116 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIID^ OF TEM- 

 PERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES. 



BY JOHN B. SMITH, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. 

 ( Contimied from page 104, Volume xxii.) 



Genus Leptarctia Stretch. 



J 873 — Stretch, Zygaenidse and Bombycidse, 118. 

 Head small, hardly retracted ; eyes inconspicuous, bulging ; ocelli 

 distinct; vestiture thin, loose and divergent; tongue weak and short, 

 spiral ; palpi weak, short, drooping, with thin divergent vestiture ; legs 

 sub-equal, posterior slightly the longest ; middle and posterior tibiae each 

 with minute terminal spurs only. The thorax is short, stout, convex with 

 thin hairy vestiture. The antennal joints of the female have the joints 

 marked, scarcely serrate ; in the male they are bipectinate. The primaries 

 have 7 to 10 out of a long stalk from the end of the sub-costal, 6 from a 

 short spur out of the same point ; 3, 4 and 5 are nearly equi distant from 

 the end of the median, and quite close together. On the secondaries 8 as 

 usual, 6 and 7 from the end of the sub costal ; 3, 4 and 5 rather close 

 together from the end of the median. I had intended to give a review of 

 Mr. Butler's work on this genus (1881, Ann. Mag., N. H., ser. 5, VIII., 

 312), but the excellent paper by Mr. French in the November-December, 

 1889, numbers of the Can. Ent. has rendered this unnecessary, and I 

 simply give the bibliography, using Mr. French's sequence of species or 

 varieties. Whether in a genus like this, where no two specimens arealike, 

 so many names are desirable is a question. Twice the number could be 

 as justly applied. A large series of specimens is in the United States 

 National Museum, one lot bred from eggs produced by a ^ stretchii with 

 a % lena — the extremes of the series as arranged by Mr. French. 



Z. stretchii Butler. 



1881 — Butl., Ann. Mag. N. H., 5, VIIL, 312, Leptarctia. 

 1889 — French, Can. Ent., XXI., 222, f. 12, Leptarctia. 

 ^ diniidiata Str. 



1873 — Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb., pi. V., f. 9, Leptarctia. 

 1881— Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H., 5, VIIL, 2,12, typ. pr. 

 Habitat — Oregon, So. California. 



