402 AECTIADJE. 



oblique from cosfca to above vein 5, then running inwards to the 

 postmedial band at vein 4, then to termen at vein 2, and inwards 

 to submediau fascia. Hind wing yellow, with some black below 

 middle of cell and a discoidal lunule; the inner and terminal areas 

 black, the latter intersected by a curved yellow line from vein 4 

 to termen at submedian fold, and a slight line at submedian fold ; 

 cilia ochreous. 



Ab. 1. anna. Abdomen without ochreous stripes ; fore wing with- 

 out costal ochreous stripe or medial band across the cell; the markings 

 towards apex not extending to costa, and the veins not streaked 

 with ochreous. Hind wdng wholly black. 



Bah. U.S.A., Atlantic States, 1 cJ . Exp. 46 millim. 



Ejg. Pack. J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 178 ; Dyar, Psyche, 1897, p. 53. 



Conoidal, flattened at base and concave ; yellowish white, shining, 

 the reticulations very fine, rounded, with shallow pits between. 



Larva. Stage 1. Head bilobed, black-brown, the clypeus pale ; 

 cervical shield narrow, dusky ; body whitish with long dark setae ; 

 warts pale, large ; the subprimary warts absent, but wart iii. on 

 abdomen with two hairs ; somite 12 with four hairs on subdorsal 

 wart. 



Stage 2. Body shaded with red-brown round the dusky warts, 

 which are large except i. and vi. ; hairs stiff, black, with a few 

 longer ones posteriorly from subdorsal wart on somite 12. 



Stage 3. Bodj' greyish mottled with brown ; the warts black ; a 

 pale dorsal line ; hair abundant, black, barbuled. 



Stage 4. Body black-brown, with faint pale dorsal and lateral 

 lines ; warts shining black with slight pale rings at base ; somite 

 12 with two long white hairs. . 



Stage 5. Head pale brownish, with black shades on the lobes in 

 front ; mouth brown ; body black ; hair stiff, black, with the two 

 from posterior warts long and white ; fine pale dorsal and lateral 

 lines ; a whitish dash below wart iii., and the bases of warts iii. to 

 V. slightly reddish. 



Stage 6. Head black; base of antenna? and a line above mouth 

 whitish ; body velvety black ; all the hair black. 



Stage 7. Head at sides, clypeus, sutures, and mouth brownish ; 

 warts with dull luteous rings at base. 



Stage 8. Head as in stage 6. Food-plants, various low plants. 



1956. Apantesis quenseli. 



Bomhjx quenselU, Payk. Skriv. af Nat. Selsk. ii. 2, p. 99, pi. 2. f. 2 (1793) ; 

 Geyer, Eur. Schmett. fF. 353-355; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suupl. iii. p. 51, 

 pi. 4. f. 3; Geyer, Zutr. ex. Schmett. v. p. 14, ff. 847, 848; Stretch, 

 Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 222, pi. 9. f. 8 ; Staud. Cat. p. 58 ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 270. 



Bombyx strigosa, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. (1) p. 454 (1793). 



Euprepia gelida, Moschl. Stett. ent. Zeit. ix. p. 174 (1849); Sch^yen, Arch. 

 Math. Naturv. v. p. 175, f. 3. 



Chelonia liturata, Men. Bull. Phys.-Math. Pet. xvii. p. 500 (1859); id. 

 Cat. Lep. Pet. iii. p. 149, pi. 15. f. 4 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 271. 



