March 1894.] NeUMCEGEN & DVAR. N. A. BoMItVCES. 7 



lated slightly on median vein. The median (3rd) line usually 

 reaches from costa to median vein but it may project below median 

 vein or be absent. Rarely the 4th line is partly absent. Secondaries 

 Vermillion red with double marginal r(nv of subtriangular black 

 spots and two to five discal spots. 'I'hora.x normal ; abdomen red 

 with (.lorsal and lateral black spots, The var. citriiniria differs 

 only in the color of secondaries. E.xpanse, 35 — 50 mm. 

 JIabitat, Atlantic States westward. 



E. virguncula Kirby. 



1S37 — Callimoypha virguncula KnMiV, Richardson Fauna Bor. .Anur., Vol. 

 IV'. p. 304. 



var. otiosa Neumoegcn c^ Dyar. 



1893 — Euprepia vlri^uncttla var. otiosa Nki'miegi'.n <.V Dvak, Mnt. News., Vol. 

 IV, p. 142. 



Smaller than virgo, all the transverse lines except the w-mark 

 absent. Secondaries and abdomen dark ocher yellow, the former 

 with double marginal row of spots, one discal spot, and a series of 

 basal streaks which may become e.xtented and fuse with the enlarged 

 spots rendering the wing largely black. The dorsal abdominal 

 spots are fused into a band. Expanse, 30 — 40 mm. 



Habitat, Northern Atlantic States westward. 



The 7-ar. otiosa has slight traces of one or more of the normal 

 transverse lines. 



E. michabo Grotc. 



ii~l — Arctia michalw Gkotr, Can. Ent., Vol. VII, \i. 196. 



7'ar. minea Slosson. 



1S92 — ./. miuea Sl.ossoN, Ent. News , Vol. Ill, p. 257. 



Pale marks flesh cream color, line 3 oblique, in cell from costa 

 to median vein: line 4 slightly angulated sometimes almost forming 

 an irregular x with w-mark. W broad. \'eins lined, that on 

 median broader than the vein, but only slightly so, approaching 

 tlie parthenicc group. Apex of primaries pointed. Secondaries 

 flesh red, pale in <S\ one to four discal, submarginal and marginal 

 black spots. Secondaries tend to be subtranslucent recalling atge 

 which the species also approaches in wing shape, but it has not 

 the x-mark so well developed. Expanse, 43 mm. 



Habitat, .\tlantic States westward. 



E. intermedia Stretch. 



1874 — Arctia intermedia SiREiCM. Zyg. and Homb. N. A., \"ol. I, p. 216. 

 \%~i'?>~ Ardia cithoua Stkeckek, I.ep. Roph. and Het., p. 131. 



