336 AECTIAD^. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with vein 5 from angle of cell. 



A. Fore wing white cunea. 



E. Fore wing blackish aspersa. 



1852. Hyphantria cunea. 



Bomhyx cunea, Drury, 111. Ex. Ent. i. pi. 18. f. 4 (1773) ; Hiibn. Zutr. iii. 



ff. 405, 406 ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 205, pi. 8. ff. 18-20 ; 



Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 389 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 234. 

 PJialcena punctatissima. Abbot & Smith, Lep. Ins. Georg. ii. pi. 70 (1797). 

 Cycnia hudea, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. ii. ff. 387-388 (1827) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 237. 

 Hyphantria textor, Harr. Eep. Ins. Mass. p. 255 (1841) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 234. 

 Spilosoma mutans, Wlk. Tii. 1697 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 228. 

 Hyphantria punctata, Fitch, Rep. Ins. N.Y. iii. p. 387 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 234. 

 8piloso7na Candida, Wlk. xxxi. 291 (1864). 

 Hyphantria pallida. Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 118 (1864) ; Skinner, 



Ent. News, i. p. 51 (1890) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 269. 



S . Pure white ; palpi above and branches of antennae black ; 

 patagia and thorax sometimes with black streaks ; fore coxae orange 

 with black patches, femora orange above, tibiae and tarsi streaked 

 with black ; abdomen with fuscous bands or dorsal and lateral 

 series of spots. Tore wing with slight black streaks at base ; ante- 

 medial, medial, postmedial, and subterminal series of spots, the Ist 

 angled outwards below cell, the 2nd on median nervure, the 3rd 



Fig. 151. — Hyphantria cunea, (J. {. 



excurved from below costa to vein 3, then incurved, the last sinuous, 

 its costal half formed by short streaks on each side of the veins and 

 with some spots before it ; spots in the angles of cell and a series 

 on termen and cilia. Hind wing with small discoidal spot and 

 subterminal spots above vein 5 and below 2 often absent. 



2 . Fore wing with the spots reduced and the series more widely 

 separated. 



Ab. 1. punctata. Fore wing with the spots reduced to one or two 

 points in end of cell and one or two towards apex. 



Ab. 2. textor. Wings wholly white. 



Hah. Canada; U.S.A. throughout, type Candida, Zeller and 

 Grote Colls.; Mexico, Durango (Becker), 1 c? , 2 $ , Orizaba (Elwes), 

 1 S . Kxp., S 34-42, $ 42-48 millim. Type t mutans in Mus. 

 Oxon. 



