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{Flolir). 1 5 , Mexico (Godman), 1 c^ , Atoyac, 1 (^ , Guerrero 

 {II. II. /Smith), 1 2 , Durango (Becker), 2 (S , Putzcuaro (Godman), 

 1 c? , 1 $; Guatemala (Champion^ Rodriguez, Salle, Conradt), 

 5 d" , 3 $ ; Costa Kica {Underwood), 5 cT , 4 5 , Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exj). 38-42 miilim. 



Larva with the hair red-brown. 



*1959. Apantesis bolanderi. 



Arctia holandcri, Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 76, pi. 3. f. 13 (1872) ; 

 Xirbj, Cat. Het. p. 2(i8. 



cS . Head and thorax whitish ; palpi above and sides of frons 

 black-brown ; antennae with the branches brown ; vertex of head 

 with brown spot : tegula3, patagia, and thorax with brown stripes ; 

 legs striped with brown ; abdomen orange, with short dorsal black 

 bands and lateral series of spots, the ventral surface banded black 

 and yellowish white. Fore wing dark brown ; the costa whitish 

 to beyond middle, expanding into slight spots near base and before 

 middle ; a fascia in submedian fold emitting a slight spur on median 

 nervure ; a slight streak on base of vein 1 and a fascia on inner 

 margin; an oblique medial line from costa to below the submedian 

 fascia, where it is nearly joined by the postmedial line, or extending 

 to inner margin ; the subterminal line oblique from costa to near 

 termen at vein 5, then retracted to lower angle of cell, bent out- 

 wards to near termen at vein 2, then inwards to the submedian 

 fascia ; cilia white at tips. Hind wing scarlet or yellow tinged 

 with scarlet ; three subterminal brown spots and a narrow terminal 

 band from apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with brown streaks in and below cell and on 

 vein 1 ; a spot beyond the cell ; the terminal band wide, confluent 

 with the subterminal spots, and extending to vein 1. 



Hah. U.S.A., Rocky Mts. and Sierra Nevada, Exp. 30-34 miilim. 



Egg. Dyar, P. Bost. Soc. xxyI. p. 153 (1895). 



Hounded, conoidal, flattened at base, smooth, shining orange- 

 yellow : diam. 55 miilim. ; laid without attachment to any object. 



Larva. 1st stage. Head bilobed, black ; labrum pale ; mouth 

 brown ; body whitish, the warts, cervical shield, and feet blackish, 

 the warts each with a long stifl" hair ; hair black dorsally, pale 

 laterally. 



2nd stage. Body brownish, dark subdorsally, defining a whitish 

 dorsal line ; warts large and black, with numerous stiff" short hairs. 



3rd stage. Posterior part of body with some long whitish hairs. 



4th stage. Head entirely black with a few hairs ; warts and 

 subdorsal area black, leaving pale dorsal and subdorsal lines ; hair 

 short, stiff', black, dorsally whitish, subventrally with three or four 

 long white hairs posteriorly. 



5th stage. An orange-red dorsal line ending at cervical shield 

 and anal plate. 



6th stage. Wholly deep black except the bright red dorsal 

 line, which is yellowish at incisions of segments ; hair barbed 



