498 lithosiadj:. 



defined at sides by deeper buff ; a similar medial band, oblique to 

 median nervure then erect ; a slight black discoidal lunule ; a 

 similar postmedial band excurved to vein 4, then incurved,^ an 

 oblique subterminal bar from costa to vein 4 and a bar from vein 2 

 to inner margin ; cilia black. Hind wing scarlet with, medial 

 black band defined at sides by buff, slightly incurved at vein 2 and 

 not quite reaching inner margin ; a similar postmedial spot on 

 costa and subterminal bars from costa to vein 4 and between veins 

 3 and 1 ; cilia black. 



Rab. E. Siberia. Exp. 40 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



Page 468. Genus ARCTIA, insert :— Type 



Chelonia, Godart, Lep. Fr. iv. p. 299 (1822), nee Al. Brongniart 



Rept. 1800 ciun. 



Epicallia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 182 (1827) villica. 



2059. Arctia caia, insert : — 



ab. phuntasma, Niepelt, Insectenborse, 1905, p. . 



Fore wing uniform creamy white ; hind wing Avithout spots. 

 ab. ubscura, Cockerell, ? ined. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p, 98 (1910). 



futura, Fick. ? ined. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 98 (1910). 



glaseri, Stichel, Berl. Ent. Zeit. liii. p. 191, pi. v. f. 5 (1909). 

 Fore wing dark brown without markings; bind wing black. 



ab. I/tueblirgensis, Machl. -Stein, ? ined. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 98 



(1910). 

 ab. syltica, Wern. ? ined. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 98 (1910). 

 ab. (lealbata, Schultz, ? ined. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 98 (1910). 

 vars. tending towards phantasma. 

 ab. clarki, Tutt, Ent. Rec. xxi. p. 88, pi. v. (1909). 

 var. tending towards obscura. 



ab. rubrodorsallS, Schultz, Ent. Zeitschr. Guben, xxii. p. 1S3 (1908). 

 Abdomen with the spots absent. 



ab. pollens, Schultz, Ent. Zeitschr. Guben, xxii. p. 183 (1908). 

 Fore wing brownish yellow, 

 ab. latcscens, Tutt, Ent. Rec. iii. p. 254 (1892). 



fluva, Aigner, Rovart. L. Buda-Pesth, xiii. p. 74 (1900). 

 Hind wing sulphur yellow. 



ah. standfuSSt, Ruber, ? ined. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 98 (1910). 

 Small specimens obtained by interbreeding, 

 ab. con flv ens, Rebel, Berge'a Schmett. ix. p. 430 (1910); Seitz, Gr.-Schm. 



pal. ii. p. 98, pi. 18 «. 

 Fore wing with the white reduced; hind wing deep red, the 

 spots more or less confluent. — Lake Ladoga. 



