai with 

 the claw stout. 



Hab. U.S.A., N". Mexico. Exj^. 36 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 5 from above angle of cell. 



*1854. Hyphantria orizaba. 



Spilosoma orizaba, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 389, pi. 77. f. 4 

 (1897). 



(5 . White ; palpi and lower part of frons black, the former with 

 crimson patch on basal joint; antennae black, the basal joint crimson ; 

 tegulae, patagia, and thorax with black stripes, a broad black stripe 

 on metathorax and first segment of abdomen ; femora crimson, 

 fringed with white hair, tibiae and tarsi crimson and black ; 

 abdomen dorsally crimson from 2nd to terminal segment, with 

 dorsal black stripe, lateral and sublateral series of black spots, the 



Fig. 152. — Hyphantria orizaba, J. \. 



first three segments with ventral crimson bands. Fore wing with 

 black-brown patch at base of costa and subbasal spot below cell ; a 

 broad antemedial band interrupted by white streaks on the veins 

 and in submedian fold, its edges irregular and connected by an 

 elongate spot between veins 2 and 3 with the double oblique 

 postmedial series of irregular spots, and with wedge-shaped spots 

 between veins 3 and 5, forming part of an oblique series increasing 



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