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MEMOIRS OF THE I^ATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
Pupa, — Figured by Abbot. Doubleday^s figure is a copy of Abbot’s. 
Food plant. — Various species of oak. Quercus nujra (Abbot MS,). 
Habits, — In Texas the moth was collected by Belfrage, April 21 and 29, and July 11, showing, 
that in that State it is double-brooded. 
Geo(/raphival distribution. — H. astarte appears to be confined to the Southern States, and 
not to extend so far north as H, obliqua with its varieties. It is properly a member of the 
Austroriparian subproviiice. 
St. Johns Bluff, Fla. (Doubleday); Florida (Thaxter ex Grote); Bosque County, Tex. (Boll, 
Belfrage, IT. S. Nat. Mus.); Georgia, Florida, Texas (G. S. Nat. Mus.); Georgia (Abbot, MS.); 
Florida (French). 
Heterocampa lunata Edwards. 
(PI. V, tig. 6, ^.) 
Heterocampa lunata (H. Edwards), Pnpilio, iv, p. 61, March, 1884. 
Sjaiith, List Lep. Bor. Anier., p. 30, 1891. 
Kirhy, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 563, 1892. 
Lophodonia plumosa H. Edwards, Ent. Amer., ii, p. 14, April, 1886. 
Smith, List Lep, Bor. Amer., p. 30, 1891. 
Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 563, 1892. 
Heterocampa lunata Neum. and Dyar, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xxi, p. 205, 1894; Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., ii, p. 117,. 
Sept., 1895. 
Moth. — Two $ . On examining the type (a $ from Colorado) of this species in the Edwards 
collection in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, I find that it should be 
referred to the genus Heterocampa, and that its ]>osition in that genus is near H. hiundata. The 
antenme are very plumose, the pectinations being somewhat longer than usual; the tip is simple, 
as usual in the genus. The palpi are as usual ascending, larger and rather broad, more so than 
usual, projecting well in front of the head; the third joint is concealed by the hairs of the second. 
The apex of the fore wings is considerably produced; the outer edge of the wing long and 
oblicpie. Tlie shape of the hind wings, of the abdomen, and of the tufts on the thorax are as 
usual in Heterocampa. 
Specific characters. — Head and body brownish granite gray, the tint peculiar, approaching 
that of H. manteo^ but with more reddish brown scales. Paliii grayish, with a distinct black line- 
along the upper edge. The markings of the fore wings are much as in H. blundaia. 
On the basal third of the fore wing is a faint zigzag line formed of four rather sharp scallops, 
the largest scallop with a small narrow one above situated both in the submedian interspace;, 
the last scallop not directed outward, as in H. bhuidaia. The linear discal spot is small, black- 
brown, but distinct, though only half as large as in H. hiundata. The extradiscal line is obsolete. 
The outer or submarginal series of sublimate brown spots is much as in H, hiundata, the spots 
becoming linear in front of the cubital vein. The fringe and the brown line at its base are much, 
as in H. hiundata. 
Hind wings whitish, clouded on the costal margin; the fringe long, checkered, but not 
clouded on the internal angle of the wing. 
Expanse of wings, ^ 43 nun.; length of body, 3 20 mm. 
On comparing Edwards’s types of his lunata in Mr. Neumoegen’s collection with his type of' 
j)lumosa in the American Museum of Natural History, both Dr. Dyar and myself find that they 
are the same species. 
Neumoegen and Dyar (Revision, etc.) regard Druce’s H. dardania as a synonym of this.-, 
species. 
Geographical distribution. — A member of the Oampestrian subprovince. Colorado (Bruce,. 
U, S. National Museum and Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York); Arizona (Morrison, ColL. 
Neumoegen); Colorado, Arizona (French); Fort Collins, Colo. (Baker); Mexico. (Druce). 
