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2004. Calidota strigosa. (Plate L. fig. 10.) 



SycJiesia strigosa, Wlk. iii. 7;36 (1855); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 202. 

 Halisidota taqueata, H. Edw. Ent. Am. ii. p. 166 (1887); Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 202. 

 Halisidota cubensis, Grote, Proc. Eat. Soc. Philad. v. p. 243 (1887) ; Kirby, 



Oat. Het. p. 202. 



Head and thorax black-brown ; shaft of antennae, palpi in front, 

 frons at sides and above, cheeks, shoulders, margins of tegulse and 

 patagia, and a streak on last pinkish-white ; legs streaked with 

 crimson, white, and fuscous ; abdomen crimson, with dorsal, lateral 

 and sublateral series of black spots, the ventral surface white, paired 

 ventral series of black points. Fore wing whitish, with diffused 

 brown streaks on the veins and in interspaces, the latter expanding 

 into spots before termen ; ill-defined dark spots in middle and end 

 of cell ; some pink at base of inner margin, with traces of the 

 white antemedial line beyond it on inner area; the postmedial 

 whitish line ill-defined, angled beyond cell, then oblique to middle 

 of inner margin. Hind wing semihy aline, the terminal area and 

 the veins towards termen suffused with brownish. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Florida ; Haiti (Ttveedie), 2 cJ , 2 $ , type ; 

 Cuba ; St. Croix. E.v2J. 6 50, $ 54 millim. 



Subsp. 1. The black markings more prominent ; abdomen with 

 the terminal half blackish below, with white line just beyond 

 middle followed by short sublateral lines. — Jamaica {Martin)^ 1 S • 

 Larva. Dyar, P. U.S. Nat. Mas. 1900, p. 268. 



Stage 1. Head round, slightly bilobed ; pale brown, shining, the 

 mouth blackish ; body ochreous, orange-brown at incisures ; a broad 

 white dorsal stripe on somites 4-9 ; subdorsal brown stripes, occu- 

 pying the whole dorsum on somite 10 ; somites 2, 3 pinkish 

 dorsally ; no cervical shield or anal plate ; setae in groups of five 

 subdorsally on somite 1 ; tubercles colourless, i.-iii. of somite 4 

 black, iii.-vi. of somites 4-10 dusky; on thorax i. a -}- i. 5 -f ii. a 

 separate, ii. h weak, posterior ; vi. 2-haired ; iii., v. absent ; on 

 abdomen iv. behind spiracle, vi. present, elongate, without hairs ; 

 hairs black, spinulose ; i. 6 of somites 2, 3, iii. of 11, and the sub- 

 ventral ones white. A very young larva was whitish lead-colour 

 dorsally on somites 5-9, orange at extremities, the tubercles all 

 dusky. 



Stage 2. Somite 1 retracted, with lateral warts only ; somites 

 2, 3 large, with long hair overhanging the head ; two warts above 

 the stigmatal wart, the upper larger ; abdomen with warts i.-vi. 

 moderate, iv. behind stigmata; somites 1-3 and 11, 12 orange; 

 4-10 dorsally and subventrally whitish ; thoracic and anal feet 

 orange-tinged, abdominal feet pale ; warts black ; hair black 

 dorsally, white subventrally; later all vinous except somite 11, the 

 white stripe reduced to dots. 



Stage 3. Head orange testaceous ; jaws brown ; dorsally dark 

 vinous, ventral surface pale ; somite 1 dorsally luteous, 2 dark 

 orange-red, 5-9 white to wart ii., 11 orange, 12 paler with purplish 



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