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ab. lusltantca, Spiiler, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 135 (1006) ; Seitz, Gr.-Schm. 



pal. ii. p. 98, pi. 18 b. 

 ah.jettneti, Oberth. Et. L£p. Comp. v. i. p. 130 (1911), & vi. p. 321, 



pi. cxiv. f. 1014. 

 Fore wing with the white markings tinged with red. 

 ab. iiigrociUata, Hffm. Eat. Rdsch. xxix. p. 157 (1912). 

 Hind wing with the cilia dark. 



vai'S. Oberth. Et. Lep. Comp. vi. pp. 320-2, pi. oxi cxvi. ff. 999-1026 

 (1912). 

 Arctia raja, amboinensis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (8) xviii. p. 484 (1916). 

 Amhoina, tvpe t d\ 2 in Cull. Swinhoe. These specimens are 

 exactly like many of those from Europe, and the locality is 

 certainly wrong. 



Arctia caja, parva, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 181 (1910). 

 d- A small form; fore wing with the antemedial white band 

 extending to subrnedian fold and the medial bar to median nervure. 

 Labrador, type f o* in Coll. Rothschild. 

 subsp. americana : — 



Egg. Gibson, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 321 (1900). 



Semiovoid, pale yellowish, smooth, shiny. 



Larva. Stage I. Creamy white ; head black; each somite with 

 transverse series of black tubercles with long hairs, black on dorsum, 

 silverv at sides; thoracic shield black. 



Stage II. Dirty yellowish white, marked as before. 



Stage III. Blackish grey ; a dorsal white stripe with yellowish 

 red doreal line ; a lateral yellowish white band with a reddish tinge. 



Stage IV. Black ; the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th somites with reddish 

 hair mixed with some black and silvery hair ; the dorsal band and 

 line obsolete ; stigmatal band interrupted. 



Stage V. Black, the anterior segments rusty ; the warts of dorsal 

 area white at apex. , 



Stage VI. The tubercles with long silvery white hairs and also 

 short white bristles, on thoracic segments the bristles are rusty red 

 with only a few silvery hairs ; the bristles below the stigmata fawn 

 coloured. 



Stage VII. Black with rusty red sides, the 1st segment with 

 transverse dorsal patch of rusty bristles turning down over the face ; 

 tubercles whitish with black bristles and silvery hair from those 

 above spiracles. Food-plant, Ghenopodium album. 8-10. 



Arctia caja var. pliceosoma. 



Larva. Wileman, Phil. Journ. Sci. xii. p. 242, pi. ii. ff. 10-13 (1917). 



2060. Arctia tibetica, insert : — 

 ab. pulchrior, Seitz, Gr.-Sohm. pal. ii. p. 98 (1910). 

 Fore wing with the markings larger ; hind wing with the discal 

 spot and subterminal band not interrupted. 



ab. aurantiaca, Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 98 (1910) 



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