406 ARCTIAD^. 



except the long posterior hairs ; warts of series ii with blue-black 

 bases, of iii, iv with brownish bases ; hairs from warts i-iii black, 

 from 4 shading into white, from 5, 6 pale salmon. 



7th stage. Eases of warts iii reddish. 



8th stage. Body black, mottled with whitish, posteriorly above 

 the black subdorsal band only ; warts of series iii reddish ; dorsal 

 stripe broad, vermilion, yellowish at incisions ; hair black, pale 

 laterally, pinkish subventraily. Food-plant, various low herbs. 



Cocoon a coarse network of silk among leaves or other material 

 on the ground, with no hair in its substance. 



Pupa cylindrical, rounded, abdominal segments tapering : 18 millim. 



Colour blackish mahogany with a white bloom ; cremaster short 

 and thick, slightly conical, with a terminal tuft of spiny hooks. 



*1960. Apantesis favorita. (Plate XLYIII. fig. 4.) 



Arctia favorita, Neum. Ent. Am. vi. p. 173 (1890) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 272. 



<S . Head and thorax pale crimson ; palpi, frons, antennae, a 

 spot on vertex of head, and stripes on tegulae, patagia, and thorax 

 black-brown ; pectus black at sides, legs streaked with black ; 

 abdomen crimson, with short dorsal black bands and lateral spots, 

 the ventral surface yellowish white with short sublateral bands. 

 Pore wing black ; the costa with whitish streak to beyond middle ; 

 the subbasal and antemedial bands represented by elongate expan- 

 sions of the costal fascia and short transverse bars from the sub- 

 median fascia ; a streak on basal part of vein 1 and a fascia on 

 inner margin ; the medial and postmedial bands broad, connected 

 by an oblique bar below costa, largely confluent at middle and 

 extending to below submedian fascia ; the subterminal band ob- 

 lique from costa to near termen at vein 5, bent inwards to lower 

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

 to the submedian fascia ; the pale bands with pink lines on them ; 

 cilia whitish. Hind wing deep rose-red, with black costal fascia 

 except at base ; subterminal spots above vein 5 and on veins 2 and 

 1 ; the terminal band formed by conjoined patches at apex, middle, 

 and above vein 1 ; cilia whitish. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the bands absent, except the postmedial 

 and subterminal. 



Hab. U.S.A., Rocky Mt. region. Exp. 42 millim. 



1961. Apantesis blacei. 



Arctia hlakei, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii. p. 523, pi. 5. f. 2 (18fi4) ; 



Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 224, pi. 9. f. 9 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 267. 

 Arctia nevadensis, Grote & Eob. Proc. Ent, Soc. Phil. vol. vi, p. 1, pi. 1. 



f. 1 (1866) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 268, 

 Arctia behrii, Stretch, Zjg, & Bomb, N, Am. p. 75, pi. 3. ff. 11, 12 (1872). 

 Arctia incorrupta, H. Edw, Papilio, i. p. 38 (1881). 

 Arctia ochracea, Neum. Papilio, iii. p. 151 (1883). 



