BEUTENMULLER, MONOGRAPH OF THE SESIID^E. 3°5 



Female. — Similar to the male, but the fore wings are usually a little more opaque or entirely so, 

 lacking the orange on the outer part of the wing. Abdomen with three orange bands, one on the 

 second, fourth, and last segments. Anal tuft wholly black. 



Expanse : Male and female, 18-22 mm. 



Habitat. — Florida, Texas. 



Types : Two males. Coll. B. Neumoegen, Brooklyn Inst. Arts and Sciences ; Pyrrhotcenia 

 wittfeldii, one male, and two females. Coll. Hy. Edwards, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



May be readily known by the almost opaque fore wings and the orange 

 bands on the abdomen. Life-history not known. 



Sesia seminole Beuten. 



Plate XXXIII, Fig. 18, Male, and Fig. 20, Female. 



Sesia seminole Beutenmuller, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Vol. VII, 1899, p. 255. 



Male. — Head and antennae brown black ; palpi and collar in front pale orange. Thorax brown 

 black, with a narrow orange line on the patagia and a transverse line of the same color posteriorly. 

 Abdomen brown black, with a somewhat metallic reflection in certain light ; at the posterior end of 

 the second, fourth, and last segments is a narrow orange yellow band. Anal tuft black, slightly 

 orange at the middle beneath. Middle and hind femora blackish, tibiae violet, with an orange band 

 at the middle. Tarsi orange inside, violaceous outside. Fore wings narrow, transparent area pres- 

 ent but not characteristic ; costal margin brown black, outer part of wing with the veins heavily 

 marked with brown black, with narrow rays of orange between, fringes brown black ; inner margin 

 scaled with orange ; transverse mark conspicuous, orange red, transparent space beyond small and 

 round. Hind wings transparent, a small orange mark at upper end of cell, margin and fringes vio- 

 laceous. Under side of fore wings washed with golden orange. 



Female. — Similar to the male in color and markings of body and legs. Fore wings broader 

 with the outer margin less oblique. Basal transparent area filled with orange, broken by the dark 

 median vein ; outer transparent area filled with orange between the dark veins. The dark parts of 

 the wings have a decided violet reflection, much more so than in the male. Transverse mark 

 orange, marked with black at the inner part. The margin of the hind wing is also violet. 



Expanse : Male, 17 mm. ; female, 15-18 mm. 



Habitat. — Lake Worth, Florida. 



Types : One male and two females. Coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. ; one female. Coll. Mrs. A. T. 

 Slosson. 



A small species with orange bands on the abdomen, somewhat resembling 

 Sesia marica, which is a much larger and broader-winged species. The moths 

 appear in February. 



Sesia marica Beuten. 



Plate XXXIII, Fig. 8, Male. 



Sesia marica Beutenmuller, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Vol. VII, 1899, p. 254. 



Male. — Head black, palpi bright orange ; collar black, edged in front with orange. Antennae 

 black. Thorax black, with a conspicuous orange stripe on each side, on the patagia, meeting a 

 transverse band on the posterior edge. Thorax black beneath with a large orange patch on each 



