1910 catalogue of 



Halesidota Edwardsii. 

 Edwardsii, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. 129. 

 San Francisco. 



Halesidota argent . 

 argentata, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. ]'2'J. 

 Gulf of Georgia, California. 



Halesidota GRATA. 



Mas. Fusca ; caput Jlavum; palpi fusci, tubtus rufesaentet . 

 tenna> pectinatce; thor ix U gulii anticis Jlavi 

 tegulis posticii flavo late marginatu ; a us apice- 



que ochract /v. / atcia tubapicali nigra inter* vitta 



postica, fasctit tribu$ y tlriga pottica, striga antica stri^isque 

 duabus exterioribus lanceolatu flavin i.jut- 



tata, 3a futco maculata ; poaticai jlavte, macuUt duabus elan' 

 gatis margineque lalofuscu. 



Male. Brown. Head yellow. Palpi brown, pubescent, very 

 stout, reddish beneath, obliquely ascending, not rising .so high as 

 the vertex; third joint extremely small. Antenna? moderately pec- 

 tinated. Fore teguhe of the thorax yt How. brown-bordered ; hind 

 tegulap broadly bordered with yellow on tbe outer side. Pectus 

 reddish. Abdomen ochraceous, extending somewhat beyond the 

 hind wings, brown above, except near the tip: a black subapical 

 band, which is interrupted on each side: under side with two rows 

 of black spots. Fore wings with a yellow stripe along the interior 

 border and with three oblique yellow bands ; first band dilated and 

 emitting a streak to the second near the interior border : second con- 

 taining a brown dot, where it is joined by a broad oppositely oblique 

 streak, emitting two lanceolate streaks to the third band, which is 

 marginal aud contains a row of elongated brown spots, of which the 

 largest is costal; exterior border convex, very oblique. Hind wings 

 yellow, with a broad brown marginal band, and with two brown 

 elongated spots, which are more concise on the underside. Length 

 of the body 8 lines; of the wings 23 lines. 



Bogota. In Mr. Birchall's collection. 



