268 ARCTIAD^. 



black spot ; a subterminal spot below vein 2 and often one above 

 vein 5. 



Fore wing with vein 10 abnormally from cell or from 11, which 

 is sometimes stalked with 7, 8, 9 ; in one specimen veins 4, 5 on 

 one side are represented by a short spur. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, Renfrew Coast, Nova Scotia; 

 Yancouver Is. (J. J. Walker) ; U.S.A., Atlantic States, Trenton 

 Ealls, Georgia, type congrua $ ; Mexico, Durango {Becker), 2 cJ , 

 1 2 ) Salvin-Godman Coll. E.vp. 44-54 millim. 



Larva. Pack. Ann. N. Y. Ac. viii. p. 78 ; Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. v. p. 131. 



Young : Pale greenish ; head large, dark chestnut-brown ; 

 piliferous warts dark chestnut, conical ; hairs blackish, very long ; 

 prothoracic shield crescent-shaped, with two series of warts. 



Full-grown : Body dull black with white segmental incisions ; 

 the hair black, with a reddish streak on abdominal somites, or all 

 the hair is foxy red except on 1st somite and the sublateral hair 

 on 2nd and 3rd somites ; head small, black, the clypeus, antennse, 

 labrum, and mouth-parts greenish. 



1711. Diacrisia alba. 



Chelonia alba, Brem. Schmett. N, China, p. 15 (1853) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 229. 

 Bionychopus ruhidus, Leech, Entom. xxiii. p. 11] (1880) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 229. 

 Spilosoma leucoptera, Alph. Eom. Mem. ix. p. 170, pi. 10. f. 8 (1897). 



Pure white ; palpi and frons at sides and antennse black ; 

 shoulders with black points ; crimson stripes just below shoulders 

 and wings ; legs striped with black above, the fore coxae crimson 

 with black spots, femora crimson above ; abdomen crimson above, 

 with dorsal black points on medial segments and lateral and sub- 

 lateral series. Fore wing with black point at base, sometimes with 

 fuscous medial points above vein 1 and base of vein 2 ; a point 

 beyond lower angle of cell and short streak above vein 5. Hind 

 wing with discoidal spot, and sometimes subterminal spots above 

 vein 5 and two towards tornus. 



Hah. CoKEA ; C. and W. China, Chang-yang, 2 $ , Moupin 

 (Kricheldorff), 1 (5* , 1 $ type ruhidus. Exp. 60 millim. 



1712. Diacrisia punctaria. 



Bomhyx punctaria, Stoll, Pap, Exot. iv. pi. 398, T> (1782) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 228. 

 Arctia punctigera, Motsch. Et. Ent. ix. p. 31 (1860). 

 Spilosoma roseiventer, A' oil. Tidskr. Ent. vi. p. 143 (1863). 

 Spilosoma dornesii, Oberth. Diagn. Lap. Askold, p. 6 (1879) ; id. Et. Ent. 



V. p. 31, pi. 1. f. 7. 



Pure white; palpi, antennae, and streaks on legs black; femora 

 above crimson ; abdomen crimson above except basal and terminal 

 segments, dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. 

 Fore wing with basal and subbasal points below costa ; antemedial 

 and medial series of a few points angled on median nervure ; points 



