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CATALOGUE OF 



Hypercompa interrupto-marginata, Clms. Proc. Nat. Sci. Philad. 



xii. 161. 

 Hypercompa comma, Cat. Lep. Het. iii. 652. 



Virginia and Wisconsin. 



Hypercompa virginalis. 

 Arctia virginalis, Cat. Lep. Het. iii. 611. 

 a — d. California. From M. Becker's collection. 



Hypercompa impleta. 



Fcem. Alba; caput antice nigrum ; thorax spatio antico maculas 

 tres includente, vitta postice dilatata guttisque duabus nigris ; 

 abdomen luteum, maculis atris trilineatum ; aim anticcenigrce, 

 maculis albis quinque fasciata ; posticus maculis nigris 

 trifasciatce, apud marginem interiorem subfiavescentes. 



Female. White. Head in front, palpi, antennas, pectus and 

 legs black. Fore part of the thorax black, including three white 

 spots; a black stripe dilated hindward ; a black dot on each of the 

 hind tegulae. Abdomen luteous above, with three rows of deep 

 black spots; tip deep black; under side with three rows of black 

 dots, of which those in the middle row are much smaller than the 

 others. Wings elongated. Fore wings black, with five irregular 

 oblique bands of large white spots; spots in the fourth band mostly 

 small; four white dots on the exterior border. Hind wings slightly 

 tinged with yellow towards the interior border, adorned with several 

 black spots, which form three very irregular and incomplete bands. 

 Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 32 lines. 



Hindostan. In Mr. Atkinson's collection. 



Genus AEEAS. 



Areas conflictalis. 



Mas. Rufa; thorax Jlavescente-albus,nigro octomaculatus, tegulis 

 anticis rufis ; abdomen maculis transversis nigris ; ala anticce 

 Jiavescente-albce, fasciis tribus fuscis obliquis indeterminatis 

 connexis, la basali late interrupta, 3a ex parte marginalia 

 guttis duabus basalibus nigris. 



