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BEUTENMULLER, MONOGRAPH OF THE SESIID^E. 



inner margin, especially at the base of the wing, and a little red along the costa outwardly. Wings 

 beneath washed with red. 



Expanse : Male, 21 mm.; female, 18 mm. 



Habitat. — United States. 



Types : Male and female, British Museum. One female (cotype), Coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



The definite locality for the species is not known, nor is anything known of 

 its life-history. 



Gaea solituda (Hy. Edw.). 



Plate XXIX, Fig. 6, Male. 



Larunda solituda Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. I, 1881, p. 182; Grote, New Check List N. 

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

 Gaea solituda Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VIII, 1896, p. 115. 



Male. — Head and thorax brownish, the latter with a yellow stripe on each side ; collar, face, 

 and palpi dull yellow. Antennae dull brown at the base and apex, orange in the middle. Fore and 

 middle legs yellow and orange. Hind legs orange, with a broad yellow band on the tibiae. Ab- 

 domen brownish with six broad pale yellow orange bands ; the fourth is carried on beneath the 

 abdomen. Anal tuft black, yellow in the centre. Fore wings opaque, dark brown, with a red and 

 yellow shade from the base along the internal margin, a similar streak of the same color in the cell, 

 interrupted by the discal mark, and continued as rays between the veins to almost the outer margin. 

 Hind wings transparent basally, beyond which the wing is broadly yellow and orange with the veins 

 brown. Fringes of both wings brown. Wings beneath suffused with yellow and orange red between 

 the brown veins, and is much more brilliant than above. 



Female. — Similar to the male. 



Expanse : Male, 28 mm.; female 32 mm. 



Habitat. — Texas and Kansas. 



Types : Coll. Hy. Edwards, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, and B. Neumoegen, Brooklyn Inst. Art. & Sci. 



May be easily known by the opaque brown wings with orange and yellow 

 rays and streaks. Earlier stages unknown. 



Euhagena Hy. Edwards. 



Fig. 10. 

 Euhagena Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. I, 1881, p. 181. 



Fie:. 10. Venation, Head, and Hind Leg of Euha 



%ena nebraskos. 



