124 Lloyd's natural history. 



apex ; with a patch of the same colour on the inner margin 

 before the middle. There are several small white spots at the 

 base and a remote series of the same running close to and 

 parallel with the hind-margin. The hind-wings are yellow, 

 with a broad black border containing a marginal row of white 

 spots. The anterior part of the thorax is spotted with white. 

 The abdomen is brown. The variety figured by Swainson 

 differs a little from the type, as figured by Cramer. Our figure 

 represents Swainson's insect. 



SUB-FAMILY IV. PH^GOPTERIN^. 



This is an extensive group of foreign Moths, the larger pro- 

 portion of which are American. They resemble the typical 

 Arctiidce in many respects, but the body is more slender, and 

 the fore-wings are longer, narrower, and more pointed. Some 

 of the species are very like ZygcertidcE, and they are occasion- 

 ally brightly coloured, but the greater part of them are uni- 

 formly coloured, being white or buff. The abdomen is often 

 marked with a row of black dots down the middle, and the 

 hind-wings are occasionally produced into a lobe, the only 

 approach to a tail which we find in the Arctiidce. Black spots 

 or rmgs on a white ground are a very frequent style of colour- 

 ing. As an illu.-.tration of this Sub-family we have figured one 

 of the largest species, which is not uncommon in the United 

 States and Canada. 



GENUS ECPANTHERIA. 



Ecpaiiiheria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 183 (1822 ?) 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 688 (1855) 

 Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. i860, p. 523 (1861) 

 Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Amer. p. 174 (1872); Oberthiir, 

 Etudes d'Ent. vi. p. 99 (1881). 



