ARCTIA. 



465 



Oiwake (Pryer), 1 $ , Tokio (Fenton), 1 S, 2 $ , type auripennis,. 

 Yokohama (Jonas,* Pry e7\ Lewis), type $ phc^osoma, W\Wo {Maries) r 

 is, 2 $ ; Alaska ; Vancouver I., 1 c^ , 1 $ ; Be. Columbia i 

 U.S.A., N.E. States, Buffalo, 1 J , 1 2 , Grote Coll. 



Subsp. 2. utahensis, H. Edw. Ent. Am. ii. p. 166 (1887). 



Head and tegulae crimson, the latter with a broad white band in 

 front ; abdomen scarlet ; hind wing yellow. 



Hah. U.S.A., Utah, Colorado {Bruce), 1 6 . 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 42 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. p. 268, pi. 71. f. 1. 



Black ; hairs very long, black and grey, browner on sides and on. 

 1st and 2nd somites reddish brown ; head black. Food-plants : 

 Uriica, Plantago, etc. 8-5. 



2060. Arctia tibetica. 



Arctia thihetica, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 101. f. 12 (1874) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind.. 



ii. p. 17 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 269. 

 Arctia suttadra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 395 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 16 ;, 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 265. 

 Arctia cajula, Stand. Ent. Mo. Mag. xxii. p. 258 (1886) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 259. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown; palpi whitish, brown at tips 

 and fringed with scarlet below ; antennae black, with the basal joint 



Fig. 20^.— Arctia tibetica, J . \. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



scarlet ; tegulae edged with scarlet and white in front and at sides ; 

 patagia with whitish outer edge ; thorax with scarlet stripes ; legs 

 striped with white, the femora scarlet above ; abdomen blue -black, 

 with scarlet segmental lines and anal tuft. Fore wing red-brown ; 

 a small white subbasal spot below costa and a patch below the cell 

 with two brown spots on it ; an antemedial often interrupted band 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold where it is angled, and ending 

 on vein 1 ; an oblique medial wedge-shaped bar from costa to median 

 nervure ; a small postmedial spot below vein 2 ; an oblique band 

 from costa beyond middle to tornus with very irregular edges, often 

 giving off a spur on inner side at vein 3 towards inner margin ; some 

 spots or a maculate band from costa before apex bent outwards to 

 near termen at vein 6, then inwards to join the postmedial band at 

 vein 4. Hind wing scarlet ; an oblique antemedial band from costa 

 to submedian fold, with a spot below it on vein 1 ; a discoidal point 

 usually present ; a large irregular subterminal spot from costa to 



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