. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 460 AECTIAD^. Ab. 1. Hind wing ^ith the markings orange-yellow. a. petrosa. Fore wing with the markings whitish.— b. cce-spitis. Fore wing with the markings orange-yellow. Hah. Europe, Britain, France, Germany, Zeller Coll., Switzer- land, Zeller and Frey Colls., Norway, Zeller Coll.; Armenia ; Caucasus, 1 d", 2 $ , Zeller Coll.; Amur, 5 c? , 3 $ ; Turkestan, Kuku- Noor, 1 (S ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 4 <5 , 2 $ , (Fenton) 3 c?, types leucomera, mac
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 460 AECTIAD^. Ab. 1. Hind wing ^ith the markings orange-yellow. a. petrosa. Fore wing with the markings whitish.— b. cce-spitis. Fore wing with the markings orange-yellow. Hah. Europe, Britain, France, Germany, Zeller Coll., Switzer- land, Zeller and Frey Colls., Norway, Zeller Coll.; Armenia ; Caucasus, 1 d", 2 $ , Zeller Coll.; Amur, 5 c? , 3 $ ; Turkestan, Kuku- Noor, 1 (S ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 4 <5 , 2 $ , (Fenton) 3 c?, types leucomera, macromera, and melanomera ; Alaska, 1 5 , Crete Coll.; Br. Colombia ; Canada ; , Colorado {Ld. Derby, Cocherell), 4 (^,3 $ , tyyepetrosa, California. Exj). 36-46 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 41 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 263, pi. 74. f. 2. Black ; hair black or dark brown ; on somites 4-6 bright red- brown, sometimes reddish on sides; head black. Food-plants, Myosotis, Plantago, etc. 8-4. Genus EUCHARIA. Type. Eucharia,"ax\hr\. Verz. p. 181 (1827) festiva. Ammobiota, Wllgrn. Skand. Het. ii. p. 304 (1880) festiva. Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porrect to well beyond the frons; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with woolly hair ; antennae of male with moderate branches, of female with short branches, the shaft roughly scaled above; tibia? smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from just below upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 2055. Eucharia festiva. Bomhyx festiva, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. ii. (4) pp. 416, 437 (1766); Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 264. Bomhyx hebe, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. (2) p. 820(1767); Esp. Schmett. iii. p. 181, pi. 34. ff. 1-4 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ff. 129, 296; Godt. Lep. Fr. iv. p. 306, pi. 31. ff. 1, 2; Mill. Icones Lep. ii. p. 17, pi. 6
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