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sixth vein almost to its apex ; posterior crossvein bordered with 

 brown, this color exteudiug- to the hind margin of the wing ; upper 

 end of the small crossvein also bordered with brown. Halteres 

 light yellow. Legs light yellow, the broad apices of the femora 

 and the last four joints of the tarsi reddish yellow, hind tibia? red- 

 dish yellow or dark brown. Length 6 to 8 mm. 



Honolulu, Hawaii. Two males and two females bred by Mr. 

 George Compere from larvae living in green cucumbers. Type 

 No. 4207, U. S. Nat. Museum. 



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INOTES ON ALASKAN ARCTIIDAE. 



BY HARRISON G. DTAR. 



Phragmatobia fuhginosa , Linn. 



This possibly occurs in Alaska. The National Museum has a 

 specimen collected by Dr. Stejueger on Bering Island, off Kam- 

 chatka. 



Arctinia rubra, Neum. 



Nusagak, Alaska, May 13, 1882. (McKay.) 



Hyphoraia yarrow i. Stretch. 



St. Michael's, Alaska (Turner); Bethel, Kusokquim River. 



In the color of the wings the specimens resemble var. remissa 

 Hy. Edw., but the markings of the hind wings are as in yarrow f. 

 The fore wings are chestnut brown, the spotting sorbid white, not 

 yellow; hind wings ocherous, the markings gray black. Below 

 both wings are more or less strongly suffused with crimson out- 

 wardly and along costa. All the specimens are males, expanse 35 to 

 38mm. 



I suspect that this is really the hyperborea of Curtis, the expanse 

 of which is given as 1 inch 11 lines, whereas parthenos Harr is 

 much larger and probably distinct from hyperborea. The larval 

 skin and chrysalis accompany one specimen. The larval hairs are 

 dense, spiuu lose, uniform and rather short, whitish, mixed with 

 black. The slender pupa is^ black with strong cremaster, the seg- 

 mental incisures polished. The cocoon is weak and largely of silk. 



Hyphoraia subnebulosa, 11. sp. 



d" Fore wings reddish chestnut brown, marks pale yellow: a basal 

 streak along vein 1 to middle of wing; another shorter streak on 

 base of median vein, joined to costa by a short bar, at the end an ob- 

 lique bar joins the center of the streak on vein 1 ; an oblique angu- 

 lar spot in center of cell and a second at the end of the cell ; a trans- 

 verse posterior baud from costa, dentate inwardly in the interspace 

 between veins 5-6 arid again very strongly in the submedian inter- 

 space; a submarginalbaud, bent in dentately to touch the t. p. baud 

 in the interspace 6-7, again at 3-4 and again in the submedian inter- 



