44 NOCTUIDJS. 



Underside of fore wing black-brown, with large curved yellowish 

 discal patch. 



Ab. 1. cethio/js. Fore wing almost entirely black except the 

 reniform stigma. 



Ab. 2. carhonaria. Like cethiops, but the underside of fore wing 

 yellow with the marginal areas dark. — S.E. Siberia. 



Huh. Canada, Labrador; U.S.A., Colorado ; Britain, Scotland, 

 Leech Coll.; France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Switzerland, Frey 

 Coll.; Spain, Aragon ; Norway, Zeller Coll.; Kussta, Finland, 

 Leech Coll., Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals ; 

 N.E, Siberia ; Amukland. Exp. 26-28 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 87 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 223, pi. 2.50. f. 3. 



Purplish brown mixed with black ; dorsal line whitish ; sub- 

 dorsal line indistinct ; subspiracular line brownish ochreous marked 

 with red. Food-plant, Vaccininm. 7-8. 



*1181. Anarta mimiili. 



Anar/a mhnidi, Behr. Cal. Ac. Sci. 18S5, p. G2; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Amer. 

 p. 2U5. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish. Fore wing blackish : the 

 lines indistinct and slightly defined by whitish ; the subterminal 

 line expanding into a spot at tornus. Hind wing yellow, with 

 prominent black terminal baud. 



Hah, U.S.A., California. Exp. — ? Tliis si)eciesisunknowntome. 



Larva. Similar to that of A. myrt'dli. Food-plants : Eunanus 

 tolmuei, Antirrliiniun Icingii, and MimuJus scropliularia. 



1182. Anarta impingens. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 14.) 



Anarta impingens, Wlk. xi. 700 (1857); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 294. 

 Mamestra carta, M(jrr. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. xi. p. % (187-5). 

 Anarta nivaria, Grote, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. xi. p. 107 (1875). 

 Orthosia perpura, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 6G. 



c? . Head and thorax lilacine grey irrorated with fuscous ; abdo- 

 men reddish brown. Fore wing lilacine grey irrorated with brown ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line rather oblique, waved, strongly excurved at sub- 

 median fold ; claviform represented by a slight blackish mark ; 

 orbicular and reniform very indistinctly defined, the former round, 

 a strong diffused medial shade passing between them ; postmediul 

 line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, theu 

 strongly incurved ; sul)terminal line pale, defined on inner side by 

 a brown shade and an ill-defined series of small dentate dark marks, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of dark lunules. Hind wing yellowish, suffused with reddish 

 brown, and with a diffused terminal brown band broad at apex, 

 narrowing to tornus ; a dark discoidal lunule ; cilia yellowish ; the 

 underside yellower, the discoidal luuulc prominent, a terminal scri(.'s 

 of dark striffi. 



2 . Much darker. 



