460 



AECTIAD^. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing ^ith the markings orange-yellow. 



a. petrosa. Fore wing with the markings whitish. — U.S.A. 



b. cce-spitis. Fore wing with the markings orange-yellow. 

 Hah. Europe, Britain, France, Germany, Zeller Coll., Switzer- 

 land, Zeller and Frey Colls., Norway, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; 

 Caucasus, 1 d" , 2 $ , Zeller Coll. ; Amur, 5 c? , 3 $ ; Turkestan, Kuku- 

 Noor, 1 (S ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 4 <5 , 2 $ , (Fenton) 3 c? , types 

 leucomera, macromera, and melanomera ; Alaska, 1 5 , Crete Coll. ; 

 Br. Colombia ; Canada ; U.S.A., Colorado {Ld. Derby, Cocherell), 

 4 (^,3 $ , tyye petrosa, California. Exj). 36-46 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 41 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 263, pi. 74. f. 2. 



Black ; hair black or dark brown ; on somites 4-6 bright red- 

 brown, sometimes reddish on sides ; head black. Food-plants, 

 Myosotis, Plantago, etc. 8-4. 



Genus EUCHARIA. 



Type. 



Eucharia,"ax\hr\. Verz. p. 181 (1827) festiva. 



Ammobiota, Wllgrn. Skand. Het. ii. p. 304 (1880) festiva. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to well beyond the frons ; head, 

 thorax, and abdomen clothed with woolly hair ; antennae of male with moderate 

 branches, of female with short branches, the shaft roughly scaled above ; tibia? 

 smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from before 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 close to angle of 

 cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



2055. Eucharia festiva. 



Bomhyx festiva, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. ii. (4) pp. 416, 437 (1766) ; Kirbv, Cat. 



Het. p. 264. 

 Bomhyx hebe, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. (2) p. 820(1767) ; Esp. Schmett. iii. p. 181, 



pi. 34. ff. 1-4 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ff. 129, 296 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. iv. 



p. 306, pi. 31. ff. 1, 2 ; Mill. Icones Lep. ii. p. 17, pi. 63. ff. 1, 3; Staud. 



Cat. p. 57. 

 Fhalcena monacha, Fourcr. Ent. Paris, ii. p. 260 (1785). 

 Chelonia interrogationis, Men. Cat. Lep. Pet. iii. p. 147, pi. 15. f. 1 (1863) 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 2(55. 

 Arctia hebe, var. sartha, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlviii. p. 82 (1887) ; Hour. 



Berl. ent. Zeit. xxxii. p. 497, pi. 7. ff. 5-7. 

 Arctia hehe, ab. albicans, Fuchs, Jarb. Nass. "V'er. Iii. p. 128 (1899). 



Fig. 200. — Eucharia festiva, J . 



Head and thorax velvety blue-black ; edges of tegulge crimson ; 

 fore coxae crimson with black spots; abdomen blue-black, with 



