488 



ARCTIAD^. 



each segment with black hairs, the lateral ones with shorter white 

 hair. Pood-plant, Myrica gale. 



Subsp. 1, venusta,'Dsi\m. Anal. Ent. p. 51 a823) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 346. 

 Tinea hella, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 109, C, D (1777). 

 Deiopeia speciosa, Wlk. ii. 568 (1854) ; Stretch, Zjg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 57, 



pi. 2. f. 16. 



Thorax and fore wing with the orange markings replaced bj' 

 crimson or orange-red ; hind wing with the apical patch usually 

 much reduced, and the terminal band usually narrowing regularly 

 to a point at vein 1. 



Hab. Jamaica (Gosse), 1 c? , 3 $ ; Cuba (Ruiz), 1^,1$: Haiti 

 (Tiveedie), 1 5 ; Antigua (Gregory), 1 5 . Type in Mus. Holmiae. 



Larva. Pack. Aim. N.Y. Ac. viii, p. 82. 



Orange, with black bands except on ventral surface, with irregular 

 edges indented anteriorly by dorsal and subdorsal orange spots ; 

 hairs black, white at sides ; head red-brown. 



*2092. Utetheisa galapagensis. (Plate L. fig. 12.) 



Euchelia galapagensis, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Men. iv. p. 161 (1860) ; Kirbj, 

 Cat. Het. p. 351. 



5 . Grey-white ; head and thorax suffused with brown, leaving 

 a white line round the eyes ; abdomen whiter. Pore wing with 

 the basal area suffused with brown, its outer edge ill-defined and 

 oblique from costa to median nervure ; a medial triangular brown 

 band expanding regularly from costa to inner margin ; two obscure 

 spots on discocellulars and one above them below costa ; an obscure 

 maculate liue beyond the cell from below costa to vein 2, bent 

 inwards below vein 3 ; the postmedial line maculate, curved and 

 more prominent towards inner margin ; termen suffused with 

 brown ; cilia white. Hind wing pale brown, deeper towards 

 termen ; cilia whitish. 



Hah. Galapagos Is., type t $ in Mus. Holmiae. Exj). 34 millim. 



Genus SECUSIO. 



Type. 



Secusio, Wlk. ii. 558 (1854) sfrigafa. 



Gaitara, Wlk. xxvi. 1688(1862) ^Wate. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending more than twice the 

 length of head, the 3rd joint long ; antennie of male bipectinate with moderate 

 branches ; build slender ; tibije with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with vein 

 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 7, 8 to form a short areole. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



Sect. I. (Galtara). Antenna; of female bipectinate. 



A. Abdomen yellowish above on terminal half. 



a. Fore wing without black spots above and balow median 

 nervure at origin of vein 2. 



