. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 336 AECTIAD^. Sect. I. Fore wing with vein 5 from angle of cell. A. Fore wing white cunea. E. Fore wing blackish aspersa. 1852. Hyphantria cunea. Bomhyx cunea, Drury, 111. Ex. Ent. i. pi. 18. f. 4 (1773); Hiibn. Zutr. iii. ff. 405, 406 ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 205, pi. 8. ff. 18-20; Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 389 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 234. PJialcena punctatissima. Abbot & Smith, Lep. Ins. Georg. ii. pi. 70 (1797). Cycnia hudea, Hiibn.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 336 AECTIAD^. Sect. I. Fore wing with vein 5 from angle of cell. A. Fore wing white cunea. E. Fore wing blackish aspersa. 1852. Hyphantria cunea. Bomhyx cunea, Drury, 111. Ex. Ent. i. pi. 18. f. 4 (1773); Hiibn. Zutr. iii. ff. 405, 406 ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 205, pi. 8. ff. 18-20; Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 389 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 234. PJialcena punctatissima. Abbot & Smith, Lep. Ins. Georg. ii. pi. 70 (1797). Cycnia hudea, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. ii. ff. 387-388 (1827); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 237. Hyphantria textor, Harr. Eep. Ins. Mass. p. 255 (1841); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 234. Spilosoma mutans, Wlk. Tii. 1697 (1856); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 228. Hyphantria punctata, Fitch, Rep. Ins. iii. p. 387 (1856); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 234. 8piloso7na Candida, Wlk. xxxi. 291 (1864). Hyphantria pallida. Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 118 (1864) ; Skinner, Ent. News, i. p. 51 (1890); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 269. S. Pure white; palpi above and branches of antennae black ; patagia and thorax sometimes with black streaks ; fore coxae orange with black patches, femora orange above, tibiae and tarsi streaked with black; abdomen with fuscous bands or dorsal and lateral series of spots. Tore wing with slight black streaks at base ; ante- medial, medial, postmedial, and subterminal series of spots, the Ist angled outwards below cell, the 2nd on median nervure, the 3rd. Fig. 151.—Hyphantria cunea, (J. {. excurved from below costa to vein 3, then incurved, the last sinuous, its costal half formed by short streaks on each side of the veins and with some spots before it; spots in the angles of cell and a series on termen and cilia. Hind wing with small discoidal spot and subterminal spots above vein 5 and below 2 often absent. 2 . Fore wing with the spots reduced and the series more widely separated. Ab. 1. punctata. Fore win
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