SYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN ARCTIADAE. 371 
conspicuous from sixth to ninth. Color of under side varies from 
reddish to yellowish-brown ; feet reddish ; legs brown, thickly clothed 
with short hairs. 
These larva attain their full growth in the autumn, when they may 
be found feeding on the wild sunflower, and hybernate through the 
winter under logs, the loose bark of decaying trees, &. When aroused 
from their torpor by the warmth of spring, they feed a little on almost 
any green thing they meet with, before going into chrysalis. They 
will feed readily on grass. They enter the chrysalis state about the 
last of April or beginning of May, and the perfect insect is evolved 
early in June. 
Var. Thorax with bluish-black spots instead of rings; abdomen 
tipped with white ; dorsal row of orange spots wanting. 
Hab.—London, not common; St. Catherines (Mr. Beadle) ; Port 
Stanley (Mr. Edwards). 
Phragmatobia. Stephens» 
Palpi short, scarcely distinct, very pilose. Antenne short; of the 
Male serrate, of the Female simple. Head and thorax with long 
hairs. Wings semitransparent. Body stout. Abdomen maculate. 
Anterior tibize unarmed ; posterior tibie with four spurs. 
Table of species : 
A. Primaries red, with brown markings............... assimilans. 
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*P, assimilians.—-Walker. OC. B. M., 6380. 
“ Male. Red. Antenne testaceous. Thorax with brown hairs. 
“Wings red; veins darker. Primaries slightly brown along the 
costa, and elsewhere indistinctly sprinkled with pale brown, with two 
blackish dots. 
“ Secondaries brighter red, with three black dots, two on the disk, 
and one near the hind border towards the inner angle. 
Length of body 6 lines. Wings expand 16 lines.” 
Var. “ Primaries almost wholly brown. Secondaries with a broad 
blackish submarginal stripe.” 
Larva undescribed. 
‘Hab.— United States. 
