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AECTIADiE. 



1868. Estigmene acraea. 



Bomhyxacraa, Drurv, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 3. f. 2 (1773) ; Abbot & Smith, 

 Lep. Georg. ii. pi. 67 ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 99, pi. 4. ff. 1-3 ; 

 Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 110; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 226. 



Bomhya: caprotina, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 3. f. 3 (1773) ; Stoll, Pap. 

 Exot. iii. pi. 287, 0. 



Arctia pseuderminea, Harv. Rep. Ins. Injur. Yeg. p. 354 (1841). 



Cycnia dubia, Wlk. iii. p. 682 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 227. 



Leucarctia californica. Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 121 (1864). 



Spilosoma mexicana, Wlk. xxxi. 291 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 227. 



Leucarctia packardii, Schaup, Check-list Brooklyn Ent. Soc. p. 8 (1882). 



Leucarctia rickseckeri, Behr, Zoe, iv. p. 247 (1893). 



Leucarctia acrcea, var. klagesii, Ehrmann, Can. Ent. 1894, p. 292. 



Bombyx menthrastrina, Martyn, Psyche, pi. 15. f. 38, ined. 



J. Head and thorax white with a flesh-coloured tint; palpi 

 black, fringed with orange below ; sides of frons and antennae black , 

 pectus and legs orange, with black patches on fore coxae and femora, 

 the tibiee and tarsi black, banded with white ; abdomen orange,_the 

 base and extremity and lateral stripes and ventral bands whitish ; 

 dorsal, lateral, sublateral, and ventral series of black spots. Fore 

 wing white with a slight flesh tint ; live black spots on costa ; a 

 basal black point ; obliquely placed antemedial black points below 



Fig. 153. — Estigmene acrcBu, (^ . \. 



cell and above vein 1 ; a medial series of four points ; one or two 

 points at lower angle of cell ; a postmedial oblique series of points 

 from below vein 6 to inner margin, sometimes with some points 

 before their medial portion; a terminal series of points; the spots 

 often very much reduced. Hind wing orange, with black discoidal 

 lunule and more or less complete subterminal series of spots. 

 Underside of fore wing orange ; short subbasal black streaks on 

 costa of each wing. 



$ . Pure white ; abdomen with the ventral surface white ; fore 

 wing sometimes with the series of spots more complete, the ante- 

 medial series being angled outwards below costa and on median 

 nervure, inwards in cell, the medial series angled on median nervure 

 and the postmedial excurved from below costa to vein 3, or the 

 spots much reduced and many obsolete ; hind wing and underside 

 of fore wing white. 



