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PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIID.^ OF TEM- 

 PERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES. 



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

 ( Continued from page 120, Volume xxit. ) 



Genus Antarctia Hbn. 



18 1 6 — Hiibner, Verzeichniss, 192. 



1864 — Pack., Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil., III., 122. 



1873 — Stretch, Zyg. &i Bomb., 191. 

 The head is small and retracted ; tongue obsolete, palpi very small 

 and weak ; antennae moderately long, bipectinated in the male, simple in 

 the female : the pectinations are long and extend to the tip ; legs short 

 and weak, all the spurs present, but very short : the two pairs of the pos- 

 terior tibiae close together. The tarsal claws are as in Spilosoma, and, 

 indeed, there is no structural difference between these two genera. Ant- 

 arctia has shorter, broader wings, somewhat longer vestiture, and is not 

 white ! 



Primaries with 7 to 10 stalked, the branches arising in pairs ; 3 to 5 

 from the end of the median, and about one-half closer to 5 than to 6. 

 Secondaries 6 and 7 together from the end of the sub-costal ; 8 rather 

 closer to base than usual ; 4 and 5 together from the end of the median, 

 3 very close to the end. 



A. punctata Pack. 



1864 — Pack., Proc Ent. Soc, Phil, III., 123, Antarctia. 



1873 — Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb,, 192. =vagans. 



1875 — Edvv., Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., V., 188, Atitarctia. 



rufula % Bdv. 



1855 — Bdv., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1855, Bull., p. 32, Nemeophila. 



1868— Grt. & Rob., Cat. Lep. N. A., Nemeophila. 



1869 — Bdv., Lep. Cal. (Ann. Soc. Ent., Belg., XII.), 79 Arctia. 



1870 — Grt. & Rob , Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, III., iT^, pr. syn. 



1875 — Edw., Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., V., z^'],pr. syn. 



1 88 1 — Neum., Papilio, I., 80, /r. syn. 



vzx. proba Hy. Edw. 

 188 1 — Edw., Papilio, I., 39, Antarctia. 



Habitat — Sierra Nev., California, Oregon. 



