. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 344 AECTIAD^. 1868. Estigmene acraea. Bomhyxacrcea. Drurv, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 3. f. 2 (1773); Abbot & Smith, Lep. Georg. ii. pi. W ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 99, pi. 4. ft. 1-3 ; Druce, J3iol. , Het. i. p. IIG; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 22(i. Bomhyx caprotina, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 3. f. 3 (1773); Stoll, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 287,0. Arciia pseuder Cycnia dubia, ^ , > .,- Leiicarctia californica. Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 121 (l»b4) Spilosoma mexicana, Wlk. xxxi. 291 (1864); Kirby,
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 344 AECTIAD^. 1868. Estigmene acraea. Bomhyxacrcea. Drurv, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 3. f. 2 (1773); Abbot & Smith, Lep. Georg. ii. pi. W ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 99, pi. 4. ft. 1-3 ; Druce, J3iol. , Het. i. p. IIG; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 22(i. Bomhyx caprotina, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 3. f. 3 (1773); Stoll, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 287,0. Arciia pseuder Cycnia dubia, ^ , > .,- Leiicarctia californica. Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 121 (l»b4) Spilosoma mexicana, Wlk. xxxi. 291 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 227- LeucarcfAa packardii, Schaup, Check-list Brooklyn Eut. Soc. p. 8 (1882). Leucarctia ricJcseckeri, Behr, Zee, iv. p. 247 (1893). Leucarotia acrma, var. klagesii, Ehrmann, Can. Ent. 1894, p. Bomhyx menthrastrina, Martyn, Psyche, pi. 15. f. 38, ined. c?. Head and thorax white with a flesh-coloured tint; palpi black, fringed with orange below ; sides of frons and antennae black , pectus and legs orange, with black patches on fore coxae and femora, the tibiEG and tarsi black, banded with white ; abdomen orange,_the base and extremity and lateral stripes and ventral bands whitish; dorsal, lateral, sublateral, and ventral series of black spots. Fore wing white with a slight flesh tint; five black spots on costa; a basal black point; obliquely placed antemedial black points below. Fig. 153.—Estigmene acrcea, ^. \. cell and above vein 1: a medial series of four points; one or two points at lower angle of cell; a postmedial oblique series of points from below vein 6 to inner margin, sometimes with some points before their medial portion ; a terminal series of points; the spots often very much reduced. Hind wing orange, with black discoidal lunule and more or less complete subterminal series of spots. Underside of fore wing orange ; short subbasal black streaks on costa of each wing. 5 . Pure white ; abdomen with the ventral surface white ; fore wing sometimes
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