450 LTTIIOSTADJE. 



with broad dorsal white stripe, narrower subdorsal stripe, and 

 slightly waved subspiracular stripe. Food-plants : lettuce and 

 dandelion. 



1952. Apantesis arge. 



Larva. Seifert, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p, 1, & vars. pi. 1. 



Dark grey to brown with darker shades ; flesh-coloured dorsal, 

 subdorsal, and substigmatal bands, the last angulate ; clothed with 

 long soft pale hairs. 



1953. Apantesis ornata, insert (syn.) : — 



Arctia sJiastanensis, French, Can. Ent. xxi. pp. 35, 162 (1889). 



1959, Apantesis bolanderi, insert: — 



Arctia blakei, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 523, pi. 5. f. 2 (1864); 

 Barnes & McD. Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. N. Amer. i. 4. pi. iii. ff. 1-8, 



which has precedence. 



No. 1963. A. superba, Stretch, is perhaps a race of A. blacei and 

 elongata, Stretch, is its form with yellow hind wing. 



No. 1964. A. villiamsi, Dodge, and its various races are also 

 possibly forms of A. blacei, and A. determinata, Neum., is possibly 

 the male of villiamsi. 



1961 will stand as Apantesis nevadensis. 



A. geneura Streck., of which incorrupta H. Edw. is a synonym, 

 is a race of A. nevadensis, and ochracea Neum. —sulpliurica Neum. 

 is a form with yellow hind wings. 



Larva. Barnes & McD. Can. Ent. xliv. p. 188. 



1964 a. Apantesis tocele. (Plate LXI1I. fig. 15.) 



Apantesis tocele, Barnes & McD. Can. Ent. xlii. p. 208 (1910) ; id. Contr. 



Nat. Hist. Lep. N. Am. i. 4. pi. iii. f. 3 & xiii. f. 4. 

 Apantesis tocele, var. ophir, Barnes & McD. Can. Ent. xlii. p. 209 (1910); 



id. Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. N. Am. i. 4. pi. iii. ft'. 2, 9. 



6 ■ Head and thorax black-brown; palpi fringed with pink hair; 

 Brons and vertex of head with pink patches ; tegulse and patagia 

 with pink streaks at sides ; coxa' and femora witli some pink, the 

 tibia' streaked and tarsi ringed with pinkish white; abdomen 

 black-brown with subdorsal crimson fascia' becoming whitish on 

 anal segment and ventral segmental whitish bands connected by a 

 maculate streak. Fore wing brown, the disk black-brown ; pinkish 

 white subbasal, anteinedial, and medial marks on costa and fascia' 

 in subniedian fold and on inner margin to beyond middle; an 

 oblique medial pinkish white bar across the cell anil oblique 

 postmedial line from vein 6 to the fascia in subniedian fold; sub- 

 terminal line.arising below the costa, strongly angled outwards at 

 discal fold ami vein 2 and inwards to the postmedial line at lower 

 angle of cell and to the subniedian fascia where it terminates. 



