ATANTESIS. 405 



(FloJir), 1 5, Mexico (Godman), 1 c? , Atoyac, 1 c? , Guerrero 

 {B. 21. Smith), 1 $ , Durango (Becker), 2 d" , Putzcuaro (Godman), 

 Id", 1 $; Guatemala (Champion, Rodriguez, >Salle, Conradt), 

 5 J , 3 5 ; Costa IIica (Underwood), 5 c? , 4 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. 38-42 millim. 



Larva with tlie hair rcd-hrowu, 



*1959. Apantesis bolanderi. 



Arctia holandcri. Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 76, pi. 3. f. 13 (1872); 

 Kirbj, Cat. Ilet. p. 2(;8. 



6 . Head and thorax whitish ; palpi ahove and sides of frons 

 black-brown ; antennae wdth the branches brown ; vertex of head 

 with brown spot : tegulas, patagia, and thorax with brown stripes ; 

 legs striped with brown ; abdomen orange, with short dorsal black 

 bands and lateral series of spots, the ventral surface banded black 

 and yellowish white. Fore wung dark brown ; the costa whitish 

 to bej'ond middle, expanding into slight spots near base and before 

 middle ; a fascia in submedian fold emitting a sliglit spur on median 

 nervure ; a slight streak on base of vein 1 and a fascia on inner 

 margin ; an oblique medial line from costa to below the submedian 

 fascia, where it is nearly joined by the postmedial line, or extending 

 to inner margin ; the subterminal line oblique from costa to near 

 termen at vein 5, then retracted to lower angle of cell, bent out- 

 wards to near termen at vein 2, then inwards to tlie submedian 

 fascia ; cilia white at tips. Hind wing scarlet or yellow tinged 

 with scarlet ; three subterminal brown spots and a narrow terminal 

 band from apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with brown streaks in and below cell and on 

 vein 1 ; a spot beyond the cell ; the terminal band wide, confluent 

 with the subterminal spots, and extending to vein 1. 



H(d). U.S.A., llocky Mts. and Sierra Nevada. Exp. 30-34 millim. 



Egcj. Dyar, P. Bost. Soc. xxvi. p. 153 (1895). 



Kounded, conoidal, flattened at base, smooth, shining orange- 

 yellow : diam. 55 millim. ; laid without attachment to any object. 



Larva. 1st stage. Head bilobed, black ; labrum pale ; mouth 

 brown ; body whitish, the warts, cervical shield, and feet blackish, 

 the warts each with a long stiff hair ; hair black dorsally, pale 

 laterally. 



2nd stage. Body brownish, dark subdorsally, deflning a whitish 

 dorsal lino ; warts large and black, with numerous stiff sliort hairs. 



3rd stage. Posterior part of l)ody with some long whitish hairs. 



4th stage. Head entirely black with a few hairs ; warts and 

 subdorsal area black, leaving pale dorsal and sul)dorsal lines ; hair 

 short, stiff', black, dorsally whitish, subventrally with three or four 

 long white hairs posteriorly. 



5th stage. An orange-red dorsal lino ending at cervical shield 

 and anal plate. 



6th stage. Wholly deep black except the bright red dorsal 

 line, which is ycliuwish at incisions of segments ; hair barbed 



