APAxrEsis. 401 



body whitish, the i)rothoracic shield black ; hairs single, black ; warts 

 large. 



Stage 2. Head light brown, blackish at vertex of lobes and round 

 mouth; body pale brown, with indistinct whitish dorsal line; 

 I>rothoracic shield and warts black, the latter with long spreading 

 blackish hair. 



Stage 3. Body brown, with broad whitish dorsal line ; warts very 

 large, black, with abundant black hair, especially posteriorly, where 

 there are a few white hairs. 



Stage 4. Dorsal line straight, white ; body a little mottled at sides. 



Stage 5. Body, warts, and hair black, except a faint reddish 

 dorsal line. 



Stage 6. Body black above, black-brown below, mottled with 

 paler colour, and with an obscure reddish-brown dorsal band ; 

 warts black ; hair short, barbed, deep black, white on wart vi. ; a 

 few long white hairs on somites 11, 12. 



*1954. Apantesis obliterata. (Plate XLYII. fig. 9.) 



Arctia obliterata. Stretch, Ent. Am. i. p. 105 (1885) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 271. 



S ' Palpi and head below black, vertex of head yellowish with a 

 black spot ; thorax yellowish, the tegulae, patagia, and thorax with 

 black stripes ; legs black, fore femora tinged with ochreous, tibise 

 whitish on outer side ; abdomen ochreous, with broad dorsal black 

 fascia, the ventral surface whitish, with sublateral series of black 

 spots. Fore wing black-brown ; the costa, inner margin, veins, 

 and submedian fascia yellowish ; traces of a medial band ; the post- 

 medial band reduced to its costal half; the sub terminal band 

 oblique from costa to vein 5, bent inwards to lower angle of cell, 

 outwards to near termen at vein 2, and inwards to the submedian 

 fascia. Hind wing dull red, with discoidal, subterminal, and 

 terminal black spots ; cilia of both wings pale. 



Hah. ignotus. Exp. 33 millim. This species is unknown to me ; 

 figured from a copy of Stretch's unpublished Het. Am. pi. vi. f. 14. 



1955. Apantesis anna. 



Arctia anna, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 335, pi. 8. f. 1 (1863) ; 



Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Amer. p. 220, pL 9. f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 267. 

 Arctia persephone, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 433 (1863) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 267. 



(S {persephone). Head and thorax ochreous ; palpi, sides of frons, 

 antennae, and stripes on tegulae, patagia, and thorax black ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen black, the last with ochreous lateral stripes. 

 Fore wing black, with ochreous streaks on costa and veins and 

 fasciae above submedian fold and on inner margin ; a bar across 

 end of cell ; the postmedial band obtusely angled at vein 4, then 

 oblique, and ending at submedian fascia; the subterminal band 



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