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iieai'ly ontirely under the stigma so that the following warts are 

 lying' alinost in one line, which also passes through the stigma 

 and the middle of the leg. V. dorsalis, v. supmsthjinalis^ v. jxM- 

 8f/(/iiiaUs, V. infrmtignialis and v. basalis. 



The other instars remain unchanged. 



llecapi tula tion. The wart-shaped tubercula bear in all in- 

 stars plumed setae. The pattern (Type 1) is very simple and 

 hardly changes during the different instars. All the different 

 tubercula are about equally large. 



There is no v. dorsolateralis. V. poststlgmalis is shifted a little 

 under the stigma, n. infrastigmalis is situated on a low level. 



Spüosotiia {Ocnofiijna) hihricipeda Linn. Plate XIII, fig. 6. 



Entirely as Arctia caja^ but in the beginning the setae are 

 not feathered. V. poststigmalh is also shifted from under the 

 stigma. The setae on the leg are very densily feathered. On the 

 ventral side mediad of the leg a tuberculum without setae = r. 

 ventndis occurs. 



In instar IV a linea dorsalis is present. 



Family Sijntomidae. The verrucae completely agree with type I, 

 but there is only one verruca on the mesothorax and metatho- 

 rax over v. prostigmalis. This only occurs in the Pericopldae. 

 The verrucae change a great deal in form, size and number. 

 Fracker (1915, p. 118) found that segment 7 has the same pat- 

 tern as the other abdominal segments. The setae are plumed and 

 often form pencils. Mostly secondary setae. 



Coll. Kall. no material. 



Family Nolidae. Fracker puts this family (1915, p. 98) with 

 the Lacosomidae as Microlepidoptera of uncertain position after 

 the ZYGAENOID series. The caterpillars bear verrucae which 

 remind us of thosc of the Arctiidae. 



Family Agaristidae. Fracker (1915, p. 114) examined different 

 kinds and comes to the conclusion, that it is right to unite this 

 family with the Noctuidae. This harmonizes with the fact that 

 Handlirsch (1908) places these families close together. 



