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toward the tip of the wings. Posterior wing with testaceous stripes connected 

 toward the tip. 

 Labrador. 



*A. gelid a, Moochler, Ent. Zeit. Stell., ix. 17, 3, 174. Black. Thorax 

 with two yellow stripes. Abdomen yellow on the sides, spotted with black. 

 Fore wings somewhat yellowish, with angular black spots. Posterior some- 

 what cinereous. 



Labrador. 



With two distinct marginal nervules from the disk. 



A. Virgo, Hiibner. Thorax buff-colored, sometimes tinged with reddish, 

 with two black spots, one on each patagium ; disk with an oval black stripe, 

 and each of the tegulse striped broadly with black. Fore wings black, with 

 the margins, the veins and their branches, a broad line along the fold, a 

 stripe from the origin of the subcosto-inferior nervule angularly furcate be- 

 neath the median vein, an oblique stripe near the tip of the wing, with two 

 spots on the costa behind it, and one on the disk, all buff-colored, sometimes 

 tinted faintly with reddish. Hind wings red, spotted with large black spots. 

 Abdomen red, with a black macular band on the dorsum. 



New York, Nova Scotia. Illinois, Mr. Kennicott. 



With two distinct marginal nervules. Labial palpi little exceeding the clypeus. 



A. D i o n e , Drury. Eeddish white or flesh-colored. Thorax with two 

 black stripes in front, one on each side at the base of the wings, with three of 

 the same hue on the disk, one central and one on each tegulse. Fore wings 

 with a black stripe along the submedian vein and black cuneiform spots on 

 the disk and between the nervules. Hind wings white or flesh-colored, with 

 black spots and sometimes with yellow along the margins. Abdomen spotted 

 with black. 



N. Y., Ga. Mass., Mr. Scudder. 111., Mr. Kennicott. 



* A. Virguncula, Kirby. Black. Thorax buff-colored, with five black 

 spots. Fore wings with the margins, the veins and the branches reddish buff- 

 colored. Hind wings luteous, spotted with large black spots. Abdomen 

 reddish buff, with a macular band of triangular spots above. 



New York, Canada. 



* A. N a i s , Drury. Thorax white, with two black spots in front and three 

 black stripes. Fore wings black, with three white stripes, the second furcate, 

 and oblique, subapical white bands. Sometimes the oblique bands are want- 

 ing, as likewise some of the stripes. The veins sometimes testaceous. Hind 

 wings yellowish or red, more or less varied with black. Abdomen white, 

 with a broad black stripe ; sometimes nearly wholly brown. 



Mass. 



A. Phylira, Drury. Thorax buff-colored, with a short black stripe on 

 each patagium, a broad stripe on the disk, one on each tegulse and a short 

 one on the sides at the base of the wings of the same hue. Fore wings black, 

 with a buff-colored stripe along the costa, deflected at the apical third of the 

 wing to the inner angle, a broad stripe of the same hue beneath the median 

 vein extended to the hinder margin and turned at an acute angle toward the. 

 costa. The median stripe is likewise produced along the fold, joining the de- 

 flected portion of the costal stripe at the inner angle. Inner margin buff- 

 colored. Hind wings bright red in the J , often yellowish red in the ^, and 

 with large black spots in the former, which are frequently almost obsolete in 

 the latter. Abdomen red, black above. 



111., Mich., Mass., Penn., Texas. Col. of Capt. Pope. Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. 



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