APANTESIS. 457 



Hind wing crimson pink, the costal area fuscous; a spot at upper 

 angle of cell and slight diffused streaks below basal half of cell and 

 vein 1 ; subterminal spots at discal fold and vein 2 conjoined to a 

 terminal band with irregular inner edge. 



ab. 1. ophir. Head and thorax without pink; fore wing with 

 the medial bar extending to the submedian fascia. 



Huh. U.S.A., Utah, Stockton {Spalding), L 6 , Eureka (Spald- 

 ing), 3 $ . Exp. 42 millim. 



1965 a. Apantesis figurata. 



Nemeophila figurata, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 12. f. 4 (1773). 



TSwplagia ceramica, Hiibn. Verz. p. 180 (1827). 



Arctia f-pallida, Streck. Kep. Cheif, Eng. 1878, App. S. S. p. 1S60, 



pi. 2. f. 3. 

 Arctia excelsa, Neum. Papilio, iii. p. 70 (1883). 



is a distinct species. 



ab. pretiosa, Nixon, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. xiii. p. 232 (1911). 



Hind wing with the red replaced by yellow. 



var. moierra, Dyar, Insec. Inscit. Menstr. ii. p. 161 (1914). — Texas. 



Larva. Black to rusty brown, sometimes with yellow dorsal 

 stripe. Food-plants : any low-growing plant. 



1966. Apantesis vittata. 



E</(J. Gibson, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 369 (1900), & Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 50 

 (1902) ; Seifert, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 82, Avars, pi. xi. ; Barnes 

 & McD. Can. Ent. xliv. p. 189. 



Semi-ovoid, shiny white, smooth. 



Larva. Stage I. Dull cream-colour ; head brownish black ; each 

 somite with transverse series of black tubercles bearing long black 

 and silvery hairs and surrounded by pale brown. 



Stage II. Blackish or pale brown with a pale dorsal stripe; 

 a lateral series of brownish blotcbes ; bristles on dorsal area 

 black, on somites 4-11 with one or two whitish hairs, the other 

 tubercles with blackish and whitish bristles; stigmata brown. 



Stage III. Blackish with a pale yellowish stripe on dorsum. 



Stage IV. The dorsal yellow stripe generally absent; the bristles 

 of stigma tal and ventral tubercles rusty. 



Stages V., VI. Somite 1 with reddish dorsal bristles turning 

 down over face ; dorsal stripe absent. 



Stage VII. Some specimens with clear ochre yellow dorsal stripe 

 expanding at middle of each somite, replaced in others by elongate 

 spots. 



Food-plants: Taraxacum, Plantago. 



1967. Apantesis nais. 



Larva. French, Papilio, ii. p. 179 ; Seifert, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 4 (1902% 

 & vars. pi. ii. 



Yellowish brown to blackish ; dorsal stripe flesh-colour or reddish, 

 often obscured on thoracic or terminal segments or quite obsolete : 



