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thi-ee stripes agreeing with the row uf spots running through 

 V. siibdorsalU^ v. supradignialis and the spots over the stigma, 

 ïhere is no clear stigmatic stripe. The infrastigmatic stripe is distinet 

 on the front and back edges of the segment, the basal stripe is 

 narrow, and there is a clear, broad pedal stripe. 

 Piipa. I could not find any sign of a pattern. 



Family Eupteyotidae. Fracker (1915) includes Ajjafo/cdcs which 

 deviates in respect to the tubercula. I think that he is right as 

 regards the larva. 



Family Liparidae ^= Lytnantridae. ïhe tussock-moths can be 

 divided into two groups, those with and those without pencil-shaped 

 setae. Several of them have long since drawn the attention of 

 investigators because of their peculiar pattern, the thick tussocks 

 of setae and because of the sexual dimorphism of the cater- 

 pillars. 



L i t e r a t u r e : 



SwAMMERDAM (1737), Or(jyia 9 and cf caterpillar, pupa with setae. 



HüBNER (1766), development of the setae. 



RiLEY (1885), Orgyia. 



Wachtl and Kornauth (1893), particular setae of Oc/nena. 



Packard (1889 and 1893), development of Onjijia. 



Fracker (1915), synopsis of the family. 



The last mentioned writer says (1. c. p. 1 04 sqq.) that PorthcirUi^ 

 Gyyiaephora and Euprodis have the ordinary verrucae likc the 

 Arctiidae^ except that there are three verrucae on the mesothorax 

 and the metathorax above the K-group. 



He thinks that the coalescence of ,r with p which occurs in 

 Porthetria = Lymantria (therefore of r. poststignialis with v. supra- 

 stigmalix) is unique. He examined Enpro(iix = PoytJicmi but did not 

 observe the same arrangement there. The second group has pencils, 

 to this belojig Olene^ Hemerocampd and Notolophn^ ^= Orgyia. 



Fracker does not attach much importance to the question whether 

 j. and p (i. e. verruca dorsalis and subdorsalis) coalesce or not. 



I examined three ('omj)lete series, my principal results are: 



