610 CATALOGUE OF 



Var. y, male. Inner border of the hind wings reddish. 



Var. d, male. Hind wings almost spotless. 



Var. t, male. Fore wings with no pale oblique bands towards 

 the tips. 



Var. Cfem. like var. e. Hind wings red, with broad blackish 

 borders. Abdomen wholly brown, except on each side above towards 

 the base. 



Var. rj,fem. Fore wings with testaceous veins ; fore stripe and 

 part of the middle stripe almost wanting. 



a — e. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



/. United States. From Mr. Milne's collection. 



g. Massachusetts. From Prof. Sheppard's collection. 





27. Arctia Phyllira. 



Alee anticce nigrce lineis albidis apicalibus, liter am B referentibus ; 

 posticce sanguinece maculis nigris. 



Phalaena (Bombyx) Phyllira, Drury, Ins. i. 15, pi. 7, f. 2. Append. 



v. 2. Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 94, 236. Abbot and Smith, Nat. 



Hist. Lep. Ins. Georg. ii. 127, pi. 64. 

 Callimorpha Phyllira, Westw. Drury, i. 15, pi. 7, f. 2. 

 Euplagia Phyllira, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 180, 1861. 



a. United States. From Mr. Milne's collection. 

 b—d. ? 



28. Arctia Placentia. 



Nigro-fusca ; alee anticce gutta una aut maculis tribus pallide testa- 

 ceis ; posticce rubra, margine maculisgue nonnullis submargina- 

 libus nigro-fuscis ; abdomen supra rubrum maculis dorsalibus 

 apiceque nigro-fuscis. 



Phalaena Placentia, Abbot and Smith, Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. Georgia, 



ii. 129, pi. 65. 

 Heraclia Placentia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 180, 1857. 



Var. a. Fore wings with the outer fringe partly pale testaceous, 

 and with several spots and dots of the same colour in the disk. 



Var. (3. Fore wings with the outer friuge wholly blackish 

 brown, unspotted, except two very minute pale testaceous dots. 



a, b. North America. From Mr. Milne's collection. 



