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Nothing is known regarding the earlier stages of this species. It is subject 

 to considerable variation ; the fore wings being more or less marked with red. 

 In the type form the legs are black, with yellow bands. The variety montana has 

 yellow legs with black bands and the fore wings more red than pyramidalis. 

 The variety rubescens has the fore wings very heavily marked with red ; the 

 bands on the abdomen and the legs are rich golden yellow. The variety colora- 

 densis is entirely black without any markings whatever. The moths make their 

 appearance from June until about the middle of August. 



Albuna fraxini (Hy. Edw.). 



Plate XXX, Fig. 12, Male. 



Carmenta fraxini Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. I, 1881, p. 185 ; Grote, New Check List N. Am. 



Moths, 1882, p. 12 ; Packard, 5th Rep. U. S. Ent. Com. 1890, p. 542. 

 Harmonia morrisonii Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. II, 1882, p. 54 ; Grote, New Check List N. Am. 



Moths, 1882, p. 12 ; Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. IV, 1892, p. 171. 

 Par harmonia fraxini Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VI, 1894, p. 89 ; ibid. Vol. 



VIII, 1896, p. 124. 



Male. — Head black. Antennae black with a long yellowish white patch before the tip, underside 

 wholly yellow ; palpi yellow at base, black towards the tip. Thorax bronzy purplish black, with a 

 tuft of sordid white hairs each side at the base. Abdomen wholly bronzy black, as is also the divided 

 anal tuft. Legs black, tarsi dirty yellow ; anterior coxae at base yellow. Fore wings opaque pur- 

 plish black, bronze outwardly ; discal mark red. Underside washed with yellow basally. Hind wings 

 transparent, discal mark and outer border purplish black. 



Female. — Same as the male ; anal tuft straight, slight. 



Expanse : Male and female, 20-25 mm - 



Types: One male ; H. morrisonii, one female. Coll. Hy. Edwards, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Sesia Fabricius. 



Fig. 22. 



Sesia Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 1775, P- 549 ( in P ar <0 ; Hubner, Tentamen, 1806 (?)p. 1 (restrict, sense). 



jEgeria Fabricius, Syst. Glossat. 1807 ; Illiger, Mag. Insect. Vol. VI, 1807, p. 288 (in part). 



Bembecia Hubner, Verz. bekant. Schmett. 1816, p. 128 (in part). 



Synanthedon Hubner, /. c. p. 129. 



Conopia Hubner, /. c. p. 129. 



Setia Meigen, Syst. Beschreib. Europ. Schmett. 1830, p. 119. 



JPyrrhotcenia Grote, Can. Ent. Vol. VII, 1875, p. 174. 



Carmenta Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. I, 1881, p. 184. 



Palpi ascending, reaching the top of the head, with appressed or loose scales or hairs, third joint 

 small, conical. Antennae slightly thickened towards the tip, simple in the female, ciliated or simple 

 in the male. Abdomen slender, anal tuft large, fan-like in the male, brush-like in the female. Legs 

 with tufts at joints, or with short loose hairs. Fore wings with veins R 4 and R 5 stalked. Hind 

 wings with veins M 3 and Cuj stalked. Sc + R. Discocellulars oblique. 



Type : Sphinx tipuliformis Clerck. 



