March i8q4.] NEUMff.GEN & DyaR. N. A. BoMBYCES. 17 



var. modesta Packard. 



1864 — Platarctia modesta Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. Ill, p. 113. 

 1868 — A^enieophila cacspitis Grote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. 



I. P- 337. 

 1868 — Xenieophila chicoril Grote & RoBiNsox, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. 



I, p. 338. 



var. geometrica Grote. 



1865 — Etipsychoma geometrica Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. IV, p. 318. 

 var. scudderii Packard. 



i%6^— Platarctia scudderii Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. Ill, p. 113. 

 \Z^^—N'emeophila sclivynii Hy. Edwards, Can. Ent., Vol. XVII, p. 65. 

 Black; collar, except black central dot, and base of costa, 

 buff; a longitudinal band, oblique sub-apical band and discal dot 

 with traces of another near apex, white or yellow, or absent. 

 Secondaries white, red, or yellow, or partly or wholly black. Ex- 

 panse, 35 mm. 



Habitat., Mountains of Colorado and California to Canada and 

 British Columbia. 



Genus Hypercompa Hilbncr. 



1805? — Hypercompa IIubnkr, Tentamen, p. i. 

 \'&22-Zoote HiiHNER, Verz. bek. Schmett.. p. 181. 



H. caja LiniKCUs. 



1758 — Bomliyx caja Linn.eus, Syst. Nat.. Vol. I, p. 500. 



race americana Harris. 



1S41 — Arctia americana Harris, Rep. Ins. Mass., p. 246. 



race utahensis Hy Edwards. 



\%%-l—Eup. caja var. utahensis Hy. Edwards, Ent. Amer., Vol. II, p. 166. 

 var. transmontana Neitmagen e^ Dyar. 



1893 — H. caja var. transmontana Neumcegen & Dyau, Ent. News, Vol. IV, 

 p. 214. 



race opulenta Hy. Edwards. 



iSSr — Eiiprepia opuienta IlY. Edwards, Pap., Vol. I. p. 38. 



Primaries and thorax dark brown with transverse anterior and 

 transverse posterior and angular terminal white bands and two 

 costal dots representing additional bands. A longitudinal band 

 along submedian fold, often absent. Secondaries pale reddish to 

 yellow with one or more discal and three large round submarginal 

 blue-black spots. Abdomen reddish with dorsal black spots. 

 Expanse, 55 — 65 mm. 



Habitat., Europe and America. 



