. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Arctiidae. Fig. 71.—, $ .}. (After HampsoTi.) The of this species is the Rocky Mountains ot Alherta and Assiniboia. (4) Phragmatobia yarrowi Stretch. ( Yarrow's Tiger- moth.) Syn. rentissa Henry Edwards. This pretty little tiger - moth is found from the country south of Hudson Bay to British Columbia, and ranges thence southward along the higher mountain ranges as far as northern- Arizona. Genus M^NAS Hubner Only one species of this rather extensive genus,
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Arctiidae. Fig. 71.—, $ .}. (After HampsoTi.) The of this species is the Rocky Mountains ot Alherta and Assiniboia. (4) Phragmatobia yarrowi Stretch. ( Yarrow's Tiger- moth.) Syn. rentissa Henry Edwards. This pretty little tiger - moth is found from the country south of Hudson Bay to British Columbia, and ranges thence southward along the higher mountain ranges as far as northern- Arizona. Genus M^NAS Hubner Only one species of this rather extensive genus, which is represented in South America by five species and by a con- siderable number in Africa and the Indo-Malayan region, occurs in North America. (1) Maenas vestalis Packard, Plate XVI, Fig. s, ^ . (The Vestal Tiger-Moth.) This insect, which closely resembles Esiigniene roiignni, figured on the same plate, may be distinguished from the latter not only by structural peculiarities, but unfailingly by the ordinary observer, by the presence of the two black spots on the hind wings, as shown in our illustration. Genus DIACRISIA Hubner This large genus, which includes over one hundred and twenty-tive species, according to the arrangement given in Hampson's Catalogue, not reckoning the species referred to the genus /si\j, which he also places here, is represented ni our fauna bv four insects, of which we give illustrations. (ij Diacrisia virginica Fabricius. Plate XVI Fig. 7, !. (The Virginian Tiger-moth.) The form figured on our plate is the slight variety named fiimosa by Strecker in \\hich the fore wings are a little dusky at their tips as if thev had been Hying about in the smoke ot the furnaces at Reading or Pittsburgh. Ordinarily the species 127. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Holland,
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