30 XOCTUIDiE. 



suffusion on costal area and beyond postmedial line, the subterminal 

 line with prominent dentate black marks on inner side at middle. 



Hah. Canada (Norman), 2 S ■, Nova Scotia (Eedman), 2 (5' , 1 2 , 

 type alhifusa, Calgary ( Wolley Dod), 1 c? ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, 

 Beverly, 1 cJ , New York (Fuchs), 2 c?, 2 $ , Kansas, 2 § , Oregon 

 1 ^,3 $ type orego7uca, Arizona, Prescott (Kunze), 2 (5,2 $, 

 Phoenix, 1 c? , Pinal Mts., 2 J , Globe, 1 $ ; Chili, 1 S type 

 intermissa; Britain, Leech Coll. ; Franc k ; Germany, Zeller & Frey 

 Colls. ; Spain ; Italy ; Greece, 2 (^ ; Algeria {Mrs. JS'icholl), 1 $ ; 

 Scandinavia ; Russia, Livonia, 1 S ; Syria, 1 5 ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai, 1 S ; W. Turkestan, Transcaspia, 3 S ; Kashmir (PilcJier), 

 1 J , Scinde Valley (Ze^c7t), 1 cJ ; Punjab, Carapbollpur (J>/-i«r?/), 

 1 (S , Ferozpur (A'ttrae), 1 S ; hab. ign. 1 $ type inquieta ; Sikhim ; 

 Tibet. Yatung (Hobson), 1 c? ; Sokotra, Hadibu Plains (TF. E. 0. 

 Grant), 1 d" . Exp. 34-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 82 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 202, pi. 159. f. 2. 



Head luteous, darker reticulate. Body green or brown, finely 

 blackish streaked ; dorsal line fine, pale yellow, dark-edged ; sub- 

 dorsal line broader, black-bordered above ; substigmatal line broad, 

 vellowish on the edges, red filled, dark-edged above. Feet green ; 

 spiracles white. Food-plants, Chenopodium and Atriplex. 7-9. — 

 H. G. D. 



*1159. ? Scotogramma impolita. 



Mamestra impolita, Morr. Pr. Bost. See. N. H. xvii. \). 140 (1874); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 129. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with fuscous, tegulie 

 grey with black medial line. Fore wing whitish, almost wholly 

 suffused except the stigmata and postmedial area by black and 

 fuscous shades ; the scaling rough ; the lines interrupted ; subbasal 

 line present ; antemedial line single, irregular, ol)solete below the 

 claviform, which is large, rounded, whitish defined by black ; orbi- 

 cular and reuiform large, whitish with grey centres and defined by 

 black, the former oblique elliptical ; medial shade blackish, suffused, 

 irregular; postmedial line single, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa and strongly incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial area whitish, 

 especially below costa and before middle of subterminal line, which 

 is whitish defined by black shades before and beyond it, interrupted, 

 dentate on veins 4, 3 ; some white points on costa towards apex 

 and at base of cilia. Hind wing dark fuscous, paler towards base ; 

 cilia whitish ; the underside whitish, with discoidal point and post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Canada, Quebec. Exp. 36 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



*1160. ? Scotogramma hadeniformis. (Plate LXXXVL fig. 3.) 



Mamestra hadcniformix. Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxi. p. 55, pi. t. f. 4 

 (1894); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 155. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale luteous grey irrorated with 



