ARACnNIS. — APANTESIS. 



395 



with a pink spot at tornus ; cilia brown, with a white patch at 

 middle. 



Hah. Mexico, Mineral del Monte (Ehrenherg), type in Coll. 



Staudinger. Ea^p. 46 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



*1947. Arachnis martina. 



Arachnis martina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 379, pi. 75. f. 12 

 (1897). 

 S- Head and thorax brownish black, the tegulse edged with 

 white ; pectus and legs grey-white ; abdomen scarlet, dorsal and 

 lateral stripes and the terminal segment black, the ventral surface 

 grey-white. Fore wing grey-brown, with irregular whitish basal 

 line ; a dark-edged pale antemedial line oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, where it is strongly angled, then incurved to vein 1 ; 

 a blackish medial shade with a pale mark before it from costa to 

 median nervure ; a dark postmedial line with a pale mark on it 

 at costa, then excurved between veins 6 and 2 where it is angled 

 inwards, then oblique and with pale points on it ; two subterminal 

 pale points towards apex and larger spots between veins 6 and 2. 

 Hind wing semihyaline ; the costal area and termeu dark brown, 

 the inner area clothed with black hair. 



Hah. Mexico, type in Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 38 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



Genus APANTESIS. 



Type. 



Apantesis,^\k.\\\. &i\ (1855) vittata. 



Callarctia, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 114 (1864) ornata. 



'Orodemnias, Wllgrn. Skand. Het. ii. p. 315 (1866) quenseli, 



Mimarctia, Neum. & Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 9 (1894) arge. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to beyond the frons ; antennae of 

 male bipectinate with moderate branches, of female serrate ; head, thorax, and 

 base of abdomen clothed with woolly hair ; tibiae with the spurs short. Fore 

 wing broad ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from 

 just below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 

 from near angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing with pale streaks on the veins. 



a. Hind wing with the ground-colour scarlet or tinged 

 with pink. 

 a\ Ventral surface of abdomen black. 



a^. Fore wing with the streaks on the veins broad ; 



hind wing with black spot at origin of vein 2... virgo. 

 P. Fore wing with the streaks on the veins narrow ; 

 hind wing without black spot at origin of 



vein 2 jparthenice. 



6^ Ventral surface of abdomen pale with black spots. 

 a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique 



throughout. rectilinea. 



h"^. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled at 

 lower angle of cell. 

 c?. Hind wing pink or tinged with pink. 



a*. Fore wing with oblique bar across end 



of cell michaho. 



