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* A. Placentia, Abbott and Smith. Blackish brown. Fore wings with 

 a dot or three pale testaceous spots. Hind wings red, with the margin and 

 several submarginal spots blackish brown. Abdomen above red, with dorsal 

 spots and the tip blackish brown. 



Georgia. 



*A. virginalis, Boisd. Abdomen above fulvous, banded with black, 

 beneath black. Fore wings black; with about twenty yellowish white spots. 

 Hind wings fulvous, with black bands. 



California. 



* A. hyperborea. Eyprepia hyperboreus, Curtis, Ap. Ross. Nar. 2d Voy. 

 Ixxi. 17. Male. Chestnut brown. Fore wings with costal spot and inter- 

 rupted streak behind isable yellow. Hind wings with a brown band, a spot 

 and the margin ochreous. 



Arctic America. 



*A. Americana, Harris. " Fore wings brown, with several spots and 

 broad winding lines of white. Hind wings ochre-yellow, with five or six 

 round blue-black spots, three larger than the others. Thorax brown and 

 woolly. Patagia edged with white before and with crimson behind. Outer 

 edges of tegulae white. Abdomen ochre-yellow, with four black spots in the 

 middle above." 



Trenton Falls, N. Y. ; Lake Superior. 



Fore wings with a single marginal nervule from the cell and another beyond the 

 origin of the subcosto-inferior nervule. 



A. Parthenos, Harris. Var. ? A. Americana, Walker, 607? Thorax 

 reddish brown. Vertex and the ends of patagia bright red. Thorax banded 

 in front and along the tegulse with pale yellow. Fore wings rather dark yel- 

 lowish brown, with two rows of pale yellow, separated spots, one along the 

 costa with three nearly joining over subcostal nervules, and one along the 

 fold with a stripe at the base of it. Along the hinder margin is an indistinct 

 row of pale yellow spots, those in the middle nearly obsolete. Hind wings 

 yellow, with a broad black band in the middle furcate externally and a sub- 

 terminal undulating one of the same hue, with the nervules between the 

 bands touched with black. Abdomen, disk black, the tip somewhat orange 

 yellow, beneath reddish. 



Mass. Mr. Scudder. British America. 



* A. fervida, Walker, 612. Blackish brown. Abdominal segments 

 with bright red dorsal bands. Fore wings with a white fringe along the outer 

 border ; two pale testaceous streaks, one extending in the disk from the base 

 to half the length, the other short, oblique, about two-thirds of the length, ex- 

 tending from near the fore border into the disk ; under side red, with brown 

 borders. Hind wings bright red, with very broad blackish brown borders, 

 which in their narrowest part are accompanied by a slender brown band ; 

 under side like the upper side, but without the band. Body 6 lines long ; 

 wings 16 lines. 



Guatemala. 



Ectypia. 



Fore wings about one-third longer than the hind wings, with two subcosto- 

 marginal branches from the cell, the second forming a costal cell with the sub- 

 costal by a branch which joins it at the origin of the post-apical. The apical 

 nervule with a moderate apical nervulet. The subcosto-inferior nervule and 

 the discal vein arise on a short common stalk, the latter angulated. The 

 median vein is 4-branched, the posterior nervule being remote from the 

 others, which are aggregated. The neuration of the hind wings, which are 



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