458 LTTIIOSTABJB. 



hairs similarly coloured except those of anterior warts of 1st somite 

 directed forward and those directed downwards from and from 

 helow the stigmata which are pale varying from brownish grey to 

 rust red. Food-plants: Taraxacum, Plantago, Rumex, Artemisia. 



*1967ff. Apantesis nundar. (Plate LXIIL fig. 16.) 



Phraamatobia nundar, Dyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xv. p. 105 (1907). 



S • Head and thorax black ; abdomen black with interrupted 

 crimson lateral stripes. The wing black; a broad wdiite fascia in 

 submedian fold from base to near termen; postmedial line fine, 

 white, curved, from costa to the fascia in submedian fold ; cilia 

 with whitish mixed. Hind wing crimson with a narrow terminal 

 black band with sinuous inner edge; the underside with dark 

 discoidal spot with some dark shading beyond it, the terminal band 

 broader and diffused. 



Hab. Mexico, Mexico City. Exp. 34 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 



1968. Apantesis placentia, insert (syn.) : — 



Apantesis sociata, Barnes & McD. J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 149 (1910) ; 

 id. Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. N. Am. i. 4. pi. xiii. f. 6. 



New Mexico, Fort Wingate. 



Larva. Barnes & McD. Can. Ent. xliii. p. 259 ; id. Can. Ent. xliv. p. 135. 



Velvety black, sometimes slightly marbled with grey; an inter- 

 rupted orange-red dorsal stripe, generally obsolete on thoracic 

 somites and often quite absent ; tubercles black and, except i.. very 

 large, rather conical from a quadrate base, shiny, with branches of 

 stir!' black seta 1 ; spiracles black; prolegs pinkish with a few black 

 seta 1 ; head black, the palpi and mouth-parts flesh-coloured. 



1968 a. Apantesis bicolor. (Plate LXIIL fig. 17.) 

 Apantesis bicolor, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xiv. p. 166 (1904). 



C? . 1 lead and I borax black ; abdomen scarlet with dorsal series 

 of large partly conjoined quadrate black spots, a lateral series of 

 somewhat triangular spots, the extremity and ventral surface black. 

 Fore wing uniform black. Hind wing scarlet; the costal area and 

 termen towards apex black ; a subterminal black point helow vein 2. 

 Underside with short scarlet streaks on base of costa of both wings, 

 the ret inaculum scarlet. 



Another specimen has three subterminal spots on hind wing ; a 

 third has the costal halt' of hind wing black ; and a fourth has a 

 Crimson ring on neck, the t'ore wing with pale crimson fascia on costa 

 \o beyond middle, a small white spot at lower angle of cell, the 

 cilia pale, the hind wing with the costal half pale, 



1 1 ah. Bahamas, Abaco (P. A. Meers), 1 J type. Exp. 11 

 millim. 



