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UOCTUID-E. 



curved postmedial line ; cilia black and white ; the underside with 

 discoidal spot and prominent waved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Kampsliire, White Mts. Exp. 33 millira. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



Sect. III. (Anarta). Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. Hind wing bright yellow. 



a. Fore wing witli the ground-colour deep red mi/rtil'i. 



b. Fore wing witli the ground-colour blackish. 



a^. Fore wing with the reuiform filled in with whitish ... cordigera. 



h^. Fore wing witli the reniform not filled in with white ... mimuli. 



B. Hind wing yellowish, tinged with brown impingens. 



C Hind wing uniform brown phaa. 



D. Hnid wing white, sometimes completely sufi'used with fus- 

 cous on upperside. 



a. Fore wing broad, triangular. 



a^. Fore wing without whitish aimuli to the reniform onelanopa. 



b^. Fore wing with whitish annuli to the reniform mimula. 



h. Fore wing nari-ow, elongate. 



«'. Fore wing pale olive-grey mausi. 



b\ Fore wint; fuscous semblica. 



1179. Anar t a my r tilli . 



Noctua myrfilU, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 311 (1746); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 165. fi". 1-3; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 98; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



p. 286. pi. 118. f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit.Ent., Haust. iii. p. Ill ; Curt. Brit. 



Ent. pi. 145 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 218. 

 Anarta acadiensif, Beth. Tr. Nov. Soc. Ins. IN'at. Sci. ii. p. 84 (1869) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 292. 

 Anarta alj^ina, Eaetzer, Mitth. Scliweiz. ent. Ges. viii. p. 224 (1890). 



Head and thorax deep red, jialpi black at tips, lower part of 

 Irons, base of tegulae, middle and tips of patagia, and metathoracic 

 crest white, the vertex of head, tips of tegulaj, and greater part of 



Fig. Vd.— Anarta my rtiUi, J. 



thorax ochreous ; tarsi black banded with white ; abdomen black- 

 brown with ochreous segmental lines, the dorsal crest and anal 

 tuft red, the lateral hair ochreous, the ventral surface ochreous and 

 reel. Fore wing deep red, pale olive-brown in parts; the subbasal 

 line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, filled in with 

 white; the antemedial line double, oblique, waved, filled in with 

 olive-brown and white, the claviform a minute spur on its outer 

 side ; the medial area with more or less white suffusion and promi- 

 nent triangular spot on median nervure ; orbicular and reniform 



