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Leconte's Haploa
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Form dyari Merrick, Plate XVII, Fig. 9, male.
Form militaris Harris, Plate XVII, Figs. 4, 10, male; Fig. 1, female.
Form vestalis Packard, Plate XVII, Fig. 3, male.
This is a protean species, of which a half dozen, or more, forms have been recognized, named, and described. We give in our cut a figure of the wings of a specimen, which agrees in its markings with the specimen figured by Boisduval, the author of the species, in his Plate given in the Regne Animal. Such specimens come in the form of their maculation very near the next species, which has been differentiated by Lyman under the name confusa. Haploa lecontei ranges from New England to Georgia and westward to the Mississippi. It is a very common insect in western Pennsylvania. The caterpillar feeds upon Triosteum perfoliatum, and in localities where this plant is abundant the moths may be found in swarms at the end of May and the beginning of June.