444 ARCTIAD^. 



yellow bands above or entirely clothed with fulvous hair above 

 except the extremity, which is sometimes whitish. Hind wing 

 with the basal half whitish ; cilia of both wiugs greyish at tips. 



$ . Ochreous whitish, more or less strongly tinged with brown, 

 the anal tuft white ; the wings much aborted. 



Hah. Chili. Valparaiso {Edmonds^ J. J. Walker), 5 c? , 4 $ , type 

 and types tegulata, angustior, obscura. Exjj., S 30-34, $ 22 

 millim. 



Larva, Black, with metallic blue tubercles clothed with short 

 hair which is greyish on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th somites, on the others 

 reddish-brown on dorsum, grey at sides. Food-plants, various low 

 herbs. 



Cocoon slight, of white silk mixed with hair, emerges in 

 January and February. 



2027. Mallocephala deserticola. 



Bomhyx deserticola, Berg, Acta Acad. Nac. Cordova, i. pp. 78, 157 (1875) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 275. 



S . Head and thorax grey-brown ; abdomen wliitish, tinged with 

 yellow and grey above. Fore wing grey-brown ; the costal edge 



Fig. 185. — Mallocephala deserticola, c?. \. 



and cilia at tips whitish. Hind wing white, some specimens with 

 more or less grey suffusion on apical area. 



$ . Brownish, ochreous, or whitish, the anal tuft white. 



Hah. Argentina (Leech), 1 (5, Colon {Oldfield Thomas), 4 d ; 

 Patagonia. Exj). 38 millim. 



Genus ANTARCTIA. 



Type. 



Antarctia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 191 (1827) brunnea. 



Motada, Wlk. iv. 924 (1855) lateralis. 



Massicyta, Wlk. vii. 1712 (1856) fusca. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, clothed with rough hair ; head and thorax 

 clothed with rough hair, the head retracted ; antennae of male bipectinate, 

 with long branches, of female with short branches ; tibiae clothed with rough 

 hair, the spurs short ; abdomen clothed with rough hair, male with lateral 

 tufts towards extremity, female with large anal tuft. Fore wing broad; vein 3 

 from near angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle; 6 from just below upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 free. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from towards angle of cell ; 5 from or from above angle ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



