. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 192 ARCTIADJS. Head and thorax orange ; antennae black; abdomen scarlet above. Fore wing orange. Hind wing scarlet. Ab. 1. ferrnginosa. Fore wing browner, with traces of diffused dark antemedial, medial, and subterminal lines, sometimes with a whitish spot below origin of vein 2 ; hind Fig- 111- wing sometimes with blackish Holomelina aurantiaca, J. \. subterminal spots in discal and submedian folds. Ab. 2. hrevicornis. Hind wing with subterminal band sometimes
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 192 ARCTIADJS. Head and thorax orange ; antennae black; abdomen scarlet above. Fore wing orange. Hind wing scarlet. Ab. 1. ferrnginosa. Fore wing browner, with traces of diffused dark antemedial, medial, and subterminal lines, sometimes with a whitish spot below origin of vein 2 ; hind Fig- 111- wing sometimes with blackish Holomelina aurantiaca, J. \. subterminal spots in discal and submedian folds. Ab. 2. hrevicornis. Hind wing with subterminal band sometimes nearly complete, sometimes interrupted at middle and not reaching costa ; a discoidal spot sometimes present. Ab. 3. ruhicundaria=marginata. Hind wing with discoidal spot and continuous terminal band; fore wing browner; hind wing usually orange tinged with scarlet. Ab. 4. quinaria. Fore wing with white spots more or less deve- loped below base and end of cell, in end of cell, and a postmedial series ; the colour sometimes red-brown ; hind wing with subter- minal maculate band, the cilia sometimes black. Hab. Canada, Hudson's Bay, type ferruginosa^ Eenfrew Co., Grote Coll. ; , Atlantic States, New York, Massachusetts, Texas, Florida, Grote and Zeller Colls., type hrevicornis'^ Mexico, Jalapa {Trujillo), 1 d*, 1 $ , Cordova (Rumeli), 1 c?, 2 $ , Orizaba (Godman) 1 d", Coatepec (^roo/;*), 1 c? , Vera Cruz (ff. H. Smith), 1 (S , 1 $ , Durango (Forrer), 1 S ; Guatemala, Duenas (Champion), 4 (5", 1 $ , type marginata. Eocp. 16-28 millim. *1574. Holomelina costata. (Plate XLII. fig. 15.) Crocota costata, Stretch, Ent. Am. i. p. 103 (1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 352. Crocota opelloides, Graef, Ent. Am. iii. p. 42(1887); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 353. (S . Head and thorax fuscous grey; palpi scarlet except at tips; vertex of head scarlet with a fuscous spot; pectus, coxae, and base of femora scarlet; abdomen scarlet, the ventral surface yellow-brown. Fore wing fuscous grey, th
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