. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 344 AECTIADiE. 1868. Estigmene acraea. Bomhyxacraa, Drurv, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 3. f. 2 (1773); Abbot & Smith, Lep. Georg. ii. pi. 67 ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 99, pi. 4. ff. 1-3 ; Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 110; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 226. Bomhya: caprotina, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 3. f. 3 (1773); Stoll, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 287,0. Arctia pseuderminea, Harv. Rep. Ins. Injur. Yeg. p. 354 (1841). Cycnia dubia, Wlk. iii. p. 682 (1855)
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 344 AECTIADiE. 1868. Estigmene acraea. Bomhyxacraa, Drurv, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 3. f. 2 (1773); Abbot & Smith, Lep. Georg. ii. pi. 67 ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 99, pi. 4. ff. 1-3 ; Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 110; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 226. Bomhya: caprotina, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 3. f. 3 (1773); Stoll, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 287,0. Arctia pseuderminea, Harv. Rep. Ins. Injur. Yeg. p. 354 (1841). Cycnia dubia, Wlk. iii. p. 682 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 227. Leucarctia californica. Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 121 (1864). Spilosoma mexicana, Wlk. xxxi. 291 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 227. Leucarctia packardii, Schaup, Check-list Brooklyn Ent. Soc. p. 8 (1882). Leucarctia rickseckeri, Behr, Zoe, iv. p. 247 (1893). Leucarctia acrcea, var. klagesii, Ehrmann, Can. Ent. 1894, p. 292. Bombyx menthrastrina, Martyn, Psyche, pi. 15. f. 38, ined. J. 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 tibiee 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; live black spots on costa; a basal black point; obliquely placed antemedial black points below. Fig. 153.—Estigmene acrcBu, (^. \. 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
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