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sixth vein almost to its apex; posterior ci-ossvein bordered with 

 brown, this color extending to the hind margin of the wing ; upper 

 end of the small crossvein also bordered with brown. Halteres 

 light yellow. Legs light yellow, the broad apices of the femora 

 and the last four joints of the tarsi reddish yellow, hind tibiae red- 

 dish yellow ordark bi-own. Length 6 to 8 mm. 



Honolulu, Hawaii. Two males and two females bred by Mr. 

 George Compere from larvae living in green cucumbers. Tj^pe 

 N^o. 4207, U. S. Nat. Museum. 



NOTES ON ALASKAN ARCTIIDAE. 



By Hakrison G. Dtar. 



Phragmatobia fuligmosa, Linn. 



This possibly occurs in Alaska. The National Museum has a 

 specimen collected by Dr. Stejneger on Bering Island, off Kam- 

 chatka. 



Arctinia rubra, Neum. 



Nusagak, Alaska, May 13, 1882. (McKay.) 



Hyphoraia yarrow i,^tvQ{ch. 



St. Michael's, Alaska (Turner); Bethel, Kusokquim River. 



In the color of the wings the specimens resemble var. remissa 

 Hy. Edw., but the markings of the hind wings are as in yarrowi. 

 The fore wings are chestnut brown, the spotting sorbid white, not 

 yellow; hind wings ocherous, the markings gray black. Below 

 both wings are more or less strongly suffused with crimson out- 

 wardly and along costa. All the specimens are males, expanse 35 to 

 38 mm. 



1 suspect that this is really the hyperborea of Curtis, the expanse 

 of which is given as 1 inch 11 lines, whereas ^ar^^enojf Harr is 

 much larger and probably distinct from hyperborea. The larval 

 skin and chrysalis accompany one specimen. The larval hairs are 

 dense, spinu lose, uniform and rather short, whitish, mixed with 

 black. The slender pupa is black with strong cremaster, the seg- 

 mental incisures polished. The cocoon is weak and largely of silk. 



Hyphoraia subnebnlosa, n. sp. 



c? Fore wings reddish chestnut brown, marks pale yellow; a basal 

 streak along vein 1 to middle of wing; another shorter streak on 

 base of median vein, joined to costa by a short bar, at the end an ob- 

 lique bar joins the center of the streak on vein 1 ; an oblique angu- 

 lar spot in center of cell and a second at the end of the cell ; a trans- 

 verse posterior band from costa, dentate inwardly in the interspace 

 between veins 5-6 and again very strongly in the submedian inter- 

 space; a submarginalband, bent in dentately to touch the t. p. band 

 in the interspace 6-7, again at 3-4 and again in the submedian inter- 



