124 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



apex ; with a patch of the same colour on the inner margin 

 before the middle. There are several small white spots at the 

 base and a remote series of the same running close to and 

 parallel with the hind-margin. The hind-wings are yellow, 

 with a broad black border containing a marginal row of white 

 spots. The anterior part of the thorax is spotted with white. 

 The abdomen is brown. The variety figured by . Swainson 

 differs a little from the type, as figured by Cramer. Our figure 

 represents Swainson's insect. 



SUB-FAMILY IV. PH^GOPTERIN^. 



This is an extensive group of foreign Moths, the larger pro- 

 portion of which are American. They resemble the typical 

 Arctiida in many respects, but the body is more slender, and 

 the fore-wings are longer, narrower, and more pointed. Some 

 of the species are veiy like Zygtenida^ and they are occasion- 

 ally brightly coloured, but the greater part of them are uni- 

 formly coloured, being white or buff. The abdomen is often 

 marked with a. row of black dots down the middle, and the 

 hind-wings are occasionally produced into a lobe, the only 

 approach to a tail which we find in the Arctiidce. Black spots 

 or rings on a white ground are a very frequent style of colour- 

 ing. As an illustration of this Sub-family we have figured one 

 of the largest species, which is not uncommon in the United 

 States and Canada. 



GENUS ECPANTHERIA. 



Ecpantheria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. : Schmett. p. 183 (1822 ?) \ 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit Mus. iii. p. 688 (1855) j 

 Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1860, p. 523 (1861) ; 

 Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Amer. p.. 174 (1872); Oberthiir, 

 Etudes d'Ent. vi. p. 99 (1881). 



