SYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN ARCTIADAE. 353 
band, which is continued on each side of the outer edge of the 
shoulder covers; upper edge of the collar crimson-red. 
Primaries dark brown, with three small cream-coloured spots on 
the outer edge; four spots of the same colour in a line near the 
inner margin, and several more scattered on the disk. 
Secondaries deep ochre-yellow; with the base, the basal edge of 
the inner margin, a triangular spot in the middle, adjoining the basal 
spot, and a broad indented band behind, black. 
Abdomen dusky above, tawny at the tip, and beneath. Legs 
dusky ; thighs and tibie fringed with crimson hairs.”’ 
Larva undescribed. 
Hab.—Valley of the River Rouge (Mr, D’Urban); Lake Supe- 
rior; Mass. 
*A. placentia—Abbot. Figured in Sm. Ab. pl. 65. 
“« Fuscous ; primaries with one or three pale testaceous spots; 
secondaries reddish, margin and some sub-marginal spots fuscous. 
Abdomen above reddish, with the dorsal spots and apex fuscous. 
Var. a.—Fore wings with the outer fringe partly pale testaceous ; 
and with several spots and dots of the same colour in 
the disk. 
Var. b.—Fore wings with the outer fringe wholly blackish-brown, 
unspotted, except two very minute testaceous dots.” 
Larva undescribed. 
Hab.—North America. 
A. parthenice !—Kirby. Var. ?—4A. virgo. 
Palpi black, tipped with whitish. Head buff in front, black at 
the sides. Antenne dark brown. Thorax flesh-coloured, with two 
small anterior and three large posterior black stripes. 
Primaries black, margined and striped with buff; veins and their 
branches narrowly striped; a wide central stripe extending to the 
hind margin, furcate just beyond the base; with the lower branch 
again furcate near the posterior angle. The central stripe is joined 
at an acute angle at the tip by a branch extending to the costa; 
another stripe from the costa, about the apical third of the wing, 
extends to the median stripe, below which it is fureate,—one part 
terminating beyond the middle, the other at the end of the lower 
stripe. 
