142 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 



Genus EUPREPIA Ochs. (Arctia auct.) 



E. virgo Linn. 



Var. citrinaria n. var. 



Differs from typical virgo in having the ground color of the 

 secondaries entirely light yellow instead of red; the form is rare. 

 The type is in Mr. Neumoegen's collection. 



E. virguncula Kirby. 

 Var. otiosa n. var. 



Two specimens in Mr. Dyar's collection differ from typical vir- 

 guncnla in having traces of the usual transverse lines, which are 

 normally absent in the species. In one specimen there are en- 

 largements on the median venules and subcostal vein, obsoletely 

 connected, representing the outer (4th) line which would be 

 straight if the markings were sufficiently continuous to form a 

 line; in the other specimen there is a short bar in the cell between 

 subcostal and median veins, representing the outer median (.3d) 

 line. 



This form approaches the variety complicata. of E. ornata, 

 which differs from the fully marked var. acharia (the ground 

 form) in the absence of the basal half line (ist line) and the 

 greater or less obsolescence of both inner and outer median (2d 

 and 3d) lines, or even in the breaking up of the outer (4th) line. 

 We cannot, however, follow Mr. Kirby in referring complicata 

 Wlk. as a synonym of virguncuta, for the species differ in several 

 important characters, of which, perhaps, the most evident, is the 

 heavy lining of the median vein in virguncula, as contrasted with 

 the narrow, obsolescent marking in complicata, which leads to 

 the disappearance of the vein linings in the form ornata Pack. 

 Mr. Packard has wrongly identified E. ornata. 



E. arge Sm. & Abb. 



Var. ncrvosa n. var. 



This curious form differs from typical argc in the absence of 

 all transverse lines, even of the angular terminal (5th) line, while 

 the hind wings are largely suffused with blackish. The veins on 

 the fore wings are distinctly lined with flesh color, and the longi- 

 tudinal submedian streak is present, forked at the end; the tho- 

 racic and abdominal parts are colored as in E. arge. There is a 

 figure of this form in Mr. Strecker's unpublished plates of the 

 Arctiidae (PL viii, fig. 20) and examples in Mr. Neumorgrn's 



