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1856— Wlk., C. B. Mus. Lep. Het, III., 609, Arctia. 

 186S— Grt. & Rob., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, II., 71, pr. syn. 

 Habitat— Penna., N. Y. 



The form afina is much the least common, being in fact but a suffused 

 form oi persephone. By the operation of the law of priority this suffused 

 and aberrant form must remain the species, while the normal form 

 remains the variety. It is much more widely distributed than above in- 

 dicated. 



A. app7'oximata Stretch. 



1885 — Stretch, Ent. Amer., I., 104, Arctia. 

 Habitat — Canada. 



A. arge Dru. 



1770 — Drury, Illustr., I., 35, pi. 18, f. 3, Nodiia. 



1 791 — Oliv., Enc, Meth., V., 92, ( Phalaena). 



1816 — Hiibner, Verz., 183, Arctia. 



1837 — Westw., ed. Drury, I., n, Spilosoma. 



1 84 1 — Harris, Rept. Ins. Mass., 244, Arctia. 



1856— Wlk., C. B. Mus. Lep. Het., III., 609, =dione. 



1858 — Duncan in Jard. Nat. Lib., XXXII. , 174, pi. 19, f 2, 



Spiiosonia. 

 i860— Clem., Proc. Ac. N. Sci. Phil., XII., 528, Arctia. 

 1862 — Harris,* Ins. Inj. to Veg. ed. Flint, 346 (life hist.) 

 1873 — Stretch,* Zyg. and Bomb., 74, 225, pi. 9, ff. 10 and 11, 



Arctia. 

 1874 — Lintner,* Ent. Contr., III., 143, Arctia. 

 1875 — Grt., Can. Ent., VII., 196, Arctia. 



Andrews,* Psyche, II., 79, Arctia. 

 1882 — Gilbert,* Papilio, II., 50, Arctia. 

 1887 — Smith, Ent. Amer., III., iii, Arctia. 



dione Fabr. 

 1775 — Fabr,, Syst. Ent., 572, Bombyx. 

 1781 — Fabr , Spec. Ins , II., 186, Bombyx. 

 1787 — Fabr., Mant. Ins., II., it 6, Bombyx.. 

 1793 — Fabr., Ent. Syst., III., i, 442, Bombyx. 

 1797 — Sm. Abb.,* Ins. Ga., I., 125, pi. 63. 

 1816 — Hiibner, Verzeichniss, 180, Euplagia. 



