SYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN ARCTIADAE. 357 
Secondaries ochre-yellow, with a brownish tinge; with one or two 
small black spots, and a broad irregular dusky black border along 
the external edges, widest at the apex and narrower towards the 
inner angle; a line of ochre-yellow extends half through the black 
border, about the middle of the wing, and the border has also one 
or two small, dull, ochre spots in it. 
Under surface paler, with similar markings ; veins on secondaries 
narrowly striped with pale buff while passing through the black 
border. 
Abdomen deep ochre, whitish towards the tip, with a black dorsal 
band, and lateral rows of spots of the same hue; under serface, 
thorax dull brownish, abdomen black, annulated with whitish. Legs 
brownish black, femora edged externally with buff. 
Length of body 7 lines. Wings expand 18 lines. 
Larva undescribed. 
Var. a—Aale. Fore stripe of the primaries not joining the costa. 
Var. b.— Wale. Inner border of the secondaries reddish. 
Var. c.—WMale. Primaries with no pale oblique band towards the tip. 
Var. d.— Female. Like Var.c. Secondaries red, with broad blackish 
borders. Abdomen wholly brown, except on each 
side above towards the base. 
Var. e.—Female. Primaries with testaceous veins; fore stripe and 
part of the middle stripe almost obsolete.” 
Hab.—Hamilton (Mr. Reynolds). Massachusetts. 
A. virgincula !—Kirby. Figured in Faun. Bor Amer. iv. pl. 4. 
Palpi small, brownish black Antenne black, with a brownish 
tinge. Head fiesh-colored above, black at sides. Thorax pinkish- 
buff, with five black spots, two small ones in front, and three larger 
on disk. 
Primaries black, margined, and striped with pale flesh-color. 
Costal margin, veins, and their branches, narrowly striped. The 
central longitudinal stripe along the median vein linear throughout. 
A wide stripe, having its origin at the base immediately under the 
median vein, and deflected trom thence to the hind margin, where it 
is furecate. A zig-zag subterminal band, beginning on the costa near 
the apex and terminating near the posterior angle, where it joins the 
end of the wide longitudinal stripe. Two wide stripes arise trom 
the costal edge ; the first, about the middle of the wing, extends to. 
