LASIONrCT.V. 57 



outwards below costa, iucurved below vein 4 and touching lower 

 edge of reniform, some white poiuts beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of whitis^h lunules defined 

 by black marks before and beyond them, slightly angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black 

 striae ; cilia chequered white and black. Hind wing fuscous ; cilia 

 greyish ; the underside grey thickly irroratcd with fuscous, a small 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line, 



Ab. 1. alj^ncola. Bang Haas, ined. 



Fore wing with patch of orange scales beyond lower extremity of 

 subbasal line ; clavii'orm large and extending to near postmedial 

 line. — Altai. 



Hah. Sweden ; Lapland ; "W. Siberia, Altai, 1 $ . Exp. 36 

 miliim. 



1204. Lasionycta subfuscula. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 28.) 



Anarta subfuscida, Grote, Proc. Eost. Soe. N. H. xvi. p. 244 (1873) ; id. 

 Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. pi. 1. f. 7 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 204. 



2 . Head and thorax grey mixed with black-brown; tarsi banded 

 with fuscous ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing 

 pale violaceous grey thickly irrorated with black-brown ; the sub- 

 basal line represented by indistinct dark spots below costa and in 

 and below cell ; antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, 

 oblique, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, defined 

 by blackish ; orbicular and reniform moderate, defined by blackish, 

 the former round, the latter with fuscous centre and grey annulus ; 

 a diffused medial shade; postmedial line defined by grey on outer 

 side, strongly dentate, and with a series of dark points beyond it 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 strongly incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line formed by a series of strongly dentate brown marks, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia 

 pale with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish 

 thickly irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Ilah. U.S.A., Montana, Oregon, Colorado, 1 5 type. Exp. 34 

 millira. 



1205. Lasionycta sedilis. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 29.) 



Scotogramma sedilis. Smith, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 43 (18'J'J) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 150. 



$ . Head and thorax grey mixed with black ; antenna) ringed 

 with black ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen brownish grey irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with black ; traces 

 of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line indistinctly double, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 



