462 



ARCTIAD^. 



crimson patch ; fore coxae and femora crimson ; abdomen dorsally 

 crimson, banded with black except at base, the ventral surface black. 

 Fore wing black, creamy-white subbasal and medial rounded spots 

 in cell extending to just below the cell ; two similar conjoined 

 discoidal spots ; a sinuous subterminal series of small spots, the 

 spot above vein 5 displaced inwards. Hind wing crimson, the base, 

 termen, and cilia black. 



Hab. Madagascak, 4 S type ludifem. Exp. 38 millira. 



Genus EUARCTIA. 



Type. 



Carcinnpyga, Felcl. Reis. Nov. p. 2 (1874), non descr. ; Hmpsn. 



Moths'lnd. iv. p. 492 (189(i) lichenigera. 



Euarctia, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlviii. p. 79 (1887) proserpina. 



Proboscis aborted; palpi porrect to just beyond frons ; antennae of female 

 simple ; tibiae with the spurs short ; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with 

 rough hair. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 

 (') from upper angle; 9 and ]0 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole and 

 emitted together ; ] 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to 

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



A. Hind wing scarlet lichenigera. 



B. Hind wing ochreous proserpina. 



*2057. Euarctia lichenigera. 



Carcinopi/ga lichenigera, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 101. f. 3 (1874); Hmpsn. 

 Moths'ind. ii. p. 36, & iv. p. 492 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 911. 



2 . Head and thorax grey-brown ; antennae black ; abdomen 

 crimson above, black at sides, the black expanding dorsally on 



Fig. 202. — Euarctia licheniqera, J . 

 (From Moths Ind. iv. f. 260.) 



terminal segment. Fore wing yellow-grey irrorated with black ; 

 the base yellow ; five transverse yellow bands with waved edges, 

 the postmedial band excurved round end of cell. Hind wing 

 crimson ; a black spot at end of cell ; two elongate subterminal 

 patches and a small spot above vein 1. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Ladak, Exp. 70 millim. Typet in 

 Coll, Rothschild. 



