ARACHNIS. 



393 



Hah. Mexico, Las Vegas, typo t in Coll. Sdiaus, Milpas {Forrey-), 

 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. 



Subsp. 4. cifra, Neum. & Dyar, Ent. News Philad. iv. p. 140 (1893). 



Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground-colour yellow-buff 

 and extensive, the bands reduced; underside of fore wing yellow, 

 paler towards apex. 



Hah. Colorado, 1 $ . 



1943. Arachnis dilecta. 



SpUosoma dilecta, Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 97 (1870) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. pp. 219, 



908. 

 Ecpantheria sangioinea, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 112, pi. 20. fF. 1, 2 (1881) ; 



Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Het. i. p. 98. 



$ . Palpi crimson, fringed with white below; frons and antennae 

 brown ; vertex of head white ; neck crimson ; thorax white, with 

 broad brown stripes edged by fine black lines on tegulse, patagia, 

 and thorax, the last forking posteriorly and enclosing a white spot ; 

 fore coxae and femora above crimson ; legs with black-edged brown 

 patches ; abdomen scarlet, with brown dorsal spots on first three 

 segments, black-edged dorsal brown bands on four subterminal seg- 

 ments, and a large patch on terminal segment, the ventral surface 

 white with medial series of black- edged brown spots. Fore wing 

 white, with black-edged brown markings ; a subbasal spot on costa ; 

 antemedial, medial, postmedial, and subterminal very irregular bands, 

 oblique towards costa, bent outwards to inner margin, and all con- 

 nected below the cell where they enclose small black-edged w^hite 

 spots towards base, before middle, two at middle and one beyond 

 middle, the subterminal band with a detached triangular patch on 

 costa ; a terminal band with irregular inner edge, bidentate and 

 conjoined to the subterminal band below apex. Hind wing scarlet, 

 with black-edged medial, postmedial, and subterminal irregular 

 brown bands, the 1st dentate on inner side and expanding on outer 

 on vein 1, the 2nd expanding on outer side beyond the cell and at 

 tornus bent round on inner margin, the last expanding below costa, 

 at middle and tornus ; a narrow terminal band ; cilia white at 

 tornus. Underside of fore wing with the ground-colour of cell 

 scarlet. 



Hah. Mexico (Hoege), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Honduras. 

 Exj^. 80 millim. 



1944. Arachnis zuni. (Plate XLYII. fig. 15.) 



Arachnis zuni, Neum. Ent. Am. vi. p. 173 (1890) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 378, pi. 75. ff. 5, 8 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 219. 



S . Head white ; palpi yellow, fringed with white beloW ; frons 

 brown, with black line above ; antennae brown ; thorax white, with 

 broad brown fasciae edged by fine black lines on tegnlae, patagia, and 

 thorax, the last forking posteriorly ; abdomen yellow, with dorsal 



