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streak to tcrmen at vein 2 and a short streak on vein 4 ; a sliglit 

 oblique streak from costa before apex ; cilia pinkish. Hind wing 

 crimson, with fuscous streak in cell ; a black discoidal lunule with 

 one or two small spots below it ; a large terminal patch from apex 

 to vein 3 and another from vein 3 to near tornus. 



Hub. LF.S.A., Colorado, in Coll. Schaus. Kvp. 38 millim. 



1667. Phragmatobia casta. 



. Bomhyx casta, Esp. Schmett iii. p. 177, pi. 33. f. 2 (1784); Hiibn. Ear. 

 Schraett. ii. ff. 137, 219; Godt. Lep. Fr. iv. p. 316, pi. 32. ff. 3, 4; 

 Staud. Oat. p. 58; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 264. 



S' . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown. Pore wing dark 

 brown ; a slight pinkish-white mark at base of inner margin ; a 

 broad antemedial band angled outwards in submedian fold, some- 

 times reduced and interrupted ; a slightly curved postmedial band 

 giving off a short fascia on outer side between veins 3, 4,. which some- 

 times emits a spur to termea above tornus ; a slight mark from costa 

 before apex. Hind wing white, more or less tinged with pink ; a 

 medial fuscous spot on costa sometimes extending across the cell ; 

 a broad terminal band interrupted or with spot on it between 

 veins 3, 4. 



2 . Head and tegulae often white tinged with pink ; femora pink 

 above; abdomen with subdorsal crimson bands on basal segments; fore 

 wing with the markings often more developed, the mark from costa 

 being bent outwards at vein 6, then inwards to the fascia from post- 

 medial band ; hind wing crimson, usually with the terminal band 

 reduced to two elongate spots. 



Hah. France ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; 

 Hungary ; Russia. Exp. 34 millim. 



1668. Phragmatobia flavia. 



Bomhyx flavia,V\\Q&&\.. Mag. ii. (1) p. 70, pi. 1. f. 11 (1779) ; Esp. Schmett. 



iii. p. 390, pi. 78. f. 1 ; StoU, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 397, O ; Hiibn. Eur. 



Schmett. ii. ff. 315, 318; Godt. Lep. Fr. iv. p. 304, pi. 30. f. 4; Boisd. 



Icones Lep. ii. p. 130, pi. 59. £ 5 ; Staud. Cat. p. 57 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 259. 

 Bomhyx virgo, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ii. f. 132 (1827). 

 Arctia flavia, var, campestris, Graser, Berl. eut. Zeit. xxxvii. p. 212 (1892). 



Head and thorax black ; neck with crimson ring ; tegulae with 

 yellowish band in front ; femora crimson above ; abdomen crimson 

 with black dorsal stripe, terminal segment, and ventral bands on 

 terminal segments. Fore wing black, with incurved whitish ante- 

 medial line connected with base by fasciae in cell and on inner margin ; 

 the medial part of costa white ; a postmedial band angled at vein 4, 

 then slightly sinuous ; asubterminalliue angled outwards to termen 

 above vein 5, then inwards to the postmedial band above vein 3, then 

 outwards to tornus ; cilia white. Hind wing yellow ; a black discoidal 

 lunule sometimes with a spot below it on vein 2 ; a subterminal spot on 

 •vein 5 sometimes connected with costa and a band from vein 3 to 

 near tornus. 



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