. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. HALISIDOTA. 161 Costa Rica {Underwood), Godman-Salvin Coll.; Panama, Chiriqui ; Cuba; Haiti (Tweedie); St. Lucia ; Venezuela, 1 $, Merida; Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul; Peru, Ghanchamayo (J. J. Walker). Exp. 50-62 millim. Larva^ , Psyche, vi. p. 550. Mature: Head red-brown, paler on sutures, lines above mouth and base of antennoe white; somites with the hair thick, pale chocolate or grey-brown with whitish tinge at sides, crested and darker along dorsal line;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. HALISIDOTA. 161 Costa Rica {Underwood), Godman-Salvin Coll.; Panama, Chiriqui ; Cuba; Haiti (Tweedie); St. Lucia ; Venezuela, 1 $, Merida; Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul; Peru, Ghanchamayo (J. J. Walker). Exp. 50-62 millim. Larva^ , Psyche, vi. p. 550. Mature: Head red-brown, paler on sutures, lines above mouth and base of antennoe white; somites with the hair thick, pale chocolate or grey-brown with whitish tinge at sides, crested and darker along dorsal line; the skin exposed and orange between somites 3 and 4; the three upper warts on somites 3 and 4 whitish with black patches ; white hair-pencils from 1st and 3rd warts on somite 4 and a few long whitish hairs from the same warts on somite 3 ; a white pencil from 3rd wart on somite 12 ; skin red-brown, more or less spotted with black, or all black except the legs ; spiracles white ; somite 2 retracted, its hair bent forward over head ; hairs all finely barbuled; thoracic somites with 4 warts, abdominal with 6, wart 4 being smaller. Length 30 millim. Food-plants, Coccoloha jloridana and uvifera. Cocoon firm, compact, formed of the larval hairs. 1498. Halisidota tessellaris. Halisidota tessellaris, Abbot & Smith, Lep. Georgia, ii. pi. 75 (1797); Geyer, Zutr. Ex. Schmett. v. p. 34, ff. 939,940 ; Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 92 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 210. Halisidota antiphola, Walsh, Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H. ix. p. 288 (1864\ Halisidota harrisii, Walsh, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 430 (1864)'.. Fig. 93.—Halisidota tessellaris, (^. \. Pale ochreous; palpi, antennae, and legs orange ; tarsal joints sometimes slightly ringed with black ; abdomen pale orange fulvous above, whitish below. Fore wing with slight black-edged spot on base of costa, another before middle, and a larger spot below base of cell; a medial band angled outwards on subcostal and median nervures and inwa
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