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HALISIDOTA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
bands are so much expanded that there remain only very narrow spaces between, which are besides of a brownish 
colour in the costal area and bordered there with a much thicker black colour than in the tessellaris of the 
United States. This form is described according to specimens from Orizaba, in which the space between the 
median bands is narrowed to a dot at the proximal margin, the thorax exhibiting no green colour, which is 
not the case in specimens from the neighbourhood of the city of Mexico, but which seems to us not to be sufficient 
to establish a new name, particularly since the width of the bands of the forewings varies very much individually, 
karri xii. and may even differ on the two surfaces of one specimen. — The name for the form harrisii Pack, is, as Holland 
already states, neither sufficiently founded, since it only refers to a variation of the larva (the anterior pencil 
being white instead of black). — Larva ochreous with yolk-coloured dense tufts on the sides and above, which 
are quill-like closed up on the dorsum. On the 3rd ring there are 4 long pencils pointing forward, on the 12th 
ring two pointing backward, partly accompanied by long yellow bristles; in the larval aberration of harrisii 
the pencils are, as mentioned above, white instead of black. It lives on different foliage-trees, especially on 
acorns, beeches etc., and turns in a web mixed with larval hair into a sepia-brown pupa yielding the imago 
after 3 or 4 weeks. The butterflies are mostly not rare and like to come to the lantern. 
cinctipes. H. cinctipes Grt. (59 c). This species constantly differs from tessellaris only by the nomenclaturally 
used black rings on the tibial ends and foot-joints exhibited in the type, and perhaps the generally more brownish 
colouring, as v eil as the deep orange often warming into reddish of the abdominal dorsum. In various aberrations 
davisii. the species is distributed from Mexico to the south as far as South Argentina and is even to the south of Buenos 
Ayres not rare. —- To the north it extends as far as Arizona, from where the ab. davisii Ediv. (59 c) originates, 
distinguished by nearly all the dark bands being extinct, except the basal and cellend-band of the forewing, 
insularis. and which may be a distinct species, occurring, however, also in other districts. — Another form is insularis 
Bothsch. (59 c) from Santa Lucia where, on the contrary, the transverse bands of the forewings are particularly 
lucia. dark and prominent, like the costal margin and proximal margin, — In ab. lucia Strd. (— ab. 3 Hmps.) from 
tumosa. the same place the dark median band is connected yet with the forked band by a dark spot. — In ab. fumosa Schs. 
which may sometimes occur among typical specimens, the colouring is darker, particularly the hindwings are 
ala. tinted brownish. — In ab. ata Strd. (ab. 1 Hmps.) the subterminal band is complete and sometimes connected 
meta. with the marginal band. — ab. meta Strd. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) shows the subterminal band twice interrupted. 
meridensis. _ These aberrations are neither bound to a certain locality. — The name meridensis Bothsch. (59 c), however, 
refers to a larger form with dark, complete and distinct bands, originating from Merida in Venezuela, from 
tucumana. where, however, also normal though somewhat large cinctipes are before me. — tucumana Bothsch. (59 d) is 
quite a similar, likewise dark-banded, though somewhat smaller form from Tucuman in North West Argentina. 
caripator Dyar is presumably only an individual aberration from Mexico. — Larva sometimes lighter sometimes 
darker yellowish-brown, the tufty dorsal hair combed up to a dorsal quill, sometimes lighter yellowish-brown, 
sometimes chocolate-coloured; the pencils at the anterior and posterior ends long, whitish, head red-brown; 
it lives on Hibiscus, Coc-coloba floridana, unifera, and other plants and changes into an oviform, solid cocoon. 
The butterfly is common in many districts, especially in the south. 
oslari. H. oslari Bothsch. (59 d) is allied to tessellaris, but still paler, and in the distal part of the wing all 
the band-markings are blurred. Colorado. 
sehausi. H. schausi Bothsch. (59 d) greatly resembles cinctipes, but it is easily recognizable by the uninter¬ 
rupted submarginal band, the paler total colouring, particularly also on the body; the hindwings are diaphanous 
whitish, with a yellow tinge at the proximal margin and border. From Mexico through Central America to 
pallida. Colombia. — pallida Bothsch. (59 d) shows a clear unmarked area from the subbasal region almost to the middle 
of the wing, and the band through the middle of the wing is uncolourecl except a small ochreous-yellow costal 
Irardlknsis. spot. From Mexico to Callao in Peru. — braziliensis Bothsch. (= ruscheweyhi Dyar) shows, like oslari (59 d), 
in the distal part of the forewing the borders of the transverse bands quite blurred, but the costal and proximal 
margins are of a bright ochreous-yellow colour; South Brazil and Argentina. 
steinbachi. H. steinbachi Bothsch. (59 d) is easily distinguished from the preceding by the much darker brown 
tinge of the forewings, particularly the transverse bands and the basal part being dark brown. Collected by 
Giacomelli in La Rioja in North West Argentina. 
inierlineata. H. interlineata Wkr. (= jucunda H.-Schaff.) (59 e) has the bases of the wings and the spot around 
and above the cell-end conspicuously dark brown, the subterminal transverse band often being entirely absent ; 
intensa. Mexico, Central America and Peru. — In intensa Bothsch. (59 e), a much larger form from Costa Rica and 
Venezuela, which we figure from the Volcano Irazu, but which is before us also from Bolivia, this subterminal 
intermediate band is still present, but sometimes extremely thin. 
underwoodi. H. underwoodi Bothsch. (59 e), in contrast with interlineata, has a distinct, dark submarginal band; 
the costal spots are yellowish-red narrowly bordered with black, and the median band is so broad that it almost 
or actually touches the cell-end spot below the costa; besides the abdomen beneath is spotted black. Mexico, 
