BEUTENMULLER, MONOGRAPH OF THE SESIID^E. 



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R 6 stalked. Hind wings subtriangular, inner margin very long and oblique ; discocellulars very 

 oblique; vein Cu 3 from cell; M 3 and Cuj from angle of cell. Tongue absent. Abdomen sub- 

 cylindrical, anal tuft straight, bunch-like. 

 Type : Larunda solituda Hy. Edwards. 



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Fig. 9. Head, Hind Leg, and Venation of Gaea emphytiformis. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Fore wings opaque, streaked with red. 



Abdomen banded with yellow , . . . . solituda. 



Abdomen partly banded with yellow . . emphytiformis. 



Gaea emphytiformis (Walker}. 



Plate XXXI, Fig. 31, Female. 



^Egeria emphytiformis Walker, Cat. Lepid. Brit. Mus. Pt. VIII, 1856, p. 43 ; Butler, Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist. Vol. XIV, 1874, p. 408 ; Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. I, 1881, p. 206. 

 Trochilium emphytiformis Morris, Synop. Lepid. N. Am. 1862, p. 438. 

 Sesia emphytiformis Botsduval, Suites a Buffon, Nat. Hist. Lep. Het. I, 1874, p. 438. 

 Bembecia emphytiformis Grote, New Check List N. Am. Moths, 1882, p. 11 ; Beutenmuller, Bull. 



Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. V, 1893, p. 23. 

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



Male. — Head whitish in front, palpi orange, collar dull orange, thorax purplish brown with a 

 yellowish spot at the extreme base of the fore wings and on the scutellum. Abdomen blackish 

 brown, with a yellow band on each segment, the one on the third segment encircling the abdomen. 

 Anal tuft black with a few yellow hairs. Legs red, partly yellow ; femora black ; tibiae with black 

 stripes. Wings purplish cupreous. Fore wings yellow and partly red in the disc, which is inter- 

 rupted by the discal mark. Hind wings slightly streaked with red, limpid towards the base. 



Female. — Head dirty white in front, palpi and collar orange. Antennae dull orange, blackish 

 towards the tip. Abdomen with a yellow band on the posterior edge of the second, fourth, and 

 sixth segments, and a trace of a band on the fifth segment. The one on the fourth segment 

 encircles the abdomen. Anal tuft orange, black beneath and at the extreme sides. Legs orange, 

 femora blackish. Fore wings purplish brown with red dash in the cell and a few streaks of the same 

 color beyond the discal mark, between the veins. A short red dash is also situated at the base on 

 the inner margin. Hind wings purplish brown, transparent basally at the middle, red along the 



