46 NOCTUTD.IC. 



areas slightly irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and broad 

 terminal band. 



Ab. 1. vistroemi.' Fore ■\viug without grey irroration, the under- 

 side with dark terminal band. 



Ab. 2. rupesiraUs. Hind wing entirely or almost entirely suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Hah. Canatia, Labrador, Frey & Grote Colls., 4 J' , 4 2 ; U.S.A., 

 New Hampshire, Mt. Washington (Dimmoch), 1 c? , Colorado, 1 c? , 

 1 2 , Natt Canon (Oslar), 3 c? , 1 2 , B. Park, New Mexico, Taos 

 Peak, 2 c?, Grote Coll.; Britain, Shetland, Leech Coll., llannock 

 (Salvage) ; Switzerland. Frey Coll. ; Italy, Alps ; Norway, Bergen, 

 Zeller Coll., Dovrefield, Lapland, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Saveden. 

 Exp. 20-30 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 87 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 219, pi. 250. f. 2. 



Rosy purple ; dorsal line ochreous-brown edged with dark grey 

 and marked with reddish spots; subdorsal lino yellowish, black- 

 edged, with series of black marks above and below it ; spiracular 

 line pale yellow marked with red. Food-plant, Vaccinium. 6-7. 



*1185, Anarta mimula. 



Anarta mimula, Grote, Trans. Kans. Ac. Sci. viii. p. 48 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 295. 



(5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous black. Fore wing blackish 

 tinged with olive ; the lines blackish, interrupted ; orbicular a minute 

 annulus ; reniform with dark centre and yellowish-white annulus ; a 

 white mark in submedian fold before the postmedial line ; subterminal 

 line with interrupted white marks ; some white points on costa 

 towards apex ; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing fuscous 

 with the cilia white, the discoidal spot and band of underside show- 

 ing through ; a terminal series of black points. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico. Exp. 25 millim. This specic« is 

 unknown to me. 



11 80. Anarta maiisi. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 1(5.) 

 Anarta mausi, Pi,ing. ined. 



Head and thorax pale olive-grey ; abdomen black clothed with 

 white scales, dorsally tinged with olive. Fore wing pale olive-grey 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous : an indistinct olive-brown subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold : a strong waved antemedial line ; 

 reniform a small blackish lunule ; an indistinct antemedial line 

 angled inwards in submedian fold ; a minutely dentate postmedial 

 line excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved and bent outwards 

 again above inner margin ; subterminal line diffused on inner side, 

 interrupted below vein 7, somewhat dentate, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a slightly darker waved olive 

 terminal line; cilia white, with a dark line through them. Hind 

 wing yellowish white; the inner area to middle of cell suffused 



