228 ARCTIAD^. 



1645. Ocnogyna Corsica. 



TncJiosoma corsicum, Eamb. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. p. 272, pi. 8. f. 6 (1832) ; 



Boisd. Icones, Lep. ii. p. 119, pi. 60. ff. 7, 9 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. 



p. 61, pi. 4. if. 6 a, 6; Freyer, Neue Beitr. ii. p. 87, pi. 146. f. 3; 



Geyer, Eur. Schmett. ff. 347, 348, 352; Staud. Cat. p. 58; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 274. 

 Ocnogyna Corsica, var. sardoa, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. xiv. p. 105 (1870). 

 Ocnogyna Corsica, var. albifascia, Const. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) viii. p. 161, 



pi. iv. f. 1. (1888). 



J . Black ; head, thorax, and abdomen with some grey hair ; 

 shaft of antennae yellow above ; extremity of tibiae and tarsi yellow; 

 abdomen with yellow segmental lines on ventral surface. Fore 

 wing with ochreous-white markings, becoming orange at margins ; 

 waved subbasal and antemedial bands connected in submedian fold 

 and obsolescent towards inner margin ; a medial waved band some- 

 what angled on median nervure and connected in submedian fold 

 with the postmedial waved band, which is angled at vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the snbterminal band interrupted in places, angled 

 inwards below costa, outwards to near termen above vein 5, then 

 inwards to postmedial band at vein 4 and to termen at vein 2 ; cilia 

 with some orange points. Hind wing orange, with black fasciae 

 below the cell and on vein 1 ; a discoidal spot ; a large snbterminal 

 spot from costa to vein 4, and a maculate band on apical part of 

 termen. 



5 . Wings aborted, small ; fore wing with the markings more 

 diffused ; hind wing orange, with some black spots on termen. 



Ab. 1. sardoa. Hind wing with the fasciae reduced to spots ; 

 female with the wings more developed. — Sardinia. 



Ab. 2. albifascia. The orange areas replaced by dirty white. 



Hah. CoEsicA, 6 d , 2 $ , Frey Coll. ; Saedinia, 2 cJ , 2 $ , Zeller 

 Coll. Exp., S 28, 2 16 millim. 



Larva. Pale, mottled with red-brown ; the warts with tufts of 

 plumose hair ; the hair from warts of first four and last two somites 

 black on dorsum, pale fulvous on medial somites, the hair from 

 lateral warts white, from sublateral and ventral warts black ; head 

 red-brown. 



* 161 6. Ocnogyna pretiosa. 



Arctia pretiosa, Staud. Eom. Mem. iii. p. 192, pi. 11. f. 4 (1887) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 265. 



$ . Head and thorax brownish grey ; antennae black ; tegulae 

 with black spots at sides and middle; patagia with black streaks at 

 extremity ; thorax with black patch ; abdomen orange, with dorsal 

 black fascia on basal segments followed by a short band, then a 

 triangular spot. Fore wing black ; a brownish-grey antemedial 

 band, angled on median nervure, emitting fasciae to base on costa, 

 median nervure, and inner margin, and a fascia to the postmedial 

 band on median nervure ; an oblique fascia from middle of costa 

 to lower angle of cell ; a postmedial band, excurved from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then slightly incurved; a subterminal dentate 



