1866.] 41 [Packard. 



Anarta leucoeycla Staudlnger, Ent. Zeitung, Stettin, 18. p. 29(5. 



1857. 



Syjnpistis leucoeycla Moschler, Wiener Ent. Monatsch. iv. p. 367. 

 Taf. 9. fig. 6. 1860. 



Labrador, Moschler ; Greenland, Staud. Okak, S. Weiz. 



Anarta bicycla n. sp. 



3. Closely resembling A. leucoeycla, but differs in having an in- 

 ner and outer white discal circle, instead of a single one. Head very 

 hairy, palpi ascending, reaching far beyond the front, being large and 

 stout, with white and grey scales. Prothoracic scales whitish at base. 

 Fore wings dark stone grey, with whitish scales ; at the base an ob- 

 lique sinuate black line goes from the costa to the median nervure. 

 Beyond is a costal, square, oblong, black spot, connecting with four 

 black spots, crossing the wing in a zigzag interrupted line, the second 

 spot forming the outer side of the discal black line enclosing two 

 unequal round white spots, centred with black, the inner one being 

 a little elongated, and the outer round. Halfway between them and 

 the inner edge, is a distinct regular black stripe, obliquely following the 

 general course of the lower median nervule, and touching externally 

 on an extra discal, sinuate, irregular whitish line, which before reaching 

 the costa, strikes inward at a right angle, terminating in a white 

 costal spot opposite the outer discal spot. Beyond is a submarginal 

 sinuate black line, edged with pale gray. Fringe dark, with wedge- 

 shaped white spots in the middle of the wing. Hind wings dusky at 

 the base, nearly including the curvilinear discal dot ; beyond white, 

 except on the costa. Edge broadly margined with deep black, fringe 

 white, dusky at base towards the apex of the wing. Beneath, the 

 body is pale gray ; fore wings du.sky gray, with a minute discal black 

 point opposite a dark costal stripe, edged without with white, which 

 is angulated inwai'ds towards the middle of the wing ; outer edge 

 margined broadly with black; fringe dusky, spotted with white. 

 Hind wings towards the base more white than above. Abdomen 

 gray. Legs dark, ringed with white. 



Length of body .45; fore wing .45 inch. 



$ . The wings are more oblong, and the outer edge straighter, and 

 apex less produced than in the male. The costal spots are not so 

 large ; the wing is crossed by three distinct zlczac black lines which 

 are more connected than in the $ ; the submarginal line is narrower, 

 composed of cuneiform black marks. Beneath, the subapical, black, 

 oblique stripe is broader than in the 5 . 



Length .40 ; fore wing .44 inch. 



This is not an uncommon species, and more of them were found 



