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about twelve pale yellow dots, which are mostly towards the borders. 

 Hind wings luteous, blackish at the base and along 1 the inner bor- 

 der, and with two black and somewhat undulating black bands, the 

 inner one furcated in front. Legs mostly clothed with red hairs. 



a. District watered bv the Mackenzie and Slave Rivers. Presented 

 by Sir J. Richardson. 



22. Arctia Parthenos. 



Alee anticce obscure fusca, maculis sparsis lactifloreis ; posticce 

 fulvo-flavce ; basi, macula, media triangularis fasciaque postica 

 undata nigris ; abdomen supra f us cum, apice fulvum. 



Arctia Parthenos, Harris, Agassiz, on Lake Superior ,390, pi. 7, f. 4. 



Lake Superior. 



23. Arctia Virgo. 



Albida ; thorax maculis duabus anticis vittisque tribus nigris ; 

 abdomen rufum, nigro trivittatum ; alee anticce nigra, vittis 

 quinque, venis apicalibus fasciisque obliquis interrvptis albidis ; 

 posticce rufce, nigro vnaculatce. 



Euplagia Virgo, Hubn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. Lep. iii. Phal. 



ii. Vera, viii. Callimorplia, B. Variegatce, 21, f. 1 — 4 ; Verz. 



Schmett. 180, 1859. 

 Arctia Virgo, Abbot and Smith, Nat. Hist. Lep. Lns. Georg. ii. 123, 



pi. 62. 

 Phalana Virgo, Linn. Mus. Lud. Uls. 381. Clerck, Icon. pi. 45, f. 



5. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2419, 39. 

 Bombyx Virgo, Fair. Sp. Ins. ii. 199, 123. Want. Ins. ii. 129, 178. 



Ent. Syst. ii. Oliv. Enc. Meih. v. 93, 233. 



a — d. Trenton Falls, New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 e. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



Var. ? Thorax incarnatus, maculis quinque nigris ; alee anticce 

 nigra, rivulis incarnaio pallidis ; posticce rubra, maculis 

 quinque nigris. 



Callimorpha Parthenice, Kirby, Fauna, Bor. Amer. iv. 303, 1. 



North America. 



24. Arctia Dione. 



Alee anticce rufescente-albidce, nigro maculates et lineatee ; postica 

 incarnatce aut albidee, maculis nigris nonnunquam Jlavo mar- 

 ginalia ; abdomen incarnatum, nigro macula turn. 



