250 ARCTIADJ.. 



1680. Maenas vestalis. 



Spllosoma vestalis, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii, p. 125 (1864) ; Stretch, 



Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 133, pi. 6. ff. 7, 8 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 229. 

 Spilosoma vestalis, ab. amelaina, Dyar, Psyche, vi. p. 511 (1893). 



Pure white ; palpi, branches of antennae, and streaks on legs 

 black, fore femora crimson above ; abdomen with dorsal series 

 of short black bands or spots, a lateral series of spots, and 

 sometimes some sublateral spots, sometimes the sides with some 

 yellow. Fore wing with antemedial and medial series of black 

 points angled on median nervure ; points at the angles of cell; 

 a postmedial series of points on each side of the veins excurved 

 from below costa to vein 3 and a subterminal series of points on 

 each side of the veins, almost all these points being sometimes 

 absent. Hind wing with discoidal spot ; a subterminal spot below 

 vein 2 and sometimes one above vein 5. 



Ab. amelaina. Abdomen with the spots partially or entirely 

 absent. 



Hah. Brit. Columbia ; U.S.A., California (Stretch), 8 c? , 1 $ , 

 {Walsingliam) 1 $. Eoc^p.^ S 54, $ 60 millim. 



1681. Maenas albescens, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 20.) 



(5 . White ; palpi and sides of frons black ; antennae rufous : fore 

 legs streaked with black, the femora orange above ; abdomen with 

 the dorsal surface orange, clothed with white hair. 



5 . Antennae with the branches black ; abdomen with the two 

 terminal segments white. 



llah. Venezuela, Valencia ; Peru (Simons), 1 $ . E.vp. 34 

 millim. 



1682. Maenas extensa. (Plate XLIII. fig. 6.) 



Lemi/ra extensa, Wlk. vii. 1690 (1856) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 299. 



2 . Pulvous orange ; palpi black at base and extremity; antennae 

 black ; vertex of head, tegulae, and patagia with black spots ; legs 

 orange and black ; abdomen with dorsal series of black spots, 

 becoming bands towards extremity. Fore wing with the costa 

 black ; black streaks on subcostal nervure, in submedian fold, and 

 on inner margin to the curved antemedial line ; an oblique mark 

 from middle of costa ; a large discoidal spot with incurved band 

 from it to inner margin ; the veins of terminal area streaked with 

 black, stronger on veins 3 and 4 ; a terminal black band, wide at 

 apex, narrowing to tornus. Hind wing with small discoidal spot ; 

 a terminal black band with waved inner edge. 



ITab. Celebes (Pfeiffer), 1 $ type. Exj), 42 millim. 



1683. Maenas simplex. (Plate XLIII. fig. 5.) 



Savara simplex, Wlk. xxxi. 320 (1864) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 29 ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 234. 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; branches of antennae black; 



