ARCTIA. 465 



Oiwake (Pn/er), 1 $ , Tokio (Fenton), 1 c^ , 2 $ , type auripennU; 

 Yokohama {Jonas," Pry er, Lewis), type $ phceosoma, Nikko(J/«?-ies), 

 1 J, 2 2 ; Alaska; Vancottver I., 1 J , 1 $ ; Br. Columbia: 

 U.S.A., N.E. States, Buffalo, 1 J , 1 ? , Grote Coll. 



Subsp. 2. utahemh, H. Edw. Ent. Am. ii. ].. 1G6 (1887). 

 Head and tegulse crimson, the latter with a broad white band in 

 front; abdomen scarlet ; liind wing yellow. 

 Hab. U.S.A., Utah, Colorado (Bruce), 1 6 ■ 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 42 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. p. 2(18, pi. 71. i'. 1. 



Black ; hairs very long, black and grey, browner on sides and on 

 1st and 2nd somites reddish brown ; head black. Food-plants : 

 Urlica, Plantar/0, etc. 8-5, 



2060. Arctia tibetica. 



Arciia thihctica, Felil. Eeis. Nov. pi. HH. f. 12 (1874) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 



ii. p. 17 ; Kirby, Cat, Het. p. 2l)<.). 

 Arctia siittadra, Moore. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 39.") ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 16 : 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 26.3. 

 Arctia cajula, Stand. Ent. Mo. Mag. xxii. p. 258 (1886) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 259. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi whitish, brown at tips 

 and fringed with scarlet below : antenna^ black, with the basal joint 



Fig. 203. — Arctia tiJietica, J. |. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



scarlet ; tegulaj edged with scarlet and white in front and at sides ; 

 patagia with whitish outer edge ; thorax with scarlet stripes ; legs 

 striped with white, the femora scarlet above ; abdomen blue- black, 

 with scarlet segmental lines and anal ttift. Fore wing red-brown ; 

 a small white subbasal spot below oosta and a patch below the cell 

 with two brown spots on it ; an antcmedial often interrupted band 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold where it is angled, and ending 

 on vein 1 ; an oblique medial wedge-shaped bar from costa to median 

 uervure ; a small postmedial spot below vein 2 ; an oblique band 

 from costa beyond middle to tornus with very irrt'gidar edges, often 

 giving off a spur on inner side at vein 3 towards inner margin ; some 

 spots or a maculate band from costa before a])ex bent outwards to 

 near termen at vein 6, then inwards to join the postmedial bund at 

 vein 4. Hind wing scarlet ; an oblique antemedial band from costa 

 to submedian fold, with a spot below it on vein 1 ; a discoidal point 

 usually present ; a large irregular subterminal spot from costa to 



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