494 ARCTTAD^. 



Ab. 1. Carolina. Fore wing with bands from costal fascia and the 

 oblique fascia from termen to lower angle of cell absent or partially 

 aborted. 



Ab. 2. conscita. The whole of the black-brown markings aborted ; 

 fore wing with the costal edge fulvous. 



Hah. U.S.A., S. Atlantic States to Texas, Grote & Vigors Coll., 

 7 c? , 2 2 , type conscita. Eocp. 52 millim. 



2101. Haploa lecontei. 



Callhnorpha lecovtei, Guer. Icon. E. Anim., Ins. p. 517, pi. 88. f. 4 (1829) ; 



Stretch. Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. pp. 62, 236, pL 2. ff. 20, 21 & pi. 9. if. 13, 



14 ; Street. Proc. Davenport Soc. ii. p. 275, pi. 4. ff. 5, 7 ; Lyman, Can. 



Ent. xix. p 182. ff. 1, 2 ; Sinith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 348, pi. 14. 



ff. 12-16 ; Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 252. 

 Callimorpha militaru, Harr. Eep. Ins. Mass. p. 243 (1841); Smith, Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. X. p. 345, pi. 14. ff. 3-5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 253. 

 Hypercompa confinis, Wlk. iii. p. 651 (1853) ; Lyman, Can. Ent. xix. p. 183, 



f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 253. 

 Callimorpha leucomelas, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 431 (1858). 



Head and tegulae orange ; palpi at tips and autennge black-brown ; 

 tegulee often with black-brown spots ; thorax white, with black- 

 brown stripes on shoulders and vertex ; pectus white ; legs tinged 

 with orange, the fore and mid legs striped with black-brown ; 

 abdomen white, often with dorsal black-broAvn stripe. Fore wing 

 white; a black-brown costal fascia narrowing to a point before 

 apex ; a fascia on inner margin, narrowing to a point near base ; 

 an antemedial band oblique from costal fascia to submedian fold 

 where it is angled ; a nearly erect discoidal band from costal fascia 

 to the fascia on inner margin, where it is joined by an oblique 

 fascia from termen below apex ; a terminal band often ending in a 

 point above tornus. Hind wing pure white. 



Ab. 1. militaris. Fore wing with the oblique band from below 

 apex interrupted towards termen and between veins 3, 4. 



Ab. 2. confinis. Fore wing with the oblique band complete, the 

 other baods aborted. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing white with the costal edge ochreous. 



Hah. Canada, Orella (Bush), 2 $ ; U.S.A., Atlantic States, 3 d, 

 2 5 {Doubleday) , type confinis, Ohio {Drury), 1 $ , Massachusetts, 

 Beverly, 1 ^ . Eap. 50 millim. 



Egg. Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 59 (1895). 



Very pale yellow, scarcely shining ; reticulations small, close, 

 well-marked, rounded ; diam. "7 mm. 



2102. Haploa contigua. 



Hypercompa contigtia, Wlk. iii. 651 (1855) ; Lyman, Can. Ent. xix. p. 184, 

 f. 10; Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 346, pi. 14. f. 6; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 252. 



Head and tegulae orange; palpi except at base and antenn86 

 black; tegulae "U'ith black s^jots ; thorax white, with black stripes 

 on shoulders and vertex ; fore legs orange striped with black ; mid 



