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the beginning of May in the following year. The cocoon is 

 white and soft, but rather dense, and the pupa is black. 



GENUS ArANTESIS. 

 Apantesis, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. iii. p. (^^^i (1855). 

 This genus includes a large number of North-American 

 species, of moderate size, with oval dark fore-wings covered 

 with crossed and interlacing cream-coloured bands or spots, 

 and with red, white, yellow, or black hind-wings, generally 

 spotted with black. We have figured two examples of the 

 genus. 



APANTESIS VIRGO. 

 i^Plate LXXXVI. Fig. 3 [imago), 4 {larva), 5 [pupa).) 



Bombyx virgo, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 501, no. 23 



(1758) ; id. Mus. Ludov. Ulricae, p. 381 (1764) ; Clerck, 



Icones, pi. 45, fig. 5 (1759)- 

 Phalcena virgo. Abbot & Smith, Lepid. Georg. ii. pi. 62 (1797). 

 Euplagia virgo, Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 130, 



(1824?). 

 Spilosoma virgo^ Duncan, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. Moths, 



p. 266, pi. 19 (1841). 

 Arciia virgo, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 608, no. 



23 (1855) ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Amer. p. 126, pi. 6, 



figs. I, 2 (1872). 



This handsome Moth is an inhabitant of most parts of 

 North America. It expands from 2 to 2^-2 inches. 



The head and thorax are cream-coloured or pale flesh- 

 coloured, the latter with two black spots in front, and three 

 rather broad black longitudinal streaks. The fore-wings are 

 velvety-black, with numerous cream-coloured or flesh-coloured 

 stripes, dividingthe ground-colour into many triangular, quad- 

 rate, and linear spots. The hind-wings are red, of a more or 



