ANARTA. 45 



Hah. Canada, S. Br. Columbia {Lord Derby), 2 S type ; U.S.A., 

 Colorado, 2 (^ , 1 $ , type nivaria, Grote Coll. Ex^t., J 30, $ iJ-t 

 millim. 



1183. Anarta phsea, u. sp. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 15.) 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey ; tarsi 

 ringed wntli white. Fore wing dark brown suffused with grey and 

 irrorated with white ; subbasal line represented by black striae from 

 costa and median nervure ; a slight black streak in base of sub- 

 median fold; traces of a waved antemedial line; claviform rather 

 small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, whitish, 

 incompletely defined by black, the former round ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, incomplete, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then strongly incurved ; subterminal line represented by 

 whitish points with obscure dentate black marks on their inner 

 side. Hind wing pale brown with a greyish tinge, the cilia white, 

 brown at base ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown, 

 a discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Ilab. Arctic America, Victoria Land, Cambridge Bay (CoIUnson), 

 1^,1$ type. Ea'2). 34 millim. 



1184, Anarta melanopa. 



Koctua 7nelanopa, Thunb. Diss. Ent. ii. p. 42 (1791) ; Herr.-Scliaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 433-4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 218 ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 292. 

 Noctun alpicola, Quens. Acerbi's Trav. N. Cape, ii. p. 253, pi. 1. ft". 5, G 



(1802). 

 Nocfua vidua, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 403 (1827). 

 Noctua iristis, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 44(5 (1827). 

 Noctua rupesiris, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 644-5 (1827). 

 Pyralis rupestralis, Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Pvr. f. 138 (1827). 

 Anarta uiyro-lunata. Pack. Proe. Bost. Soc. N. H. xi. p. 40 (1867). 

 Anarta wistrbmi, Lampa, Ent. Tidskr. 1885, p. 81. 



Head and thorax black, clothed with grej' and olive-yellow hair ; 

 abdomen black, clothed with white hair, the dorsal crests olive- 

 yellow. Fore wing grey, irrorated with dark brown and largely 

 suffused with olive-yellow except on terminal area ; a waved black 

 subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line waved, nearly 

 erect, angled inwards in cell; claviform small, defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former small, round or 

 rather irregular, the latter large ; traces of a medial shade ; post- 

 medial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line only defined by a series 

 of dentate dark marks on its inner side and a more prominent ])atch 

 with pale points on it at costa ; a terminal series of black stri;e ; 

 cilia white intersected with brown. Hind wing Avhite, the inner 

 half suffused with fuscous ; a large black-brown discoidal lunule 

 and a broad terminal band with sinnous inner edge ; cilia ])uro 

 white. Underside of fore wing white, with black discoidal lunule 

 and excurved postmedial line ; hind wing with the costal and inner 



