390 



ARCTIAD^. 



grey-brown fascia, a lateral series of large black-edged grey-brown 

 spots, the ventral surface white with sublateral and medial series of 

 black-edged grey-brown spots. Fore wing white, mostly covered 

 with black-edged grey-brown markings ; a subbasal spot on costa, 

 slight streaks in cell, and two elongate spots below the cell; ante- 

 medial, medial, and postmedial maciilate bands very oblique towards 

 costa, angled on median nervure and vein 4, then conjoined ; a sub- 

 terminal series of spots conjoined at middle to the postmedial series: 

 a highly and irregularly dentate terminal series of spots. Hind 

 wing black, sometimes with small crimson spots in and below cell ; 

 an oblique series of spots, varying in number, from costa beyond 

 middle to tornus ; a subterminal series of irregular more or less 

 conjoined spots angled inwards in submedian fold. Underside of 

 fore wing with the ground-colour of costal half crimson to beyond 

 middle. 



Hah. Mexico, Durango (Becler), 1 c? , 2 5 type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Ex2}., d 42, $ 56 millim. 



1941. Arachnis aulsea. 



Arachnis auleea, Geyei; Zutr. Ex. Schmett. t. p. 28, ff. 913, 914 (1837); 



Oberth. Et. Ent. Vi. p. Ill, pi. 19. ff. 4, 7; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 



i. p. 98 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 218. 

 Ecpantheria incariiata, VVlk. iii. (>90 (1855). 



Head white ; palpi crimson fringed with white, lower part of frons 

 and antennae blackish, vertex of head grey ; tegulae and patagia grey. 



Fig. 163. — Arachnis aulcsa, cJ . \. 



edged with fine black lines, white at sides ; thorax grey with black 

 lines; pectus and legs white, coxae andfemora above crimson, legs with 

 black bands and crimson spots ; abdomen crimson, with blackish- 

 grey dorsal stripe narrowing towards base and edged by dentate black 

 lines, lateral series of black-edged grey spots sometimes conjoined 

 to the dorsal fascia, the ventral surface white with sublateral and 

 medial series of black-edged grey spots. Tore wing whitish, mostly 

 covered with black-edged grey markings ; a subbasal spot on costa ; 

 a narrow elongate mark in cell and two larger marks below it ; ante- 

 medial, medial, and postmedial maculate bands very oblique towards 

 costa and strongly angled on median nervure and vein 4, conjoined 



