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posterior transverse line somewhat dentate with dots on the veins behind it; the light undulate line is very 
faint; of the maculae there is only the somewhat darker, indistinct reniform macula in a light ring. Hindwing 
very light reddish-yellow, strewn with brown at the margin. From California. 
41. Genus: Si«Ieri«Iis Hbn. 
Chiefly distinguished from the preceding genus by a loose, not keeled tuft on the prothorax. Comp. 
Vol. Ill, p. 96, and Vol. XI, p. 92. 
S. rosea Harv. (23 k) has light cinnamon-red forewings strewn with a darker colour, with a darkened rosea. 
marginal area, with single transverse lines, the posterior line dentate; the large coniform macula and the two 
upper ones surrounded with a dark red, the reniform macula grey, below pupilled dark; the grey undulate 
line is proximally bordered with deep red. Hindwing whitish with a reddish-yellow marginal area. Canada 
and United States to Colorado. 
S. normaili Grt. (23 k). Forewing brownish-red, strewn with black, the proximal and postmedian normani. 
areas greyer, striated with a brownish red; the transverse lines are on the averted sides bordered with light 
grey, the large maculae in grey rings, the reniform macula below pupilled darker. Hindwing diaphanous white, 
at the margin and on the veins smoked. Canada and United States to New York. 
S. congermana Morr. (23 1) is on the forewing purple brownish-red with dark veins and yellowish congerma- 
anterior transverse lines, the posterior line marked by white dots on the veins; the maculae blackish strewn 
with white and in whitish rings; behind the yellowish dentate undulate line the marginal area is lighter yellowish. 
Hindwing smoke-coloured grey, at the margin darker with red fringes. North-Eastern and Central States. 
S. rubefacta Morr. (= vindemialis Grt.) (23 k) is somewhat larger than the similar preceding species, rubefacta. 
of a deeper purple red, dusted with a blackish brown, in the costal-marginal area strewn with whitish, the 
transverse lines and the coniform macula quite indistinct or absent; the maculae are surrounded with a quite 
indistinctly darker colour and in the centre strewn with whitish-grey; before the undulate line which is marked 
by whitish scales there is brownish shading. The yellowish-white hindwing is dusted with brown, particularly 
towards the margin, with light fringes. Canada to New York. — The larva is light brown, watered with 
blackish, with lighter dorsal and lateral lines. 
42. Genus: Cleramica Gn. 
Likewise very closely allied to the preceding genera and predominantly separated by the entirely 
tuftless thorax. Tibiae outside hairy, the abdomen with a basal tuft exhibits lateral hair towards the end. 
Only one species: 
C, picta Harr. ( = exusta Gn., contraria Wkr.) (23 1) has purple red forewings dusted with brown, the picla. 
costal halves strewn with white; no transverse lines except a whitish undulate line, the maculae in whitish 
rings, the reniform macula with a darker filling and proximally produced on the median, behind it a faded, 
yellowish strigiform spot. Hindwing white with brownish veins. Canada to Colorado. — The larva is black 
with broad yellow subdorsal stripes and lateral bands, on the dorsum strewn with yellow, and with fine, 
yellow, transverse lateral stripes, feet and vent rum dark red. 
43. Genus: Xasitliopastis Hbn. 
Proboscis stunted, the short palpi long-haired; head and thorax with very long rough hair and scales, 
abdomen tuftless, laterally with long hair. But one very conspicuous species. 
X. timais Cr. (23 k). Body black, forewing pink, spotted black and scaled orange-yellow round the timais. 
maculae, with alternately yellow and black antemarginal spots. Hindwing blackish. From Maine and Florida 
through the whole of Mexico and Central America to Brazil and Argentina and in the West Indies. The 
larva exhibits such remarkable local differences that its forms have even been denominated. The primary 
form which seems to prove that it originates from the Antilles, exhibits large, conical, black tubercles: f. 
antiilium Dyar , it is red-brown with small yellow spots, the head, first and last rings as well as the forelegs antiilium. 
being orange. — From there the species presumably proceeded to Guiana: amaryllidis Sepp with rudimentary amaryllidis. 
tubercles as in the other continental forms, the brown body covered with many roundish yellow spots. — 
Farther to the north in Panama the larva to our surprise exhibits again large tubercles, each with one hair, 
and the yellow spots of the body form more or less distinct interrupted longitudinal lines on the dorsum and 
subdorsally, on each ring 4 transverse rows: molinoi Dyar. — In Mexico we find the form moctezuma Dyar molinoi. 
without distinct tubercles, the yellow spots more or less united into longitudinal bands. Still farther to the niodezuyia. 
north in Florida the bands are still broader and more coherent: f. regnatrix Grt. where particularly one lateral regnatrix. 
spot is united with that of the next ring, which is not the case in the Mexican form. 
