374 SYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN ARCTIADAE. 
ovate. Tongue about the length of the thorax beneath. Eyes large 
and prominent. Antenne simple in both sexes, ciliated with two 
strong seta at each joint. Thorax smooth. Body slender. Second- 
aries broader than primaries. Legs rather slender, anterior tibiz:- 
much shorter than the femora; hind tibie with four moderate spurs. 
Flight diurnal. 
Table of species : 
A. Secondaries white. 
B. Primaries white with a transverse 
dark brown Sanat 
beyond the middle 
BB. s§ ‘ with thecostal edge 
yellow orange.. if 
BBB. : BS with a brown band 
from the inner 
margin to the tip 
C. Primaries brown with white spots.. 
CC. § “« with an aie} 
contigua. 
fSulvicosta. 
militaris. 
_ Lecontei. 
subapical white 
band . 
confinis.. 
AA. Secondaries yellow. 
D. Primaries dark brown, with whitish 
spots; secondaries pale elymene. 
yellow .. ; 
DD. fs pale buff, iborideked: pith é 
brownish-black ; second- tai ie 
aries, deep yellow ........, mer HAGE. 
HH. contigua ‘/—Walker. C. B. M., 650. 
Palpi orange-yellow, tipped with black. Antenne brownish-black, 
somewhat lighter below. Head and front edge of thorax deep yel- 
low. Thorax brownish-black, with the sides and shoulder covers 
white. 
Primaries white with blackish-brown stripes; one along the costa 
to near the tip; one on the inner margin, joined at its extremity 
with an oblique transverse band, extending to the costa; from the 
centre of this latter a stripe extends to the hind margin, somewhat 
enlarged at its termination, where it is centered with white. Hind 
margin partially edged with brownish-black. 
