242 AECTIAD^.. 



Ab. 1. campestrls. Fore -winj? with the medial black patch 

 extending to median nervure only 5 the black on underside ex- 

 tending to costa. 



Hah. Europe, Alps, Zeller & Frey Colls., Urals ; Altai. Ea^p. 

 70 millim. 



Z«rra. Kirbj, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p._ 103. 



Dark brown, with some greenish-yellow white -tipped hairs. 

 Food-plants, Cotoneaster vulgaris, etc. 



*1669. Phragmatobia ? parvula. 



Jrrtiapamila, Feld. Reis. Not. pi. 100. f. 24 (1874) ; Hnipsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 17 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 277. 



S . Head crimson ; the antennae dark ; thorax and abdomen 

 brown, the latter with pale segmental rings. Fore wing pale brown ; 

 the costal area crimson to the postmedial line ; the base black, 

 emitting a fascia on inner margin to middle ; a black discoidal 

 spot ; a subterminal fuscous band angled outwards at vein 4, then 

 incurved ; cilia crimson. Hind wing deep crimson ; the base and 

 inner area black; a black discoidal spot; a subterminal waved 

 black band. 



Hab. N.W. HiMALATAs (StoliczJin). Exp. 28 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me, the type is lost. 



*1670. Phragmatobia beani. (Plate XLIIT. fig. 7.) 



Antarctia beanii, Neum. Can. Ent. xxiii. p. 123 (1891) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 908. 

 Antarctia beanii, \ar. fiiscosa, Neum. Can. Ent. xxiii. p. 124 (1891). 



2 . Bright red-brown ; head, tegulte, and legs tinged with 

 crimson ; abdomen fulvous. Fore wing with broad Y-shaped fuscous 

 medial hand forming a large fork towards costa ; a curved sub- 

 terminal band formed of conjoined spots. Hind wing dull crimson, 

 with indistinct medial fuscous band angled at lower angle of cell ; 

 an interrupted maculate subterminal band. 



Ab. l.fuscosa. Fore wing uniform fuscous brown without trace 

 of the ground-colour. 



Hah. U.S.A., N. Eocky Mountains, Laggan, in Coll. Schaus. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennas of male bipectinate, with very short branches. 



*1671. Phragmatobia yarrowi. 



Arctia yarrowii. Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. i. p. 221, pi. 9. f. 7 (1874) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 257. 

 Arctia remlssa, H. Edw. Ent. Am. iii. p. 184 (1888) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 258. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen jet-black ; tegulse and a patch on 

 patagia ochreous white; femora orange-red above ; tibiae at extremity 



