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CATALOGUE OF 



Body moderately stout. Head and thorax thickly clothed with 

 hairs. Proboscis shorter than the breadth of the head. Palpi 

 short, stout, porrect, hairy; second joint much longer than the first; 

 third conical, very minute. Abdomen extending as far as the hind 

 wings. Legs moderately stout ; hind tibiae with four rather long 

 spurs. Wings rather broad. Fore wings with the first and second 

 inferior veins contiguous at the base; third about eight times 

 further from the fourth than from the second. Male.— Antenna? 

 moderately pectinated. Female.— An ten n© very minutely pec- 

 tinateu. 



Nearly allied to Arctia and to Spilosoma. 



1. Ardices fulvohirta. 

 Alba; caput antice nigrum; palpi supra nigri ; antenna nigra; 

 thorax nigro trivittatus ; abdomen e maculis nigris trivitta- 

 turn, subtus nigro fas datum ; pedes nigri, subtus albi; aim 

 anliccB fasciis obliquis irregularibus fuscis, postice macula dis~ 

 call nonnullisque marginalibus fuscis. Mas.-— Thorax luteo 

 bimaculatus ; abdomen luteum. Fcem.— Thorax rufo bima- 

 culatus ; abdomen rufum. 



White. Head black in front. Proboscis testaceous. Palpi 

 black above. Antennae black, white at the base. Thorax very thickly 

 clothed with tawny hairs, with three short black stripes, which vary 

 much id breadth. Abdomen with three rows of black spots; under 

 side with black bands. Legs black, white beneath. Fore wings 

 with four or five irregular oblique brown bands, which vary in 

 breadth and outline, and occupy most of the surface, and are partly 

 confluent, though interrupted by the white veins. Hind wings with 

 one discal and several marginal and submarginal brown spots 

 Male,— Palpi thickly clothed beneath with luteous hairs. Thorax 

 with a luteous spot on each side in front. Femora and abdomen 

 luteous above. Female. — Thorax with a red spot on each side 

 in front. Femora and abdomen red above. Length of the body 

 7—8 lines ; of the wings 20—23 lines. 



a—c. Van Dieman's Land. Presented by Morton Allport, Esq 

 d—f. Van Dieman's Land. From Mr. A. J. Smith's collection 

 g—k. Van Dieman's Land. Presented by R. Butler, Esq. 

 /, m. Kangaroo Island. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 n. New Holland. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



