HAPLOA. — AXIOrCENA. 497 



Egq. Lyiuan, Can. Ent. xix. p. 186 ; Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 59, & 

 Ent. News, 1896, p. 219. 



Spherical with the base flattened ; smooth, shining, rather dark 

 yellow ; reticulations obscure, narrow, linear, irregular. Diam. 

 •7 millim. 



Larva. Stage 1. Head with the lobes shining black, the clypeus 

 pale, mouth brown ; body yellowish, the cervical shield black, 

 bisected ; warts large, black, each with long seta ; wart vi. wanting, 

 iv. behind spiracle ; leg-plates with long setae. 



Stage 2. Body whitish, with a broad brown dorsal stripe extending 

 to wart iii., but paler on median line ; hair black and white, four 

 or more from each wart ; wart vi. present, elongate. 



Stage 3 (? interp.). An irregular greyish-white broad dorsal line ; 

 a blackish subdorsal stripe between warts ii., iii. ; a broad pale 

 stripe above iv. marked with yellowish above each wart ; a greyish 

 sublateral shade ; warts and feet black ; hair short, stiff, rather 

 sparse. 



Stage 4 (? 3). Body black-brown ; a broad white dorsal line and 

 narrow subdorsal one ; a bright yellow stigmatal line indented by 

 warts iii., iv. ; ventral surface white. 



Stage 5 (? 4). Dorsal line dull white, yellowish between warts ii. ; 

 narrow indistinct pale subdorsal and sublateral lines ; a bright 

 yellow stigmatal line, transversely streaked at fold. 



Stage 6 (interp.). Dorsal and stigmatal lines distinct, yellow, the 

 latter broad and formed by transverse streaks on annulets ; traces 

 of a whitish sublateral stripe ; warts large ; hair short, abundant, 

 bristly, black. 



Stage 7 (interp.). Stigmatal line broken into four dots ; the 

 anterior and posterior transverse and yellow, the second longitu- 

 dinal and white ; a few pale yellow sublateral dots. 



*2105. Haploa vestalis. 



Callimorpha vestalis, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 108 (1864); Xirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 252. 



"White ; head pale yellow ; antennae pale brown ; legs pale 

 orange. Eore wing immaculate or with the costa and termen 

 slightly tinged with fuscous. Hind wing pure white. 



Hab. U.S.A., jS". Atlantic States westward. Exjp. 33-37 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



Genus AXIOPCENA. 



Type. 

 Axiopoena, Menetr. Bull. Sci. Petersb. ix. p. 42 (1842) maura. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with rough hair, the 3rd porrect, moderate ; frons with tuft of hair ; antennae 

 quite simple ; head, thorax, abdomen, and legs smoothly scaled ; tibise with the 

 spurs minute. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above 

 angle ; 6 from upper angle or from areole ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form a long areole ; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 from before middle of cell. 



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