March 1894.] NeUMCEGEN & DyAR. N. A. BoMBYCES. T 



latecl slightly on median vein. The median (3rd) line usually 

 reaches from costa to median vein but it may project below median 

 vein or be absent. Rarely the 4th line is partly absent. Secondaries 

 Vermillion red with double marginal row of subtriangular black 

 spots and two to five discal spots. Thorax normal ; abdomen red 

 with dorsal and lateral black spots, The var. citrinaria differs 

 only in the color of secondaries. Expanse, 35 — 50 mm. 

 Habitat, Atlantic States westward. 



E. virguncula Kirby. 



1837 — Callimorpha virguncula Kn^BY, Richaidson Fauna Bor. Amer. , Vol. 

 IV, p. 304. 



var. otiosa Neumcegen &= Dyar. 



1893 — Eiiprepia virguncula var. otiosa Neumcegen & Dyar, Ent. News., Vol. 

 IV, p. 142. 



Smaller than virgo, all the transverse lines except the w-mark 

 absent. Secondaries and abdomen dark ocher yellow, the former 

 with double marginal row of spots, one discal spot, and a series of 

 basal streaks which may become extented and fuse with the enlarged 

 spots rendering the wing largely black. The dorsal abdominal 

 spots are fused into a band. Expanse, 30 — 40 mm. 



Habitat, Northern Atlantic States westward. 



The var. otiosa has slight traces of one or more of the normal 

 transverse lines. 



E. michabo Grote. 



iS-jS—--l'rlia /nic/iado Grote, Can. Ent., Vol. VII, p. 196. 



var minea Slosson. 



1892 — A. minea Slosson, Ent. News., Vol. Ill, p. 257. 



Pale marks fliesh cream color, line 3 oblique, in cell from costa 

 to median vein: line 4 slightly angulated^sometimes almost forming 

 an irregular x with w-mark. W broad. Veins lined, that on 

 median broader than the vein, but only slightly so, approaching 

 the partlienice group. Apex of primaries pointed. Secondaries 

 flesh red, pale in cf ; one to four discal, submarginal and marginal 

 black spots. Secondaries tend to be subtranslucent recalling a) ge 

 which the species also approaches in wing shape, but it has not 

 the x-mark so well developed. Expanse, 43 mm. 



Habitat, Atlantic States westward. 



E. intermedia Stretch. 



1874 — Arctia intermedia S'IREICH, Zyg. and Bomb. N. A., Vol. I, p. 216. 

 \'6^Z — Ar(tia oithona Strecker, Lep. Roph. and Het., p. 131. 



