360 SYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN ARCTIADAE. 
portion of the costal stripe near the posterior angle. Inner margin 
bordered with the same color. 
Secondaries reddish flesh color, deeper in color towards base, with 
three black spots along the hind margin, and a patch of the same 
color extending from the anterior angle along the front margin to 
near the base. 
Under surface with the same markings, but paler. 
Abdomen reddish, wlth a black dorsal band above; below brown- 
ish-black. Anterior thighs edged with buff. 
Length of body 53 lines. Wings expand thirteen lines. 
Larva undescribed. 
Hab.—St. Thomas, seventeen miles from London. Rare. 
A decorata!—Saunders. Described in Proc. Ent. Soc. Philada.— 
Vol. 2. No.1. 
Female. Tongue bright yellow. Palpi black. Antenne black, 
slightly pectinate. Head black, with a tuft of yellow hairs between 
the antenne. Thorax ochre yellow, with two small linear spots in 
front, and three larger ones on disk, one central, and one on each 
shoulder cover, and a small spot of the same hue on each side at base 
of primaries. 
Primaries deep velvety black, with rich ochre-yellow stripes, one 
on costa terminating at the apical third of the wing ; one broad cen- 
tral stripe along the median vein to within a third of the hind mar 
gin, slightly enlarged at the tip, where it 1s joined at an acute angle 
by a smaller stripe which terminates just under the extremity of the 
costal band. This central stripe is notched or obscurely furcate about. 
the middle ; the lower part of the notch extends a very short distance: 
towards the hind margin, terminating in a point, and in a line with 
this further towards the posterior angle, are one or two very minute 
yellow dots. Inner margin with a border of the same color, gradu- 
ally widening towards the base. 
Secondaries bright red, widely bordered with dull black, excepting 
on the inner margin; a small red dot set in the black border not far 
from the apex. Ciliz vary in color from echre-yellow to dark brown. 
Under surface paler with the same markings. 
Abdomen deep black, with a patch of ochre-yellow or orange on 
each side at base, wide where it joins the thorax and narrow at its 
termination on the third segment. A yellowish dot on each side of 
