APLECTOIDES. 



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white strongly irrorated with black-brown ; a double, waved, black 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold filled in with white, and 

 with a slight black streak below its extremity ; a similar anteraedial 

 line strongly angled inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; claviform 

 outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform white, irrorated with 

 black and defined by black, the former oblique, ellixDtical, open 

 above, the latter with some black at centre, two black streaks in 

 the cell between the stigmata ; the- postmedial line double, black, 

 filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then strongly 

 dentate and produced to points at the veins, excurved to vein 4, 

 then slightly incurved ; a subtermiual series of dentate black marks 



Fig. 94. — Aplecfoides speciosa, ^. 



slightly bent outwards at',vein 7; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with pale fuscous brown ; a terminal series of black striae ; 

 the underside white irrorated with black, a discoidal lunule and 

 curved dentate postmedial line, incurved in discal fold. 



Ab. 1. ohscura. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore Aving much 

 darker. 



Ab. 2. arctica. Small and dark, with the markings indistinct. — 

 Alpine and Arctic. 



Ab. 3. cegrota. Small, pale with the markings indistinct. — 

 Mongolia. 



Ab. 4. mixta. Small and pale, with the markings prominent. — 

 Labrador. 



llab. Canada, Labrador, Hudson's Bay, St. Martin's Falls (Barn- 

 ston), 2 2 type mivta ; U.S.A., White Mts., 1 c^" , Adirondack 

 Mts., Vermont; Germany, ,Hartz Mts., Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 Prev Coll. ; Scandinavia, Zeller Coll. ; Russia ; Mongolia. Exjy. 

 38-50 millim. 



Larva. Hoffmann, Stett. ent. Zeit. slviii. p. 142 (1887). 



1st stage : Dull green with black warts and hairs ; head and 

 thoracic shield brown. 



2nd stage : Browner, with fine white dorsal and subdorsal lines 

 defined by black ; lateral stripe yellow ; thoracic somites with two 

 subdorsal points on each side, which on abdominal somites are 

 obliquely placed, the abdominal somites have X-like black dorsal 

 marks and are dorsally prominently irrorated with black ; spiracles 

 black. 



3rd & 4th stages with slight changes. 



