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wings rounded, broader than the fore wings, with the costal and 

 subcostal veins from a common stalk, the former simple and the 

 latter bifid, with an angulated discal vein from the point of bifur- 

 cation. Median with three branches, the posterior remote. 



Head moderate, free, smooth ; ocelli small. Face moderate, 

 flat, smooth. Eyes rather large, prominent. Antennae not more 

 than half as long as the body, rather stout, setaceous and slightly 

 setose. Palpi rather slender, porrected, exceeding the clypeus by 

 at least one-half their length, and pubescent ; the terminal joint 

 pointed and slender, about one-half as long as the middle joint. 

 Tongue slender, about one-half as long as the anterior coxae, or 

 rudimentary. 



Body smooth, rather slender ; length less than that of the hind 

 wings, Patagia scale-like. Abdomen smooth, beneath one-half 

 as long as the body. Legs rather slender; fore tibite with a short, 

 concealed, middle spur ; hind tibiae with four short spurs. 



Closely allied to the Arctiidce. 



Table of Species. 

 Wings with a discal dot. 



Abdomen ferruginous, with dorsal and black dots. ferruginosa. 



Abdomen rose color, brevicornis. 



Abdomen reddish-brown or fulvous. rubicundaria. 



Wings without discal dot. 



Abdomen red, with a black stripe. laeta. 



Abdomen testaceous ; wings subhyaline. cupraria. 



1, C. rubicundaria Hiibner. Samml. Ex. Sch. Ill, 28, 25G, f. 511, 5, 12. 

 Arctia rubricosa Harris, Ins. Mass. 2d ed. 274. See p. 256. 



Fulvous or reddish-brown. Antennae fulvous, blackish on the 

 sides. Fore wing sometimes with a brown discal spot. Hind 

 wings more or less red, with a more or less distinct marginal black 

 band, sometimes absent, and sometimes with a dark brown discal 

 dot. Fore wings with a second marginal nervule on the middle 

 of the apical. 



Pennsylvania. 



CliEMENS. 



Variety/? Yellowish. Fore wings without discal dot. Hind 



