Arctiidae 
spots. E. congrua has the abdomen white on the upper side. 
The genus is represented in Asia, Africa, and Tasmania, as well 
as in the temperate regions of North America. 
(i) Estigmene acraea Drury, Plate, XVI, Fig. 11, $, 
Fig. 12, ?. (The Acraea Moth. ) 
Syn. caprotina Drury; menthastrina Martyn; pseuderminea Peck; 
californica Packard; packardi Schaupp; klagesi Ehrman. 
A western variety with the fore wings slightly shaded with 
brown has been dubbed dubia by Walker, and rickseckeri by 
Behr. In Mexico there is a local race in which the males have 
the hind wings white like the females, and to this race Hampson 
has applied the name mexicana. This is altogether one of 
Fig. 67. —Estigmene acrcea , $ . (After Hampson.) 
the commonest insects in the Middle Atlantic States, and with 
the illustrations we have given can be easily determined. 
(2) Estigmene congrua Walker, Plate XVI, Fig. 8, S . 
(The white-bodied Estigmene.) 
Syn. antigonc Strecker; athena Strecker. 
A fairly common species in Pennsylvania and the Atlantic 
States generally, ranging westward as far as Colorado. 
Genus HYPHANTRIA Harris 
This small genus contains only three or four species, one of 
which is South African. 
(1) Hyphantria cunea Drury. (The Fall Web- worm 
Moth.) 
Form punctatissima Abbott & Smith, Plate XVI, 
Fig. 10, $ * 
*The specimens used on Plate XVI, Figs, io and 7, both unfortunately developed 
grease on their abdomens between the time when they were set up for the photographer, 
and the time when they were photographed. The abdomen in both cases is normally 
white, with darker markings. 
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