•403 AECTIADJ5. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, ^'.rj:). 22 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



1963. Apantesis superba. 



Arcfia svperha, Stretcli, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 227, pi. 9. f. 12 (1874) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het, p. 268."' 

 Arctia geneura, Stretch, Proc. Dav. Acad. Sci. ii. p. 270, pi. 9. f. 5 (1878) ; 



KirbV, Cat. Het. p. 268. 



c^ , Head black-brown ; palpi fringed with ochreous white ; frons 

 and back of head with whitish bands ; thorax whitish, with black 

 fasciae on tegulse, patagia, and vertex of thorax ; legs blackish 

 striped with white ; abdomen scarlet with dorsal black fascia, the 

 ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing black-brown ; the costa, a 

 rather narrow fascia in submedian fold, and the inner margin 

 ochreous white ; an oblique subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fascia usually present ; an antemedial spur from costa, often re- 

 duced ; a medial line from below costa to the fascia, where it is 

 joined by a similar postmedial line, and is sometimes continued to 

 inner margin ; a ^-shaped band on terminal area from costa to 

 submedian fascia, connected at two points with the })ostmedial line. 

 Hind wing crimson : black fascioe on costa and inner area, a dis- 

 coidal spot and spots at origin of vein 2 and on middle of vein 1 ; 

 a rather broad terminal band with irregular inner edge. 



Hah. British Columbia, Frascr K. (>S'i!. John), 1 (^ , Vancouver I. ; 

 U.S.A., Colorado. Exp. 34 millim. 



1964. Apantesis villiamsi. (Plate XLYIII. fig. 10.) 



Arctia williamsi, Dodge, Cau. Ent. iii. p. 1G7 (1871) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 268. 

 Arctia dpterminata, Neiim. Pap. i. p. 28 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 208. 

 Arctia diecJcii, Keiim. Eut. Am. tI, p. 62 (1890) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 270. 



(^ . Head and thorax pinkish white ; palpi, sides of frons, vertex 

 of head, and stripes on tegula?, patagia, and thorax black ; antennae 

 brown; pectus and legs pinkish and black; abdomen pinkish, with 

 broad black-brown dorsal stripe, lateral and some sublateral 

 black spots. Fore wing dark brown ; the basal half of costal 

 edge pinkish ; a pinkish fascia above submedian fold not reach- 

 ing termen ; a spot in end of cell and sometimes one at upper 

 angle ; an oblique postmedial band from below costa to the sub- 

 median fascia ; the subterminal band oblique from below costa to 

 above vein 5, then running inwards to the postmedial band at 

 vein 4, then to vein 2 near termen and inwards to submedian fascia. 

 Hind wing brown, with more or less developed pink streaks in cell 

 and submedian fold, a patch beyond the cell; cilia pinkish. 



Ab. 1. determinata . Fore "wing with the spot in cell developed 

 into a band reaching submedian fascia. 



Hah. Br. Columbia; U.S.A., iS'evada, 2^ , Grote Coll., Colorado 

 {Cockerell), 3 d . Exj). 38 millim. 



