422 



ARCTIAD^. 



c? . Hind wing semihyaline yellowish white, the inner area only 

 tinged with pink. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogota (Stevens), 1 2 *'}'P6 ; Pert;, Riaja (Gar- 

 hpp). Exp., (S 34, 2 48 millim. 



Genus SEIEARCTIA. 



Seirarctia, Pact. Proc. Ent. Soc. Pbilacl. iii. p. 119 (1864) 



Type. 



echo. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, porrect ; bead and tborax clothed 

 with long woolly hair ; antennre of male with moderate branches, of female with 

 very short branches ; fore tibi« with long curved claw on outer side and short 

 ■claw on inner side ; hind tibial with the medial spurs absent. Fore wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 

 stalked; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 

 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing white, with dark streaks on each side of the veins echo. 



B. Fore wing flesh-colour irrorated with black clara. 



*1989. Seirarctia echo. 



PhalcBna echo. Abbot & Smith, Lep. Georgia, ii. pi. 68 (1797); Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 242. 

 Sjnlosoma niohe, Streck. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1884, p. 284 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 227. 



<S . White ; palpi and legs orange, banded with black ; antennae 

 with the branches black ; abdomen with dorsal series of blackish 

 spots, a subdorsal series of orange patches, a lateral series of small 

 black spots and sublateral spots on three medial segments. Fore 

 wing wdth the veins defined on each side by broad brown fasciae ; 



Fig. 171. — Seirarctia echo, J. \. 



a subcostal fascia extending to beyond middle. Hind wing with 

 some brown at extremity of median nervure ; veins 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 

 defined on each side at extremity by short brown streaks. 



2 . Abdomen mostly orange above, the series of black spots 

 much larger ; hind wing without brown at end of cell and with 

 hardly a trace of it at extremity of the veins. 



Ilab. U.S.A., Georgia, Florida. E.vp. 70 millim. 



Efjc/. Pack. Psyche, v. p. 351 ; id. Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci. viii. p. 80. 

 Hemispherical, thin, glassy, rather coarsely pitted with irregularly 

 polygonal rims. 



