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scales and hair, redder in front ; teguloe with brown line near 

 extremitj^ ; patagia edged by black above ; tarsi with pale rings ; 

 abdomen red-brown. Fore wing red-brown, the ante- and post- 

 medial .areas suffused with purplish grey, the costal area irmrated 

 with white: a slight subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; 

 an obli(]uc waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform forming 

 a broad V or U-shaped mark truncate below, whitish with grey 

 irroration defined by some white, and with ferruginous patch on 

 outer side of^ reniform, some deep brown or blackish suffusion in 

 middle, at sides, and below it ; i)ostraedial line dentate and pro- 

 duced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4, some pale points on costa beyond it; 

 terminal area whitish, more or less tinged with brown and ex- 

 tending to inner side of subterminal line at middle, this line being 

 indistinct, pale, defined by a dark brown bar before it towards 

 costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle ; 

 slight dark streaks on the veins towards termen and a terminal 

 series of dark lunules. Hind wing reddish brown ; the underside 

 grey irrorated and suffused with reddish brown, especially on 

 marginal areas, a large black discoidal spot and indistinct sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Vancouver, 4 S ; U.S.A., Oregon. 

 Ej-p. 32 millim. 



1667. StretcMa plusiseformis. 



Stretchia plusiceformis, H. Edw. Pi-oc. Gal. Ac. Sci. v. p. 2()7 (1874) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 208. 



(S . Head pale rufous, the frontal tuft white and deep rufous; 

 tegulfe pale rufous at base, the tips white with three dark brown 

 lines; thorax white, mixed with dark brown hair and scales ; 

 abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing bluish white irrorated with dark 



Fig. 97. — Stretchia plusies/ormi^, (^ . \. 



brown ; a slight dark streak below base of cell ; a subbasal line 

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

 obsolescent on inner area ; orbicular and reniform conffuent below 

 and forming a broad U-shaped mark, indented below, whitish 

 irrorated with brown, defined at sides and below by a dark brown 

 line with slight rufous suflfosion round it, the reniform with ferru- 

 ginous mark on outer side and dark striga at lower angle of cell ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, minutely waved, well separated from 

 reniform, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale, defined by black-brown on inner side 



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