516 AECTIADiE, 



black ; legs banded with black ; abdomen with small fuseons patch 

 on dorsum in male, a large patch in female. Fore wing bright 

 scarlet, with broad fuscous subcostal fascia from close to base to just 

 before termen ; a fuscous fascia from submedian fold to below vein 

 1 from near base to tornus ; a short fascia from loAver angle of 

 cell to near termen between veins 3 and 5 ; cilia fuscous. Hind 

 wing crimson, the terminal half fuscous black with irregular inner 

 edge. 



Ab. 1. suhornata. Hind wing with the terminal half crimson. 



Hah. Canada, Pv.enfrew Co., Grote Coll., 2 S ; U.S.A., JST. Atlantic 

 States, 1 c? , 3 § ,Grote and Zell. Colls. Exp., S 32, $ 40 millim. 



Egg. Dyar, Ent. News, Pbilad. iii. p. 24G (1893). 



Subspherical, much flattened on basal side, coarsely reticulated 

 Avith roundly hexagonal reticulations ; dark shining lead-colour with 

 a shght metallic green tinge ; diameter 0-6 millim. Laid separately 

 and loose. 



Larva. 1st stage. Head cordate, black, shining, about -3 millim. 

 wide ; body deeply incised between the segments, cylindrical ; warts 

 inconspicuous; hairs distinct, blackish ; orange, with dark stripe from 

 near head to beyond middle, becoming later a double dorsal brownish 

 stripe; warts small, subconical, each bearing a single minutely 

 spinulate hair. 



1 109. Hypoprepia fucosa. 



Hypoprepia fucosa, Hubn. Zul.r. Ex. Schmett. iii. p. 21, ff. 471, 472 (1825) ; 



Stretch, Zvg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 46, pi. 2. f. 12 ; Erby, Cat. Het. 



p. 288. 

 Atolmis tricolor, Fitch, Eeps. Ins. N. Y. iii. p. 138 (1856). 

 Hypoprepia plumbea, H. Edw. Eat. Am. ii. p. 9 (1886); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 288. 



Head orange and crimson, or orange : palpi and antennae black ; 

 thorax crimson, the tegulpe often orange ; a fuscous patch on meso- 

 thorax ; legs orange, banded with black ; abdomen crimson, with 

 more or less fuscous on dorsum, the anal tuft orange. Fore wing 

 orange, with the medial part of terminal area, except the termen 

 itself, crimson, or crimson with the costal area orange ; a broad 



Fig. 369. — Hypoprepia fucosa, o • \. 



fuscous subcostal fascia from near base to just before or reaching 

 termen ; a broad fuscous fascia from submedian fold to just below 

 vein 1 from near base to tornus ; a short fascia between veins 3 

 and 5 from lower angle of cell to near or reaching termen. Hind 

 wing crimson, with broad terminal fuscous baud with sinuous inner 

 edge. 



