STRETCHIA. 



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promiuently towards costa and inner margin, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and slightlj' excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small 

 dark lunules. Hind wing grey tinged with brown ; the cilia 

 ochreous white ; the undei'side grey irrorated with dark brown, a 

 diseoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nevada, 1 S . Exp. 38 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Much darker; fore wing rather broader ; stigmata not 

 conjoined, the orbicular oblique elliptical, the renit'orm oblique 

 oblong, the area round them slightly darker; postmedial line closely 

 approximated to reuiforra and straight from below costa to vein 4-. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Bruce), 1 S • 



Larva. Head rounded, shining brown, sutures and mottlings on 

 the sides pale. Cervical shield shining umber-brown, mottled with 

 pale and a pale dorsal line ; anal plate similar without central line. 

 Body whitish, densely mottled with red-brown. Dorsal and lateral 

 lines narrow, obscure, whitish ; stigmatal band broad, white, 

 obscure, red-filled, just covering the spiracles. Spiracles white, 

 black-ringed ; feet pale. 



Food-plant, wild gooseberry. — H, G. D. 



1G68. Stretchia variabilis. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 18.) 



Stretckia varlnh/l/s, Smitli, Traus. Am. Eiit. Soc. xviii. p. 119 (1891) ; id. 

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



Head and thorax clothed with black-brown and blue-grey scales 

 and hair mixed ; frons with black bar ; tegula3 with grey tips ; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous mixed with black. 

 Fore wing blue-grey thickly irrorated with fuscous, the medial 

 area suffused with fuscous except towards costa and inner margin ; 

 the veins streaked with black ; subbasal line black, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold, in which it is followed by a black streak 

 bent down to vein 1 basally ; antemedial line defined by grey on 

 inner side, oblique from costa to below cell, then erect ; orbicular 

 and reniform grey irrorated with fuscous and defined by black 

 except above, the former somewhat oblique elliptical, and approxi- 

 mated or conjoined at lower extremity to the latter ; postmedial 

 line defined by grey on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 grey, slightly defined by black on inner side, more strongly towards 

 costa and inner margin, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, with 

 a slight pinkish tinge and irrorated with brown scales; some 

 purplish-brown hair on inner margin ; a terminal brown line ; tlie 

 underside with black diseoidal lunule showing througli to upperside. 

 JIah. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce), 2 c? , 1 $ . Exp. 40 millim. 



*lG(i9. Stretchia inferior. 



<r, Smith, Tr. U.S. Nat. Miis. x. 

 .207. 



Dark grey ; tegulae reddish at base. Fore wing very indistinctly 



Ferigrapha inferior, Smith, Tr. U.S. Nat. Miis. x. p. 477 (1887) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 207. 



