APANTESIS. 



409 



1965. Apantesis phyllira. 



Callimorpha phyUira, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 7. f. 2 (1773); Kirby, 



Oat. Het. p. 2rt7. 

 Nemeophila Jigurata, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 12. f. 4 (1773) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 269. 

 Geometra B-atra, Goeze, Ent. Beytr. iv. (3) p. 428 (1781). 

 Bomhyx plantagina, Martyn, Psyche, pi. 15. If. 36-7, ined. 

 Euplagia ceramico., Bubn.'Verz. p. 180 (1827). 

 ^ Arctia celia, Saund, Proc. Ent. Soe. Phil. ii. p. 59 (1863). 

 Arctia f-pallida, Streck. Eep. Chief Eng. 1878, App. S.S. p. 1860; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 268. 

 Arctia dodgei, Bull. Ent. Mo. Mag. xviii. p. 136 (1881); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 268. 

 Arctia excelsa, Neum. Pap. iii. p. 70 (1883) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 269. 

 Arctia lugubris, Hulst, Ent. Ami. ii. p. 182 (1887). 

 Arctia franconia, H. Edw. Ent. Am. iii. p. 184 (1888); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 269. 



Head and thorax pinkish white ; palpi, sides of frons, antennoc, 

 and stripes on tegulae, patagia, and thorax black, neck with some 

 crimson ; pectus and legs black, fore femora above and bands on 

 tibiae crimson ; abdomen crimson above, with dorsal maculate fascia 

 and lateral series of spots, the terminal segment and ventral surface 

 black. Fore wing black; pinkish fascioe on costa, above submedian 

 fold, and on inner margin ; an oblique medial band from costa to 

 submedian fascia, sometimes reduced to a discoidal bar ; an inwardly 

 oblique postmedial band from costa to submedian nervure ; the sub- 

 terminal band oblique from costa to near termen above vein 5, then 

 running to postmedial band at vein 4, then to termen at vein 2, and 

 inwards to submedian fascia which sometimes does not reach 

 termen ; cilia pinkish. Hind wing deep crimson ; the costal area 

 black except at base, emitting a discoidal lunule, and a subterminal 

 bar to vein 5 ; a spot on vein 2 and another on termen at vein 1 ; 

 a terminal band angled inwards at vein 4 ; cilia pinkish in places. 



Ab. 1. dodgei. Pore wing with the medial band absent, the 

 subterminal interrupted in places. 



Ab. 2. Jigurata. Fore wing with the subterminal band absent or 

 reduced to short streaks from postmedial band at vein 4 ; hind wing 

 with broad terminal band replacing the spots. 



Ab. 3. celia. Hind wing partly yellowish. 



Ab. 4. exceJsa. Fore wing with the medial and postmedial bands 

 not reaching costa, the subterminal band reduced to a <-mark ; 

 hind wing black ; vertex of head orange, the rest of pale markings 

 yellowish white. 



Ilah. U.S.A., Southern States to New York and New England, 

 Virginia, 6 cT , 1 2 > Grote Coll., $ type dodgei, Colorado {Bruce)^ 

 1 c? . Exp., S 40, $ 46 millim. 



Larva. Pack. J. N. Y. Ent. See. iii. p. 178. 



Stage 1. Head black ; body amber-yellow, the tubercles dark 

 brown, the two median ones minute, the two subdorsal large, the 

 two dorsal series one-haired, the subdorsal two-haired ; 2nd and 3rd 



