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Rheumaptera hastata Hiibner. Plate 9, figs. 10, 11. 



Phaln nii-Ctomctra hastata I. inn., Syst. Nat., 527, 1758. 



■• Borkh., Sohm. Eur., 210, L7!)4." 

 •' Ooometra hastala Iliibn., Selnn. Eur., tab. 49, ti^. ii&tj, 1796." 

 Rheumaptera hastata Iliilm., TentamcD, L806-10. 

 Etilype haitata Iliilm., Verz., 328, 1818. 

 Larentia hastata Treits., Scbm. Eur., vi (ii), 207, L828. 

 Xerene hastata Stepb., Nomencl. Br. Ins., -14, 1329. 

 Melanippe hastata Dap., Lep. Fiance, viii (v), 282, pi. L90, fig. 3, 1830. 



Stepb., III., iii. 248, 1831. 

 Mrlaiiippt: himtaria Boisd., (Jen. In<l., 215, 1840. 

 Larentia hastaria El.-Scb., Scbm. Eur., iii, 156, 1847. 

 Melanippe hastata Stepb., Cat. Br. Lep., 212, 1850. 

 Melanippe gothicata Guen., Phal., ii, 388, 1857. 

 Melanippe hastata Guen., Phal., ii, 389, 1857. 



(Maria gothicata Moeschl., Monats. Wien, 374, tab. 10, figs. 4, 5, 18C0. 

 Melanippi hastata Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., sxv, 1282, 1802. 

 Melanippe gothicata Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxv, 1293, 1802. 



'6 <? and 10 9. — This very characteristic and widely-distributed species, 

 the largest of the genus, is deep-black, including the body and wings, with 

 slender white lines edging the abdominal segments. The fore wings are 

 black, with two remote, wavy, curved, basal, white lines often wanting; some- 

 times a third white line is present, situated half-way between the second line 

 and the outer white band ; it runs next to the obscure, black, discal dot; the 

 extradiscal white band is sinuous, bent outward in the middle of the wing, and 

 contains a median row of venular black dots, never united (so far as yet known) 

 into a continuous line as in R. tristata ; sometimes the black dots are want- 

 ing; the point of the median angle is sometimes broken off and isolated from 

 the band as a rhomboidal white spot; the submarginal white line is usually 

 more or less obsolete. Hind wings either wholly black or with traces of a 

 double median line. Fringe black, more or less distinctly checkered with 

 while. Beneath, with the same markings as above, but more diffuse. 



Some of the Labrador, Alaskan, and Rocky Mountain specimens are 

 much whiter than usual (as in fig. 11); the lines and bands being wider, 

 more diffuse, and running into each other; the submarginal band is heavily 

 scalloped; and on the hind wings are two basal white lines. On the under 

 side, the white hands and spots are still larger. 



Length of body, «?, 0.45, 9, 0.45; of lore wing <J, 0.65, ?. 0.65-0.70; 

 expanse of wings, 1.10 inches. 



Okak, Northern Labrador, and Caribou Island, Southern Labrador, July 

 14, common, flying in the sunny valleys (Packard); London. Canada (Saun- 



