Haploa clymene (Brown, 1776)

Hampson, G. F. (1901). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 3: pp. 492-493, text-fig. 220.

2099. Haploa clymene.
Phalaena clymene, Brown, Ill. Zool. p. 96, pl. 38 (1776); Kirby, Cat. Het. p.
252.
Bombyx interruptomarginata, Beauv. Ins. Afr. Amer. p. 263, pl. 25. ff. 5, 6
(1824); Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 66, pl. 2. f. 19; Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat.
Mus. x. p. 342, pl. 14. f. 1.
Hypercompa comma, Wlk. iii. 652 (1855).

Head and thorax yellowish white; palpi black, the 1st joint orange; lower part
of frons and vertex of head orange; antennae black; tegulae and vertex of thorax
with a broad black-brown stripe; pectus, legs, and abdomen orange, fore and mid
tibiae and tarsi striped with black-brown; abdomen with dorsal black-brown
stripe. Fore wing yellowish white; a black-brown fascia on costa narrowing
somewhat towards base and to a point well before apex; a fascia on inner margin
narrowing to a point near base and emitting an erect band to lower angle of
cell; a wedge-shaped patch on termen from just below apex to vein 2. Hind wing
orange, usually with a more or less developed subterminal black-brown spot below
vein 2.

Hab. U.S.A., Atlantic States (Doubleday), type ♀ comma, N. York, Grote & Zeller
Colls., 3 ♂, 2 ♀, Ohio (Drury), 1 ♂. Exp. 52 millim.

Seitz, A. (1919). Haploa. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of the
World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 299, pl. 38 g (German
edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 6: 299).

H. clymene Brown (= interrupto-marginata Beauvois, comma Wkr.) (38 g). Forewings
bone-yellow with black margins and a black demi-band resting on the proximal
margin before the proximal angle; hindwing golden yellow with 1 or 2 black spots
above the anal angle. Under surface quite golden yellow, without the black
margins, but with the dark demi-band before the proximal angle of the forewing.
-- Larva, according to Siewers (Canad. Entomol. X, p. 84), of a bright yellow
with a white lateral stripe; above the latter and at the terminal joint red
spotting. On Eupatorium, according to other explorers also on willows. Atlantic
states of the Union, distributed from Canada to Georgia, in most of the
districts common.