EUARCTIA. — ARCTIA. 4631 



*2058.. Euarctia proserpina. 



Euarctia proserpina, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit, xlviii. p. 79 (1887); Gr.-Gr. 

 Eom. Mem. iv. pi. xix. f. 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 256. 



(S . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; abdomen ochreous brown, 

 with a darker dorsal stripe tapering to a point before extremity. 

 Fore wing ochreous tinged with brown ; the base fuscous brown ; 

 four rather broad fuscous-brown bands excurved below costa and 

 incurved below the cell ; a paler subterrainal band diffused to termen 

 in places. Hind wing ochreous, with large blackish discoidal lunule 

 and subterminal series of points on the veins except veins 3, 4. 



$ . Abdomen ochreous with the three terminal segments black. 

 Hind wing with indistinct maculate subterminal band, with two more 

 distinct spots towards tornus. 



Hab. C. Asia, Samarkand, Oche, Chakbimardan. Exp., J 60, 

 $ 70 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



Larva. Dull brown ; head black with two pale spots ; legs black ; 

 a sublateral series of white spots ; ventral surface pale ochreous 

 brown ; hair sparse, pale. Eood-plants, Artemisia and Euphorbia, 



Genus ARCTIA. 



Type. 



Arctia, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. (2) p. 152 (1802) caia. 



Zoote, Hiibn. Verz. p. 181 (1827) caia. 



Hypercompa, Hiibn. Tentamen, p. 1, ined. caia. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to just beyond the frons ; antennje 

 of male bipectinate with moderate brancheSj of female serrate ; head, thorax, 

 and base of abdomen dorsally clothed with woolly hair ; tibiae with the spurs 

 short. Fore wing broad ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 5 from j ust 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 near angle of cell ; 5 from 

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



A. Fore wing with postmedial and subterminal lines conjoined 



at vein 4. 



a. Fore wing red-brown. 



a^. Antennae with the shaft white above caia. 



b^. Antennae with the shaft black above, except sometimes 



at extremity tibetica. 



b. Fore wing deep black intercalaris. 



B. Fore wing with large spots and no transverse lines villica. 



2059. Arctia caia. 



Bombyx caia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 500 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iii. p. 167 

 pis. 30-32; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ii. ff. 130. 131 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 

 Haust. ii. p. 69 ; Godt. L6p. Fr. iv. p. 300, pi. 30. fF. 1-3 ; Menetr. Cat. 

 Lep. Pet. iii. p. 148, pi. 15. ff. 2, 3 ; Mill. Icones Lep. ii. p. 23, pi. 53. 

 ff. 6, 7 ; Staud. Cat. p. 57 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 258. 



Thalmna erinacea, Retz. Gen. Spec. Ins. p. 36 (1783). 



Arctia caja, var. wiskotti, Staud. Hor. Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 333 (1878). 



Arctia orierttalis, Moore, A. M. N. H, (5) i. p. 230 (1878) ; Hmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 16 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 259. 



Head and thorax red-brown : palpi fringed with scarlet below ; 



