50 



NOCTUIDiE, 



1192. Lasiestra uniformis. (riatc LXXIX. fig. 21.) 



Scof.oqramma unifonnis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 58, pi. ii. f. 12 

 (18'J4); Dyar,'Cat.. Lep. N. Am. p. 159. 



Head and thorax dull brown mixed with greenish grey ; abdomen 

 brown mixed with grey. Fore wing dull brown tinged with greeni.sh 

 grey ; an indistinct waved autemedial line ; stigmata very obscurely 

 defined by brown and with rather darker marks between tbem ; 

 postmedial line slightly waved, excurvcd from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved and again excurved at vein 1 ; cilia rather paler, with a 

 dark line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia yellowish, 

 Avith a fuscous line through them ; the underside grey thickly irro- 

 rated with brown, a large discoidal lunule and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Laggan ; U.S.A., Colorado, 1 ,S • Exp. 

 40 millim. 



Sect. II. Antenna; of male (uliatecl. 



A. Fore wing with the grouud-colour bluish or purplish grey. 



a. Fore wing without terminal series of small black spots dovrcnsis. 



b. Fore wing with terminal series of small black spots. 

 a}. Fore wing with the ground-colour blue-grey. 



a?. Fore wing not tinged with olive clvrn. 



b'^. Fore wing tinged wit h olive ddiciotta. 



h^ . Fore wing with the ground-colour purplish grey fcrplcxa. 



B. Fore wing grey tinged with olive-brown fcrsa. 



1193. Lasiestra dovrensis. 



Bianihcecia dovrcnsis, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1804, p. 182; id. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. W\. 

 Dianthvecia (dtaica, Staud. Iris, v. p. 3G6 (1892). 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white ; tarsi blackish, 

 ringed with white ; abdomen brown irrorated with gre}'. Fore 

 wing black-brown thickly irrorated with grey-white ; subbasal line 



Fig. 15. — Lasiestra dovrensis, (^ . }-. 



defined by white on outer side, waved from costa to subraedian 

 fold ; anteraedial lino irregularly waved, defiiied by white on inner 

 side ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, defined by black, the former grey, round or produced to a point 

 on outer side, the latter dark ; postmedial lino highly dentate, 

 defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then obli<iue ; subterminal line grey, defined by dentate 



