ARDICES. 



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Genus ARDICES. 



Type. 



Ardices, Wlk. iii. 709 (1855) glatignyi. 



Proboscis aborted; palpi porrect to just beyond frontal tuft and fringed 

 below with long hair ; bead, thorax, and abdomen clothed with long hair ; eyes 

 sparsely clothed with long hair ; antennie bipectinate with the branches moderate. 

 Fore wing with veins 3 and o from close to angle of cell ; G from upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9, lU stalked ; 1 1 free. Iliad wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle 

 of cell ; (), 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Hind wing with the ground-colour crimson curvcUa. 



B. Hind wing with the ground-colour white glatignyi. 



1674. Ardices curvata. 



Bombyx curvata, Donov. Ins. N. Holland, pi. 34. f. 3 (1805); Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 2(;3. 

 Chelonui fuacimda, Doubl. Eyre's Centr. Austr. i. p. 438, pi. 5. f. 4 (1815) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 263. 

 Arctia vittaia, Moschl. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 351 (1872) ; Kirby, 0<it. 



Het. p. 2G3. 

 Phaos vigens, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 383 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 262. 

 Phaos nigriceps, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 383 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 262. 

 Phaos notatum, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 383 ; Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 263. 

 Phaos nexum, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 384. 



PhoA^s lactcatiim, Butl. P.Z. S. 1878, p. 384; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 263. 

 Spilosoma brisbanensis, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.\\'. (2) iv. p. 1(JS4 (1890) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 263. 

 Spilosoma qicinqmfascia, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) iv. p. 1085 (1890) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 263. 



Fig. 136. — Ardices curvata, cf. \. 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; palpi, sides of froris, 

 antennae, and sometimes the vertex of head black; patagia and 

 vertex of thorax with more or less developed black stripes ; pectus 

 and legs ochreous and black, the femora crimson above; abdomen 

 crimson above, witli dorsal series of short bands, the ventral surface 

 ochreous, with sublateral series of black spots or with series of 

 ventral bands. Fore wing ochreous, with black fascia on basal 

 part of costa, a fascia above basal half of vein 1 ; streaks below 

 middle and end of cell, spots between bases of veins 3 and 5 ; a 

 discoidal spot and usually one in middle of cell, a more or less 

 developed curved postmcdial spot and a more or less developed 

 subtcrminal series ; or the black markings largely developed and 

 more or less confluent ; or the wing black, with ochreous streaks 



