312 BEUTENMULLER, MONOGRAPH OF THE SESIIDiE. 



Female. — Larger and more robust than the male. The red on the fore wings is more pronounced 

 and a short basal streak of the same color. 



Expanse : Male, 10 mm. ; female, 14 mm. 



Habitat. — Georgia, Alabama (Southern States). 



Type : One female. Coll. E. Graef, Brooklyn Inst. Arts and Sciences. C. minuta, one male. 

 Coll. F. Tepper, Agricul. College Michigan. 



Sesia subaerea {Hy. Edw.). 



Plate XXXII, Fig. 3, Male. 



Pyrrhotcenia subcerea Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. Ill, 1883, p. 156 ; Ent. Amer. Vol. Ill, t888, p. 

 224; Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VIII, 1896, p. 146. 



Male. — Head and thorax deep brown, the latter with a yellow mark posteriorly. Antennae 

 with a pale yellow band before the tip ; palpi yellowish. Abdomen brownish, with yellow scales 

 and traces of bands on the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh segments. Anal tuft mixed with yellow. 

 Fore wings purplish brown sprinkled with yellow scales. Hind wings purplish brown, transparent 

 at the base. All wings sprinkled with yellow beneath. 



Expanse : 14 mm. 



Habitat. — Arizona. 



Type : One male. Coll. B. Neumoegen, Brooklyn Inst. Arts and Sciences. 



Sesia nigra {Beuten^). 



Plate XXXII, Fig. 19, Female. 



Carmenta nigra Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VI, 1894, p. 95 ; ibid. Vol. VIII, 

 1896, p. 147. 



Female. — Head black on top, face dirty white, palpi white, marked with black outside ; collar 

 dirty white in front. Antennae black. Thorax black, patagia slightly tipped with white. Abdomen 

 black with a white band at the posterior part of the second, fourth, and last segments, the one on the 

 fourth broadest and extending around the body. Anal tuft slight, black. Legs black ; anterior 

 coxae marked with white and the hind tibiae with a white band on one side. Fore wings opaque, 

 black, with a white streak in the cell and a few white streaks between the veins on the outer part of 

 wings. Underside yellowish along the costa. Hind wings opaque, black, slightly transparent 

 basally. 



Expanse : 14 mm. 



Habitat. — Colorado, Utah. 



Type : One female. Coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Sesia verecunda {Hy. Edw.). 



Plate XXXII, Fig. 26, Female. 



Algeria verecunda Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. I, 1881, p. 190; Grote, New Check List N. Am. 



Moths, 1882, p. 12 ; Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. IV, 1892, p. 173. 

 Sesia verecunda Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. VIII, 1896, p. 142. 



Female. — Head on top, with dirty yellowish hairs, face white, collar white, antennae black, yel- 

 lowish beneath, palpi white. Thorax black, with a dirty yellow line on each side and a white patch 



