LEPTARCTIA. 221 



Lepfarctia stretchii. Bull. A. M. X. H. (b) viii. p. 312 (1881) ; French, Can. 



Ent. xxi. p. 222, f. 12 ; id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ix. p. 495, pi. 9. f. I ; 



Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 275. 

 Leftarctia fiUmfasciata, Bull. A. M. N. II. (5) viii. p. 31.'5 (1884) ; French, 



Can. Ent. xxi. p. 223, f. 17 : id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ix. p. 497, pi. 9. 



f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 270. 

 Leptarctia boisduvalii, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) viii. p. 313 (1881) ; French, 



Can. Ent. xxi. p. 222, f. 13 ; id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (G) ix. p. 496, pi. 9. 



f. 2 ; Kirbv, Cat. Ilet. p. 275. 

 Leptarctia latifasdata , Butl. A. M. N. IF. (5) viii. p. 313 (1881) ; French, 



Can. Ent. xxi. p. 22:^, f. 17 ; id. Ann. Sue. Ent. Fr. ((5) ix. p. 497, pi. 9. 



f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 276. 

 Leptarctia albifa.^cia, French, Can. Ent. xxi. p. 223. f. 15 (1889) ; id. Ann. 



Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ix. p. 496, pi. 9. f. 4 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. ]). 276. 

 Leptarctia occidentalis, French, Can. Ent. xxi. p. 223, f. 16 (1889) ; id. Ann. 



Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ix. p. 496, pi. 9. f. 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 27<). 

 Leptarctia wrightii. French, Can. Ent. xxi. p' 224, ff. 18. 19 (1889); id. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ix. p. 498, pi. 9. ff. 7, 8; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 276. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black mixed with grey hair ; white 

 stripes above the eyes and on shoulders ; femora scarlet above ; 



Fig. 128. — Leptarctia californicB, c5" • t- 



abdomen with orange lateral stripes, the ventral surface whitish. 

 Fore wing blackish suffused with grey ; a short white streak on 

 base of median nervure ; obscure antemedial, postmedial, and 

 subterminal dark lines with some orange spots on them, the two 

 former angled on median nervure, the last irregularly dentate, the 

 postmedial line with whitish mark on its outer edge at costa. Hind 

 wing orange-yellow ; some conjoined black streaks at base, on 

 inner margin developed into a fascia extending to the medial band, 

 which is interrupted in discal, and usually in submedian fold ; a 

 subterminal maculate band conjoined in places to a black terminal 

 band extending from apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Una. Itather paler ; hind wing without medial band. 



Ab. 2. fulvqfasciata. Hind wing black from base to the medial 

 band. 



Ab. 3. decia. Hind wing orange-rod, with interrupted black 

 medial band. 



Ab. 4. latifasdata. Hind wing orange-red, black from base to 

 the medifil band. 



Ab. 5. dimid'tata. Hind wing wholly black or with interrupted 

 orange-red subterminal band. 



