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the nerves, the ground is then black, with fulvous squares. Head 

 fulvous ; thorax black, with the shoulders yellow ; scutellura ful- 

 vous ; body fulvous above, with black rings, bluish-black below. 

 Under side of the secondaries as above. Under side of the pri- 

 maries with the spots at the base and of the middle fulvous. 

 San Francisco. 



BOISD. 



5. A. virgo Sm. Abb. Var. Callimorpha pnrthenice Kirby. Figured in 



Sm. Abb. pi. 62 ; Naturalist's Lib. vol. 36, pi. 19. Var. in Faun. 

 Bor. Amer. IV, pi. 5. 



Primaries carneous, fading to reddish buff, and covered with 

 many stripes and lance-shaped spots of black ; secondaries ver- 

 milion-red, with several large angular spots towards the posterior 

 margin. Antennse ferruginous ; thorax fulvous, with three broad 

 black stripes and two small black spots over the eyes. Under side 

 of the abdomen black ; upper side vermilion red, with a row of 

 black spots close together along the top of the back. Larva 

 brown, rather thickly covered with tufts of brown hair. 



Var.? Thorax carneous with five black spots; primaries black, 

 with pale carneous streaks ; secondaries reddish, with five black 

 spots. 



United States. 



NAT. LIBRAKY. 



6. A. virguncula Kirby. Figured in Faun. Bor. Amer. IV, pi. 4. 



Head pallid ; orbit of the eyes and mouth black ; antenna? black, 

 fierrato-pennate ; thorax pallid with five lanceolate black spots ; 

 the posterior ones being the largest ; primaries black with pallid 

 rivulets, which are formed by the scales that clothe the nervures, 

 and produce the rays at the apex of these wings, when the lines 

 are traversed by a transverse, angulated band ; underneath they 

 are pale, with the black points less distinct, except at the apex ; a 

 black spot in the disk near the costal margin ; the secondaries are 

 orange-tawny, spotted at the apex with black ; abdomen tawny 

 above, below pale, with a dorsal and on each side a double lateral 

 black macular stripe; trunk underneath black, with pale hairs, 

 intermixed ; legs black ; tibia? pale above ; thighs with a pale 

 spot at the base and apex. 



Canada. 



KIRBY. 



