LÉPIDOPTÉROLOGIE COMPARÉE 367 



subdorsal ones. Thèse bars are outlincd with a neat black edging 

 Ihat sometimes completely obscures the yellow. 



The collar is yellow and is interrupted with black. The anal 

 plate is distinct and is much rounder than in hhtaria. Its colour is 

 grey. closely black spotted, but the two larger spots bearing hairs, 

 so conspicuous to the naked eye in hiriaria, are much less visible. 

 It is outlined in dull yellow and the usual four black warts and 

 hairs are présent. 



Before it, too, are the two yellow spots of hirtaria and the 

 influence of that species is seen in the présence of the two promi- 

 nents warts or tubercles on the 8th abdominal segment. Thèse 

 are brownish outlined and are less than those on hirtaria. 



The spiracular stripe is in the position of the interrupted one in 

 hirtaria but, while more zonaria like in colour, gênerai appea- 

 rance, etc. ; it is brighter yellow and decidedly narrow^er. It is 

 furnished with the usual black edging. Nor is it so continuous 

 as that of zonaria for it tends to break at the middle of each seg- 

 ment. Above it stands quite conspicuously, the bright, clear, yellow 

 spot of hirtaria. In some cases, what appears to be a primrose 

 coloured branch, leaves it, and passing beneath, continues parallel' 

 to it for some distance. It is probably more zonaria like at the 

 beginning of each segment and more inclined to hirtaria toward 

 the end. Often, too, it is confused and doubled on the thorax. 

 The spiracles, which are large and black, not brick red as in 

 hirtaria, are in a dark suffusion before the yellow spots, which, 

 in spite of the confusion on the last abdominal segments, persist 

 there. 



Beneath, there is a great likeness to zonaria. Even the medio- 

 ventral stripes are much nearer to that species and the effect of 

 hirtaria is but weakly seen. The subspiracular stripe is represented 

 by a little of the yellow filling in and a few scattered remains of 

 the edging. Between this and the spiracular line is a black suffu- 

 sion becoming deeper and deeper until the line is reached. 



The legs are rather pale and are black marked. Between the 

 legs, the body area is yellowish, but before each pair of legs is a 



