PHBAGMATOBIA. 237 



Arctia erschoffi, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xvii. p. 29, pi. i. f. 33 (1882) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 2(i."). 

 Arctia erschoffi, vnr. /ergka/ia, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlviii. p. S2 (1887). 

 Arctia erschoffi, var. issyka, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1. p. 25 (188U). 

 Arctia mongolica, Alph. Stett. eut. Zeit. xlix. p. 67 (1888) ; Horn. Mem. 

 vi. p. 13, pi. i. f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 205. 



S (erschoffi). Head and thorax black mixed with grey and yel- 

 lowish hair ; antenna}, tibioe, and tarsi whitish ; abdomen with 

 dorsal black band diminishing towards extremity and lateral and 

 sublateral series of spots. Fore wing fuscous black ; white streaks 

 from base on costa, below median uervure, and on inner margin to 

 the antemedial band, which is angled in submedian fold, the streak 

 below the cell being continued to termen ; a medial band from 

 costa to submedian fascia excurved in cell ; the postmedial band 

 angled at vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal band more or less 

 angled inwards below costa, then outwards to near termen above 

 vein 5, then inwards to the postmedial band at vein 4, outwards to 

 terraen at vein "2, and inwards to submedian fascia; cilia white. 

 Hind wing scarlet; some blackish at base and more or less developed 

 subterminal black spots from costa to vein 5 and on veins 2 and 1 ; 

 cilia yellow. 



2 with the wings partly aborted. 



Ab. 1. ferghana. Fore wing with the markings obsolete toward 

 inner margin and the subterminal band not continued to submedian 

 fascia. — Alai. 



Ab, 2. issi/l-a. Fore wing with the markings yellow ; hind wing 

 with the subterminal spots sometimes large and conjoined. — Issykul. 



Ab. 3. mongolica. Tegulae pinkish in front ; abdomen crimson ; 

 fore wing with yellowish antemedial spot on costa ; hind wing with 

 some antemedial black points. — Mongolia, Oros. 



Ab. 4. kindermanni. Hind wing orange. — Urals, Mongolia. 



Hub. Urals ; Sibeeia, Altai, 2 J ; Mongolia, Tura, 1 J , Tian- 

 Shan, 3 d , 2 $ , Alai, Issykul. £'^^j. 28 millim. 



1660. Phragmatobia glaphyra. 



Euprepia glaphyra, Ev. Bull. Mose. xvi. p. 544, pi. x. f. 4 (1843) ; Staud. 



Stett. ent. Zeit. xlii. p. 402; Heri-.-SeliafT. Schmett. Eur. vi. p. .52, f. 165; 



Staud. Cat. p. 58; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 265. 

 Arctia glapyhra, var. manni, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 29, pi i. 



f. 32 (1882). 

 Arctia (jlaphyra, var. gratiosa, Gr. Grschm. Rom. Mem. ir. p. .533, pi. xi.\. 



f. 5 (1800). 

 Arctia glauca, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 251, pi. 3. f. 5 (1892) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 912. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black mixed with ochreous-white 

 hair ; shaft of antennrc whitish a])ove; legs streaked with ochreous; 

 abdomen banded with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing 

 black-brown ; the costa to middle and veins partially streaked with 

 ochreous white ; a white fascia in sul)median fold, expanding to cell 

 at base; traces of an antemedial lino ohli(iuo from costa to sub- 

 median fascia, where it is strongly angled ; a quadrate patch iu end 



