A.PANTESTS. 455 



strongly excurved between veins 5 and 3, then very oblique ; a 

 wedge-shaped subterminal patch from costa to vein 5 interrupted 

 by white on the veins and an oblique series of bar-shaped patches 

 from vein 5 to inner margin forming a strong band below vein 3 ; 

 a terminal series of black bars, stronger at apex, middle, and tornus. 

 Hind wing white; an oblique medial series of black spots from 

 costa to submedian fold with two oblique bars beyond it at end of 

 cell ; a subterminal maculate sinuous band, narrowing somewhat at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small spots from apex to below vein 3. 

 Kab. Mexico, Mexico City (Midler). Exp., 6 42, ? 50 

 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing 

 from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



1942. Arachnis picta, insert : — 

 Arachnis hampsoni, Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 86 (1902) for subsp. 2. 



1048. Apantesis virgo. 



Larva. Gibson, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 23 (1902). 



Deep black with tufts of stout black bristles from the dorsal 

 tubercles and reddish bristles from the sublateral and ventral 

 tubercles ; dorsal stripe bright yellow, distinct except on 2nd and 

 13th somites ; head sparsely clothed with short and long black 

 hairs; spiracles yellowish white. 



The mature larva has the spiracles orange ; the dorsal stripe 

 creamy white and less prominent, in many specimens absent. 



1950. Apantesis rectilinea, insert : — 

 Avctla oithona, Stretch, Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 131 (1877), 

 which has precedence. 



1951. Apantesis michabo. 



Larva. Barnes & McD. Can. Ent. xlvii. p. 271. 



Head black, the sutures of the clypeus strongly marked with 

 white ; body dull black dorsally blotched with velvety black ; 

 warts black; a broad pale yellow to orange-yellow dorsal stripe; 

 subdorsal stripe represented by white spots on the anterior edge of 

 each somite, sometimes lengthened posteriorly; a subspiracular 

 waved fuscous-tinged white stripe ; legs and prolegs pale orange ; 

 spiracles ochreous ringed with black ; setoa long and whitish on 

 dorsum with some very long black seta* from tubercle iii., tubercle ii. 

 with veiy long white setae pointing outwards and a shorter black 

 one pointing upwards, the lateral seta? white ; the setae in the last 

 two stages, except the subspiracular seta?, are mostly dull black and 

 only slightly barbed, any white ones on the dorsal and lateral 

 l-egions are very short. 



In the early stages the body is pale grey in the 1st stage, in the 

 2nd stage black-brown dorsally, red-brown laterally ; the 2nd stage 



