HrPOlIOIJS. — PTGARCTIA. 415 



Sect. II. Antennae of male minutely serrate and ciliated. 

 *1972. Hypomolis rubricosta. 



TTiraqmatohia ruhricosta, Dogniu, Lep. Loja, p. 51, pi. 4. f. 14 (1891); 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. pp. 246, 911. 



6 . Head and thorax brown ; palpi and slight marks on sides of 

 frons orange-red ; pectus and coxae ochreous and red : tibia) and 

 t-arsi brown ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, slightly 

 sufl'uscd with brown ; tlie costal area tinged with purplish red, with 

 a small black autemedial spot, a larger medial spot, and a sinuous 

 postmedial line from costa to vein ; the inner area tinged with 



Fig. 167. — Hi/pomolis ruhricosta, ^. \. 



purplish, with some darker suffusion before middle and indistinct 

 medial and postmedial lines from submedian fold to inner margin. 

 Hind wing ochreous. 



2 . Fore wing redder, more uniforml}- suffused with brown ; 

 very indistinct antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines angled at 

 middle ; hind wing pale dull crimson. 



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Genus PYGARCTIA. 



Type. 

 Fygarctia, Grote, Can. Ent. iii. p. 124 (1871) abdominalis. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; jwlpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons ; 

 antennie of male bipectiuate with the brandies short; tibiae with the spurs 

 short, fore tibise witli curved apical claw ; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore 

 wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins o, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from towards 

 end of cell. 



A. Fore wing with scarlet fasciaj on costa and inner margin... spraffuei. 



B. Fore wing with orange fa.seia; on costa and imier nuirgin. 



a. Abdomen scarlet virida. 



h. Abdomen orange abdominalis. 



C. Fore wing without fascia; cknans. 



