APANTESI3. 403 



Arcfia speclosa, Moschl. Wiea. ent. Mon. viii. p. 195, pi. 5. ff. 13, 14 

 (18C)4); Mill. Icones Lep. ii. p. 20, pi. 53. f. 4; Kirby, Oat. Het. 

 p. 271. 



Arctia complicata, Wlk. xxxi. 270 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 270. 



Arctia qucnselu,Vi\r. turbans, Christ, Iris, v. p. 349(1892); Alph. Eom. 

 Mem. ix. p. 199, pi. 10. f. 10. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi, sides of frons, 

 vertex of head, anterinaj, and stripes on tegula?, patagia, thorax, and 

 shoulders black ; some yellow behind the head ; pectus and legs 

 black, the fore coxa3 and extremity of femora above yellow, tibiae 

 striped with white ; abdomen yellowish white, with broad black 

 dorsal stripe on segmental bands, and lateral and sublateral series 

 of spots. Fore wing black, the costa, veins, and inner margin 

 striped with yellowish white ; a fascia above submedian fold ; bars 

 across end of cell and beyond the cell ; the subterminal band oblique 

 from below costa to near termen above vein 5, bent inwards to 

 lower angle of cell, then outwards to near termen at vein 2 and 

 inwards to the submedian fascia ; cilia white. Hind wing black, 

 with some semihyaiine markings in and beyond end of cell and 

 streak in submedian fold, sometimes almost obsolete ; a subter- 

 minal band sometimes present between veins 5 and 1, angled inwards 

 to lower angle of cell and in submedian fold, and to termen at 

 veins 2 and 1 ; cilia white. 



Ab. 1. complicata. Eore wing with the bars in and beyond cell 

 continued to the submedian fascia, the latter slightly angled at 

 lower angle of cell. 



5 . Head and thorax sometimes and abdomen usually yellower ; 

 fore wing with the stripes on the veins broader, the markings 

 often yellower ; a curved antemedial band sometimes present ; hind 

 wing with the markings yellow and more developed ; the subter- 

 minal band sometimes complete ; the cilia yellow. 



Ab. 2. turbans. S . Hind wing orange-yellow to base, the dis- 

 coidal, subterminal, and terminal spots black ; $ with the costal 

 half of basal area black. — Mongolia, Kentei. 



Hah. Europe, High Alps, Zeller & Frey Colls., Norway, Zeller 

 Coll., Lapland ; Siberia ; Mongolia ; Labrador, 1 c? , 1 $ , Frey 

 Coll. ; Vancouver I., 1 S type comjplicata. Ejc_p. 36-40 millim. 



1957. Apantesis virguncula. 



Calllmorpha virgnncula, Kirby, Richardson's Fauna Bor.-Amer. iv, p. 304, 



pi. 4. f. 6 (1837) ; Stretch," Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 218, pi. 9. f. .5 ; 



Kirby, Oat. Het. p 270. 

 Arctia dahurica, Grrote, Trans. Amer. Eat. Soc. i. p. 336, pi. 6. f. 41 (1868) 



(nee Boisd.). 

 Eitprepia vlrgiincida, var, otiosa, Neum. & Dyar, Eat. News, iv. p. 142 



(1893). 



Deep orange-yellow ; palpi, sides of frons, antennae, and stripes 

 on tegulae, patagia, thorax, and shoulders black; pectus with 

 patches of black ; legs striped with black ; abdomen with dorsal, 

 lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing black, with 



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