LASIESTRA. 49 • 



Scntoqramma luteola, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 57, pi. 2. f. 10 

 (1894) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 159. 



Head and thorax clothed with dull brown and grey hairs mixed ; 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen yellowish brown mixed with grey. 

 Fore wing dull brown thickly irrorated with grey ; an indistinct 

 antemedial line oblique from costa to submedian fold, where it is 

 angled ; stigmata represented by very obscure grey marks with 



Fig. 14. — Ladestra phoca, (^ . \. 



darker marks between them; postmedial line somewhat dentate, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, inwardly oblique to submedial 

 fold near antemedial line, then excurvcd ; faint traces of a sub- 

 terminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal and 

 submedian fold ; cilia grey with a brown line through them. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown with a greyish tinge ; the cilia grey ; the 

 underside grey tinged with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and 

 curved postmedial line, 



Ilah. Canada, Labrador, 1 cJ , Alberta, Calg,arj (WoUei/-Dod), 1 2 , 

 Laggan, 2 5 . Ea-p. 34 millim. 



1191. Lasiestra promulsa. (Plate LXXIX, fig. 20.) 



Mamestra promulsa, Morr. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. xi. p. 97 (1875); 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 129. 

 Scofogramma infuscata. Smith, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vii. p. 42 (1899) ; 



Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 1.59. 



5 . Head and thorax yellowish grey mixed with brown ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen ochreous thickly irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing brownish ochreous thickly irrorated with dark brown ; 

 traces of a waved, dark subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; an 

 indistinct, waved, dark antemedial line ; stigmata absent ; a very 

 indistinct diffused medial shade ; postmedial line dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, cxcurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line only defined by the dark shade on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia chequered fuscous 

 and ochreous. Hind wing ochreous irrorated with brown, and the 

 terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia ochreous, with dark line at 

 base ; the underside ochreous irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal 

 point and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 $ . Exp. 36 millim, 



VOL. V. K 



