l'JJRAUMATOBIA. 



,*U9 



on each side by greyish ochreous bands, strong, diffused, and oblique 

 from costa to vein 3, then narrower and incurved; traces .if a 

 curved diffused subterminal greyish line ; cilia greyish ochreous at 

 tips. Hind wing crimson; small blackish spots at angles of cell; 

 a black-brown terminal band from apex to vein 1. expanding some- 

 what towards costa; cilia crimson; the underside with blackish 

 spot on costa before middle, a black bar on upper discocellular, the 

 costal area black-brown from above end id' cell. 



ab. I. Thorax with less crimson on dorsum; fore wing with the 

 bands defining the postmedial line much browner. 



Hob. Patagonta, Chubut, Val del Lago Blanco {Thursby), 

 type t j in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 32 millim. 



1G70. Phragmatobia beani. 



Larva. Gibson, Can. Ent. xli. p. 400 (1909). 



Dull green thickly mottled with brown, the sublateral area 

 almost wholly orange, the ventral surface greenish ; an indistinct 

 dull orange dorsal stripe; tubercles black, the bristles faintly 

 barbed; tubercles i. and ii. with the bristles black, iii. black with 

 some white from lower half of iv. and from v., vi. bright rust-red 

 from vii. and viii. dark rust-red ; spiracles black ; head black. 

 Food-plants : Antennaria rosea and Plantago. 5. 



Pupa bluish black with a faint purplish bloom; c remaster round, 

 dark reddish brown, terminating in reddish bristles. 



Cocoon. A thin covering of white silk. 



*1671 a. Phragmatobia czecanousci. 



Hnperbnrea czekanowskii, Gr.-Grschni. Ann. Mus. Petersb. iv. p. 464 

 (1900) ; Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 103, f. IS h. 



Antenna 1 of male with serrations ending in a bristle. 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown and white mixed, 

 the anal tuft pale yellow. Fore wing thinly scaled, dull dark 

 brown ; the veins streaked with white ; a white fascia below costa to 



Fig. 88. — Phragmatobia czecanousci, cS • b 



postmedial line and in submedian interspace to subterminal line ; 

 the antemedial line represented by an oblique white bar from the 



