346 AECTIAD^. 



Stage 5. Hair long and slender, some towards extremity very 

 long ; dorsal hair black-brown ; warts dark, the lateral ones 

 reddish ; lateral hair reddish ; spiracles buff-coloured, prominent. 



Pood-plant, Flantago. 



1869. Estigmene prima. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 21.) 



Spilosoma prima, Sloss. Ent. Am. v. p. 40 (1889) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 228. 



5 . White ; palpi orange, black at tips ; femora orange above ; 

 fore tibise streaked with orange and fuscous, the mid and hind tibia? 

 at extremity and tarsi tinged with fuscous ; abdomen dorsally and 

 laterally orange-yellow except basal and two terminal segments, 

 dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. Pore wing with 

 antemedial series of black points angled below median nervure ; a 

 medial series of spots obtusely angled on median nervure; a black 

 spot at lower angle of cell ; a maculate postmedial line strongl}' 

 excurved from below costa to vein 3, then oblique ; a spot on costa 

 towards apex ; an oblique series of short streaks on each side of the 

 veins from apex to vein 5, and a subterminal series from vein 5 to 

 inner margin ; the termen tinged with fuscous. Hind wing with 

 discoidal lunule ; a subterminal series of spots below costa, above 

 and below vein 5, and three towards tornus. 



Hah. U.S.A., New York, 1 $ , N. England, northwards. Exp, 

 46 millim. 



1870. Estigmene albida. 



Leucarctla albida, Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 203, pi. 8. f. 22 (1874) ; 

 Wheeler's Rep. W. 100th Mericl. v. p. 798, pi. 40. ff. 4, 5 ; Druce, Biol. 

 Oentr.-Am., Het. i. p. 117; Khby, Cat. Het. p. 227. 



Pure white ; palpi orange below, black above ; antenn® black, 

 the shaft annulated with white ; fore coxse orange and black ; 

 femora orange above ; tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 orange above, white at base, extremity, and on ventral surface, a 

 dorsal series of short black bands and lateral and sublateral series 

 of points. Pore wing immaculate, or with black point at lower 

 angle of cell and rarely a point on costa towards apex. Hind wing 

 immaculate, or with black discoidal point and with subterminal 

 points above vein 5 and below veins 2 and 1. 



Hah. California ; Costa Rica {Rogers, Van Patten)^ 8 c5* , 3 $ , 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 50 millim. 



This may be only an extreme form of the white variety of 

 E. acrcea. 



1871. Estigmene antigone. (Plate XLVII, fig. 22.) 



Spilosoma congrua, Wlk. iii. 669 (1885), c^ ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 234. . 

 Spilosoma antiqone, Streck. Rep. Chief of Engineers, 1877, App. SS. 



p. 1860 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 226. 

 Spilosoma athena, Streck. Suppl. ii. p. 4 (1899). 



S . White ; head with a yellowish tinge ; palpi streaked with 



