54 NOCTTJID^. 



*1198. Lasionycta rainieri. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 2."5.) 



Mamcdra Tainwrii, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat, Miis. xxii. p. 4G2 (1900) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



5 . Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with fuscous ; tarsi with 

 ■whitish rings ; abdomen fuscous mixed with grey. Fore wing 

 blue-grey overlaying fuscous, the medial area darker ; subbasal line 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line oblique, waved; 

 claviform moderate, defined by black and with some grey beyond it ; 

 orbicular and reniforra grey, defined by black and with some black 

 before and between them in cell, the former irregularly rounded, 

 the latter rather small ; postmedial lino dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series 

 of grey lunules, defined on inner side by dentate black marks, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing 

 grey suffused with fuscous ; the underside grey irrorated with 

 fuscous, a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington Terr., Mt. llainicr, in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Ex]^. 42 millim. 



*1199. Lasionycta iaconcinna. (Plate LXXX. fig. 1.) 



Scotogramma inconcinna. Smith, Pr. U.S.Nat. Mus. x. p. 469 (1887); id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 130. 



5 • Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with fuscous ; tegulcc with 

 whitish tips ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen pale brown mixed 

 with fuscous. Fore wing blue-grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 the medial area suffused with black ; subbasal line defined by grey 

 on outer side, waved from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 defined by grey on inner side, oblique, waved, angled inwards on the 

 veins ; claviform moderate, grey defined by black, acute at extremity; 

 orbicular and reniform large, grey defined by black and with 

 fuscous centres, the former oblique elliptical, the latter with its 

 lower part obscured by black, the cell before and between them 

 filled in with blackish ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer 

 side, rather strongly dentate and produced to whitish points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, some 

 white points on costa beyond it; subterminal line indistinct, grey, 

 defined on inner side by obscure somewhat dentate dark marks, 

 angled outwards at vein 7, and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; 

 traces of a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia brown and grey. 

 Hind wing pale, uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia 

 whitish at tips ; underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown, 

 a dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary, in Coll. Wolley-Dod ; U.S.A., 

 Colorado. Exp. 40 millim. 



