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EUARCTIA; ARCTIA. By Dr. W. v. Rothschild. 
transversa. 
ricini. 
zerah. 
lichenigera. 
suttadra. 
thibetica. 
i intermedia, 
lutea. 
alpherakyi. 
orientalis. 
P. transversa Moore (19 d). Head greyish-white; antennae black; thorax greyish-white, clotted black: 
abdomen red with a white anal tuft, and median and lateral rows of black transverse bands. Forewing greyish- 
white with four curved zig-zag transverse bands of black spots. Hindwing greyish-white, with some black 
submarginal dots and a similar discoidal spot. Length of forewing: 16, $ 20 mm. North West India. 
P. ricini F . ( — ocellifera Wkr., clavatus Sivinh.) (25 a, b). A most variable animal. Head and antennae 
generally dark earth-coloured grey; thorax grey, one black spot encircled by a golden colour each on the tegulae 
and shoulder-covers; abdomen carmine, more or less tinged yellow, forewing ash-grey, traversed by 5 to 7 
transverse bands of blackish-grey spots margined with yellow. Hindwing pinkish carmine, in the with blackish- 
grey spots and in the $ with 3 broad, greyish-black transverse bands often interrupted in many places. — ab. 
zerah Cr. (25 b) has yellow hindwings and abdomen. Length of forewing: 18 to 28 mm, $ 22 to 35 mm. In 
the whole of India and Ceylon. 
12. Genus: JEaiaretsa Stgr. 
Tongue stunted; palpi porrect, extending beyond the vertex; antennae of the $ filiform, those of the q 
dentate; tibiae with short spurs; head, thorax and abdomen roughly haired. Vein 3 of the forewing rises from 
the lower cell-angle; 4 and 5 from the angle; 6 from the upper angle; 9 and 10 are fused with 8 and form the 
areola and rise together from the latter; 11 from the cell. Veins 3 and 5 of the hindwing rise close at the lower 
cell-angle; 6, 7 from the upper angle; 8 from the middle of the cell. -—- Larva brown with lateral rows 
of large, white spots. Hair short, yellowish, in small, far-strewn tufts, each tuft on a tubercle. Each abdominal 
ring with 2 rows of such tubercles. Two species, of which E. proserpina (Vol. II, p. 97, t. 17 h) is purely pa- 
learctic, whilst E. lichenigera extends into the Indian region. 
E. lichenigera Fldr. (Vol. II, p. 97, t. 17 g). head and thorax greyish-brown, mixed with yellow; 
abdomen yellow, on each side of the two last rings large, blackish-brown maculae. Forewing lavender-grey 
with 5 broad, irregular, yellow transverse bands which like the ground-colour are very much strewn with small, 
blackish-brown dots; hindwing pink, with two interrupted, greyish-black transverse bands and a proximal 
nebulous band. like the $, but with a large anal tuft and one-coloured yellow abdomen. Length of forewing: 
$ 35, o 34 mm. North West Himalaya and Ladak. 
13. Genus: Arctia Schrank. 
Distinguished from Euarctia by the doubly combed antennae of the q and serrate-dentate antennae 
of the only the base of the abdomen clad with long hair. Vein 5 of the forewing rises directly above the 
lower cell-angle; 6 just in front of the upper angle; 9 and 10 are fused with 8 and form an areola; 11 separate. 
Vein 3 of the hindwing rises near the lower cell-angle, 5 right above the angle; 6, 7 from the upper angle; 
8 from the middle of the cell. About 18 to 20 forms, only two of which, however, are met with in the Inclo- 
Australian region. 
A. thibetica Flclr. This species comprises several forms, ab. suttadra Moore (Vol. II, 18 a, as thibetica). 
Palpi whitish; antennae dark brown, with a white spot somewhat before the tip. Head and thorax pale liver- 
coloured, tegulae and shoulder-covers margined with white; abdomen red, with a dorsal longitudinal row of 
black transverse stripes. Forewing light liver-coloured, with four white maculae in the basal third, a white, 
median transverse band from the costa through the cell as far as the median, a white spot between the veins 
1 and 2, and an oblique, white band from the costa above the cell-end as far as the distal-marginal angle, 
a white zig-zag line before the apex. Hindwing bright red, a black luna in the cell and an interrupted, very 
broad, black submarginal band. $ like the A, but the white margins at the thorax are absent, and the 
black transverse spots of the abdomen form complete rings. -— The typical ab. thibetica Fldr. is distinguished 
by the black abdomen and by the almost entirely vanished white marking on the forewing. It is very much 
to be regretted that the species was founded on such an entirely abnormous specimen. -—- ab. intermedia ab. 
nov. has the forewings as in ab. thibetica, but the abdomen as in ab. suttadra. ■— ab. lutea ab. nov. has lighter 
forewings and light yellow, instead of red hindwings. Length of forewing: 23 mm. Caslimir and Chitral, 
as far as Simla. — aipherakyi Stgr. differs from thibetica thibetica by its smaller size and the dark blackish- 
brown colour of the forewings. Asiatic Russia. This local race has been overlooked bj^ Dr. Seitz (in Vol. II), 
as the imago is always mentioned as cajula Stgr. in the palearctic collections; cajula, however, has been described 
by StallingeR according to a specimen from North West India. 
A. caja. This wide-spread species reaches the Indo-Australian region in the form orientalis Moore 
(24 i). Antennae whitish; head and thorax very light liver-coloured; abdomen yellowish-red with black transverse 
bands on the 3rd to 7th abdominal ring. Forewing light liver-coloured, with white maculae and bands. Hindwing 
scarlet, a little mixed with yellow, a discoidal spot, 3 larger spots in the basal third and 3 larger spots in the 
distal third blackish-blue. Cashmir and North West Himalaya. (As to other forms of this species vid. Vol. II, 
p. 98 and 99, t. 18 a, b). 
