464 AECTIAD^. 



antennae with the basal joint scarlet, the shaft white above ; tegulas 

 edged with crimson, sometimes with a little white in front ; a white 

 streak often present above base of fore wing ; femora scarlet above, 

 the spurs whitish ; abdomen scarlet above, with dorsal black bands 

 except on basal and sometimes on terminal segments, the ventral 

 surface brownish with scarlet segmental lines. Fore wing red- 

 brown ; a subbasal white band angled on median nervure, connected 

 with the base by some irregular marks and emitting a streak in sub- 

 median fold to or towards the postmedial band; more or less developed 

 antemedial and medial triangular patches on costa ; the postmedial 

 band angled at middle ; the subterminal band oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, where it is bent outwards to near termen, then inwards to the 

 postmedial band at vein 4, then to termen at vein 2, where it is 

 connected with a V-shaped mark above tornus sometimes reduced 

 to a short oblique streak. Hind wing scarlet with blue-black spot 

 at origin of vein 2, sometimes with a small spot below it ; a discoidal 

 spot usually present ; three large subterminal spots, the upper some- 

 times connected with costa by a black patch. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the white markings more or less reduced 

 or altogether absent, sometimes replaced by grey-brown. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the white markings very extensive and 

 occupying the greater part of wing. 



Ab. 3. Hind wing with the black spots replaced by yellow. 



Ab. 4. wiscotti. All the scarlet markings replaced by yellow. 



Ab. 5. Hind wing and abdomen brownish red. 



Ab. 6. Hind wing more or less suffused with black, usually leaving 

 some red at base and on inner area and sometimes on termen. 



Hab. Europe, Britain, France, Germany, Zeller Coll., Switzerland, 

 Greece, Merlin Coll.; Armenia; JS'.W. Himalayas, Ksbshmiv (Thomp- 

 son), 3 c? , Dalhousie (Harford), 1 2 ? Allahabad (Hellard), 1 S 

 type orientalis ; Assam, Khasis, Sibsagar. Exp, 58-78 millim. 



Subsp. 1. americana, Harr. Kep. Ins. Mass. p. 246 (1841); Agassiz, Lake 

 Superior, p. 391, pi. 7. f. 5; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. pp. 95. 239, 

 pi. 4. f. 4. 

 Euprepia phcBOsoma, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 395 (1877) ; id. 111. Het. 



B. M. iii. p. 7, pi 42. f. 10 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 259. 

 Euprepia phcBosoma, var. auripe^inis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 7. 

 Euprepia opulenta, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 38 (1881) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 



p. 259. 

 Hypercompa caja, var. transmontana, Neum. & Dyar, Ent. News, iv. p. 214 

 (1893). 

 Tegulae with a broad white band in front. 



(a) jphceosoma. Abdomen and hind wing scarlet. — E. Siberia ; 



Japan ; Pacific N.-West. 



Ab. 1. opulenta. Fore wing with the white markings very 



extensive and occupying the greater part of wing. — ■ 



Amur ; Alaska. 



(h) americana. Abdomen scarlet ; hind wing yellow. — U.S.A., 



N. Atlantic States. 

 (c) auripennis. Abdomen and hind wing yellow. — Japan. 

 Hah, Altai ; Amur, 1 d* , 3 $ : Japan, Yezo (Pryer), 3 d , ^ 2 , 



