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PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

John. B. Smith
Affiliation:
New Brunswick, N. J.

Extract

As the description of this species is not readily accessible to students, I reproduce it here:-

“Female rosy red; body densely clothed, and partly pale yellow beneath; head with a pale yellow band on the front; palpi extreemely short; thorax with six longitudinal pale yellow streaks; abdoment rosy, lanuginous and partly yellow to the base, extending much beyond the hind wings; fore wings with some pale yellowish streaks toward the base, with three exteriro whitish macular, very oblique bands; spots mostly cuneiform; cost straight; tips slightly acute; exterior borders slightly convex, extremely oblique; first and second inferior veins contiguous at the base; third very near the second; fourth remote from the third; hind wings whitish cinereous, slightly hyaline; veins and fringe slightly yellowish.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1890

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