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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 144, Volume xxii. ) 



Genus Spilosoma Steph. 



1830— Steph., 111. Br. Ent., Hausl., IL, 74. 



1S56— Wlk., C. B. Mus., Lep. Het., IIL, 663. 



i860— Clem., Proc. Ac. N. Sci , Phil, XIL, 531. 



1873 — Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb., 130. 

 Head small, retracted ; tongue short and weak, membraneous ; palpi 

 very short and feeble. Legs moderate, rather short ; tibial spurs present 

 but very feebly developed. Fore tibiae unarmed. Anterlnse moderately 

 long, bipectinated in the male, simple or serrate in the female. The 

 tarsal claws are toothed in all the species examined. In virginica the 

 posterior tarsi only, in vestalis all are toothed. 



The primaries have the cell somewhat shorter than usual, veins 7 to 

 ID on a stalk from the end of the subcostal in the order 10, 7, 9, 8 ; 3 

 to 5 are from the end of the median, 4 rather closer to 5 than to 3. 



Secondaries with 6 and 7 together from the end of the subcostal, 8 

 from same rather past the middle, 3 to 5 from the end of the median, 4 

 much closer to 3 than to 5. 

 S. antigone Strk. 



1879 — Strk., Rept. Chief Eng., 1878-79, V., p. i860, Spilosoma. 



1883 — Grt., Can. Ent., XV , 9, =congrua. 



1886 — Hulst., Ent. Amer., II., 162, - congriia. 



1889 — Smith, Ent. Amer., V., 121, an sp. dist. congrua. 

 S. congrua % Grt. 



1883 — Grt., Can. Ent., XV., 9, Spilosoma. 



1886 — Hulst*, Ent. Amer., II., 15, Spilosoma. 



1889— Soule & Elliot*, Psyche, V., 259, life hist. 



Habitat — Mass., N. Y., Ga., Colorado. 

 My reasons for this synonomy are given in Ent. Amer., V., 121. 

 Walker's description does not apply to antigojie at all, while it does apply 

 to cunea, a specimen of which, according to Butler, was of the " types." 



