346 AKCTIAD^, 



Stage 5. Hair long and slender, some towards extremity very 

 long ; dorsal hair black-brown ; warts dark, the lateral ones 

 reddish ; lateral hair reddish ; spiracles buft-coloured, prominent. 



Pood-plant, Flantago. 



1869. Estigmene prima, (Plate XLYIII. fig. 21.) 

 Spilosmiia prima, Sloss. Ent. Am. v. p. 40 (1889) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 228. 



5 . White ; palpi orange, black at tips ; femora orange above ; 

 fore tibiae streaked with orange and fuscous, the mid and hind tibiae 

 at extremity and tarsi tinged with fuscous ; abdomen dorsally and 

 laterally orange-yellow except basal and two terminal segments, 

 dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. Eore wing with 

 antemedial series of black points angled below median nervure ; a 

 medial series of sj)ots obtusely angled on median nervure ; a black 

 spot at lower angle of cell ; a maculate postraedial line strongly 

 excurved from below costa to vein 3, then oblique ; a spot on costa 

 towards apex ; an oblique series of short streaks on each side of the 

 veins from apex to vein 5, and a subterminal series from vein 5 to 

 inner margin ; the termen tinged with fuscous. Hind wing with 

 discoidal lunule ; a subterminal series of spots below costa, above 

 and below vein 5, and three towards tornus. 



Hah. U.S.A., New York, 1 $ , N. England, northwards. Exp. 

 46 millim. 



1870. Estigmene albida. 



Leiicarctia albida, Stretch, Zvg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 203, pi. 8. f. 22 (1874) ; 

 Wheeler's Eep. W. 100th Merid. v. p. 798, pi. 40. ff. 4, 5 ; Druce, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 117; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 227. 



Pure white ; palpi orange below, black above ; antennre black, 

 the shaft annulated with white ; fore coxae orange and black ; 

 femora orange above ; tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 orange above, white at base, extremity, and on ventral surface, a 

 dorsal series of short black bands and lateral and sublateral series 

 of points. Fore wing immaculate, or with black point at lower 

 angle of cell and rarely a point ou costa towards apex. Hind wing 

 immaculate, or with black discoidal point and with subterminal 

 points above vein 5 and below veins 2 and 1. 



Hah. CALiFORsri.i ; Costa Eica (Rogers, Van Patten), 8 c? , 3 5 > 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Exj^. 50 millim. 



This may be only an extreme form of the white variety of 

 E. acrcea. 



1871. Estigmene antigone. (Plate XLVII. fig. 22.) 



Spilosoma congrua, Wlk. iii. 669 (1885), S ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 234. 

 Spilosmna anfiqone, Streck. Rep. Chief of Engineers, 1877, App. SS. 



p. 1860 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 226. 

 Spilosoma athena, Streck. Suppl. ii. p. 4 (1899). 



S . "White ; head with a yellowish tinge ; palpi streaked with 



