1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 141 



Elpis rubra Neum. 



Var. danbyi n. var. 



Stalk of antenna bright red, pectinations black; hair of thorax 

 brown, with a red tint. Abdomen yellow-brown. Wings trans- 

 lucent; primaries blackish brown, with many minute red hairs 

 intermixed. Secondaries black; all tibiae red on top, the thick 

 hair at base of legs light brown; eyes blackish. 



Type, one , in Mr. Neumoegen's collection. 



Named in honor of Mr. W. H. Danby, Victoria, B. C, from 

 whom the specimen was received. 



Genus EUVERNA n. gen. 



Head retracted, palpi exceeding the front, eyes globose, naked; 

 antennae bipectinate in $ , serrate in 9 ; vestiture of hair and 

 scales rather short and appressed. Abdomen exceeding secon- 

 daries by half its length; thorax moderately stout; abdomen of 

 nearly even width throughout, slightly flattened toward the ex- 

 tremity; primaries elongate, two and a half times as long as 

 broad, costa straight till beyond cell, then slightly rounded over 

 apex: outer margin oblique; internal angle obtuse, not rounded. 

 Secondaries small, trigonate, subcaudate in the , costa convex, 

 apical and anal angles rounded; hind tibiae with two pairs of 

 short conical spurs; anterior tibiae unarmed at tip; vein 8 of sec- 

 ondaries leaves subcostal at about middle of cell, runs very close 

 to it to the apex; veins 7-10 of primaries stalked out of end of 

 cell, as in Spilosoma. 



Type, Seirarctia clio Pack. 



Genus NEOARCTI& n. gen. 



Head much retracted, palpi short, not attaining the front, eyes 

 naked, well sunken in the long hairy vestiture; antennae of 

 moderately bipectinated, females shortly so; thorax rather small, 

 very hairy, abdomen exceeding secondaries, sometimes very 

 much so; primaries more than twice as long as broad; costa 

 slightly convex or straight, apices produced and rather pointed ; 

 outer margin convex, slightly oblique ; interior angle gently 

 rounded. Secondaries full and rounded; costa and outer margin 

 convex, vestiture of the wings thin and subtranslucent. The 

 venation is practically that of Spilosoma. 



Type, Antarctia beanii Neum. 



Arctia brucei Hy. Edw. is congeneric. 



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