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A. M. N. H. (7) iii., p. 234 (1899), a form from Sumatra with the hindwing 

 wholly suffused with scarlet. 

 Sect. Ill, (JEthalidd) Antenna? of male ciliated. 



A. Vertex of thorax with dark stripes. 



a. Forewing with, usually complete, postmedial white 



band 1209. erosa. 



b. Forewing with irregular postmedial, usually conjoin- 



ed, white patches on costal and inner areas 1212. matherana. 



B. Vertex of thorax with dark spots 1210. distorla. 



1212. Pericallia matherana insert 1211 F 'angora rubelliana which is 



the local race of it from Canara, Nilgiris, and Travancore with the yellow 

 replaced by scarlet. 



Genus Euarctia. 



Type. 

 Cardnopyga, Feld., Reis. Nov. p. 2 (1874), non. descr. Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind., III., p. 492 (1896) lichenigera. 



Euarctia, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit XLVIII., p. 79 (1887) proserpina. 



1254. Euarctia lichenigera. 



Genus Arctia. 

 Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to just beyond the frons ; antenna: 

 of male bipectinate with moderate branches, of female serrate ; head, thorax 

 and base of abdomen dorsally clothed with woolly hair ; tibia? with the spurs 

 short. Forewing broad, vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 5 from just above 

 angle ; 6 from just below upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 free. Hindwing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 5 

 from just above angle ; 6*7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Antennae with the shaft white above caia. 



B. Antennae with the shaft black above except sometimes 



at extremity..... ...... , tibetica. 



1202. Arctia caia, Linn., Syst. Nat. 1, p. 500 (1758) Hiibn. 

 Eur. Schmett II. ff. 130-131. 



Phalcma erinacea, Retz. Gen. Spec. Ins., p. 36 ( 1783). 



Arctia caja var wiskotti, Staud. Hor. Ent. Ross xiv., p. 333 (1878). 

 „ orientalis, Moore, A. M. N. H. (5), I., p. 230 (1878). 



Habitat. — Europe ; Armenia ; N.-W. Himalayas ; Khasis. 



Subsp. 1 americana Harr. Rep. Ins. Mass, p. 246 (1841). 



Tegulae with a broad white band in front. 



Habitat. — W. Siberia, Altai ; E, Siberia, Amur ; Japan ; Alaska ; Canada, 

 Br. Columbia ; U. S. A., N. E. States. 



Subsp. 2 Utahensis, H. Edw. Ent. Am. II., p. 166 (1887). 



Head and teguhe crimson, the latter with a broad white band in front ; 

 abdomen scarlet ; hindwing yellow. 



Habitat. — U. S. A., Utah, Colorado. 



1204. Arctia, tibetica insert (syn ) 1201 A. mttadra. 



