IIAPLOA. 495 



and hind le^s white ; mid tibia3 with brown stripes ; abdomen wliite, 

 with dorsal black stripe. Fore wing white ; a black fascia on costa 

 narrowing' to a point before apex ; a fascia on inner margin ending 

 in a point near base ; a slightly oblique band from costal fascia to 

 the fascia on inner margin at end of cell, joined at vein 3 by an 

 oblique irregular fascia from terraen below apex ; some black on 

 medial part of termen, connected with the oblique fascia by a streak 

 on vein 5. Hind wing with two small, somewhat obliquely placed, 

 black-brown subterminal spots above and below vein 2. 



Hah. U.S.A., Atlantic States (Douhleday)^ 1 d type, Grote Coll., 

 1 ? . Exp., cS 48, $ 50 miilim. 



2103. Haploa fulvicosta. 



Hf/percompa fulvicosta, Oleni. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phil, p. 536(1861) ; Lyiuan, 



Can. Ent. xix. p. 188, f. 12; Kirby, Cat. Het p. 252. 

 Callimorpha rcversa, Stretch, Ent. Am. i. p. 104 (1885) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 252. 

 Callimorpha snffusa, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 317, pi. 14. If. 7, 



11 (1888); Lyman. Can. Ent. xix. p. 187, f. 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 252. 

 Haploa rcversa, var. ditplioata, Neum. & Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. i. p. 159 



(1893). 

 Haploa triangularis, Smith, Ent. News Philad. x. p. 126 (1899). 



{reversa.) Head and tegulae orange; palpi at tips and antennae black ; 

 tegulae often with black spots ; thorax white, with black stripes on 

 shoulders and vertex; metathorax and legs orange; fore coxa) with 

 black spots ; fore and mid legs striped with black ; abdomen white, 

 orange at base of dorsum, sometimes with dorsal series of black 

 points. Fore wing white ; a black-brown costal fascia ending in a 

 point before apex ; a fascia on inner margin ending in a point near 

 base ; a very oblique band from costal fascia before middle to 

 tornus, sometimes incomplete towards costa, joined by a nearly 

 erect discoidal band from costal fascia and at vein 3 by an oblique 

 fascia from termen below apex, which is connected with the costal 

 fascia by an oblique postmedial bar, and with the narrow terminal 

 band by more or less complete streaks on veins 3, 4, 5. Hind wing 

 white, rarely with black-brown subterminal spot below vein 2. 



Ab. 1. fulvicosta— duplicata. The dark markings almost or quite 

 obsolete ; ground-colour sometimes pale buff. 



Hah. U.S.A., S. States, N. Jersey, Kansas, Texas, Grote Coll., 

 7 c? , 10 2 . Exp. 50 miilim. 



Egg. Marlett, Tr. Kansas Ac. xi. p. 113 ; Dyar, Ent. News, 1896, p 219- 

 id. Can. Ent. 1897, p. 97. ^ 



Hemispherical, scarcely conoidal, flattened at base ; smooth, 

 shining, rather dark yellow ; reticulations obscure, visible in 

 reflected light, narrow, linear, irregularly hexagonal; diam'6 miilim. 



Larva. Stage 1. Head high, bilobed, the lobes blackish brown, 

 clypeus pale, mouth brown ; body pale yellowish ; tubercles dusky 

 pearly ; hair short, stiff, white ; setae single, no subprimaries. 



Stage 2. Head black, shining ; body whitish ; warts small, edged 

 with brown; the shields shining black ; hair not numerous, black, 

 pale on ventral surface. 



