CALLARCTIA. i5I 



extremities ; collar red, with two small black streaks above it ; 

 thorax with a black stripe in the centre, and another on each 

 side; abdomen with three rows of black spots, those on the 

 back being the largest. The anterior femora have two black 

 spots on them close to the head. 



Abbot has accurately figured the larva. It is dark brown, 

 with five whitish or yellow longitudinal stripes. On each seg- 

 ment is a transverse row of fulvous tubercles, from which grow 

 dense tufts of brown hairs. It feeds on a variety of plants, but 

 is said to prefer plantain {Phuifago viajor)^ Indian corn, and 

 peas. A specimen kept by Abbot was hatched on the 23rd of 

 July, and spun upon the 28th August, the Moth appearing on 

 the 9th of September. The pupa has five reddish bands, and 

 terminates in a point. 



GENUS CALLARCTIA. 



Euprepla^ Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 181 (1822 ?) ; Her- 

 rich-Schaffer, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 141 (1847). 



Callarctia^ Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 114 

 (1864). 



Tympanophora, Laboulb^ne, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (4) iv. p. 

 704 (1864). 



Cymbalophora^ Rambur, Cat. Lepid. And. ii. p. 231 (1866). 



This genus resembles Apantesis^ but the wings are rather 

 narrower and m^re rounded, and the pale bands are so much 

 broken that the fore-wings might equally well be described as 

 pinkish-white, with large black spots, or black with narrow in- 

 terlacing and crossing pinkish-white stripes. The hind-wings 

 are pinkish-white, with black spots ; the antennae are ciliated 

 in the male, and the body is stout, and the abdomen rather 

 long. The typical species is European, but not British, and is 

 remarkable for its stridulatory powers. 



