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Banded Tiger-moth
Form radians Walker, Plate XV, Fig. 23, male, Fig. 21 female.
Form phalerata Harris, Plate XV, Fig. 6, female.
A very common and variable species, which is probably the same as A. nais Drury, which has the abdomen prevalently ochraceous, and not as strongly marked with black. The species seems to be, so to speak, in a liquid state. In a series of some hundreds of specimens before the writer, many of them bred from larvae, and undoubtedly all referable to the same species, any and all of the form, which have been named by writers, can be found, yet the bulk of them came from one narrow little ravine in western Pennsylvania. We leave the synonymy as it stands in Dyar's list, so far as the things figured on our plate are concerned, but cannot believe that these insects represent different species, as maintained by some authors.