460 



AKCTIAD^. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing ■«ith the markings orange-yellow. 



a. petrcsa. Fore wing with the markings whitish. — U.S.A. 

 6. ccrspitis. Fore wing with the markings orange-yellow. 



Hah. EimoPE, Britain, France, Germany, Zeller Coll., Switzer- 

 land, Zeller and Frey Colls., Norway, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; 

 Caucasus, IJ , 2 5 , Zeller Coll. ; Amur, 5 J , 3 $ ; Turkestan, Knku- 

 Noor, 1 S ; Japan, Oiwake (Pn/er), 4 cJ , 2 5 , (Fenton) 3 J , types 

 leitcomera, macromera, and melanomera ; Alaska, 1 5 , Grote Coll. ; 

 Br. Colombia; Canada; U.S.A., Colorado {Ld. Derby, Coclcerell), 

 4 (5,3 5 , type pe^rosa, California. Exj). 36-46 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 41 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 263, pi. 74. f. 2. 



Black ; hair black or dark brown ; on somites 4-6 bright red- 

 brown, sometimes reddish on sides ; head black. Food-plants, 

 Mijosotis, Plantago, etc. 8-4. 



Genus EUCHARIA. 



Type. 



Eu€}iaria,'E.\\hr\. Verz. p. 181 (1827) festiva. 



Ammobiota, Wllgra. Skand. Het. ii. p. 304 (1880) festiva. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to well beyond the frons ; head, 

 thorjix, and abdomen clothed with woolly hair ; antennae of male with moderate 

 branches, of female with short branches, the shaft roughly scaled above ; tibios 

 smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from just 

 above angle ; 6 from just below upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 1] free. Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle of 

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



2055. Eucharia festiva. 



Bomhyx festiva, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. ii. (4) pp. 416, 437 (1766) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 264. 

 Bombyx hebe, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. (2) p. 820 (1767) ; Esp. Schmett. iii. p. 181 , 



pi. 34. ff. 1-4 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. If. 129, 296 ; Godt. Lep. Er. iv. 



p. 306, pi. 31. ff. 1, 2 ; Mill. Icones Lep. ii. p. 17, pi. 53. ff. 1, 3; Staud. 



Cat. p. 57. 

 Thalmna monacha, Fourcr. Ent. Paris, ii. p. 260 (1785). 

 Chelonia interrogationia, Men. Cat. Lep. Pet. iii. p. 147, pi. 15. f. 1 (1863) 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 266. 

 Arcfia hebe, var. sartha, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlviii. p. 82 (1887) ; Hour. 



Berl. ent. Zeit. xxxii. p. 497, pi. 7. ff. 5-7. 

 Arctia hebe, ab. albicans, Euchs, Jarb. Nass. Yer. iii. p. 128 (1899). 



Fig. 200. — Eucharia festiva, (^ . 



Head and thorax velvety blue-black ; edges of tegula? crimson ; 

 fore coxae crimson with black spots ; abdomen blue-black, with 



