MOURTSONTA. . 383 



represented by double black strite from eosta ; the anteraedial line 

 with a dark striga from costa, then indistinct and strongly angled 

 outwards above vein 1 and inner margin ; claviform incompletely 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with obscure ochreous 

 aunuli incompletely defined by black, the former oblique elliptical ; 

 the postraedial line strongly dentate, black defined by ochreous on 

 outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique; the subterminal line very obscurely defined by the 



Fig. \0\.^-Morri!>o7iia confiisa, (^. ]•, 



area beyond it being slightly darker, with blackish streaks in the 

 interspaces, running obliquely to apex, and with pale dentate marks 

 on veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 intersected with ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with 

 brown, especially on terminal area ; the veins dark ; a dark terminal 

 line ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of striae 

 on the veins. 



Hab. Canad.^ ; U.S.A., Eastern States, 3 S type infructuosa, 

 Texas, 1 S , California. Ea-j). 40 millim. 



Larva. Head round, shining light red-brown, reticulate in lighter 

 and paler over the clypeus. Jjody shaded in vinous red, with a 

 rounded, quadrate, deep vinous patch laterally above the spiracle 

 on joints 2 to 12. Fine whits dorsal, lateral, and suprastigmatal 

 lines. Shields not chitinized, coiicolorous ; spiracles white, finely 

 black-rimmed. rood-i)lants : Willow, etc. — H. G. D. 



1694. Morrisonia lignana. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 3.) 



Haclena lignana, Wlk. xi. 7 ''8 (1857); Hudson, New Zealand Moths & 

 Butterflies, p. 26, pi. v. f. 19. 



Head and thorax brownish grey slightly mixed with rufous ; 

 tegulte and patagia with black linos near upper edge ; abdomen 

 grey irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing 

 brownish grey irrorated with fuscous and sometimes tinged with 

 purplish, the costal area and veins rather paler; the subbasal line 

 represented by double black stria) from costa and cell, interrupting 

 a slight black streak above vein 1 ; antemedial line doable, dentate, 

 oblique from costa to median nervure, and strongly angled inwards 

 on vein 1 ; claviform short and broad, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform defined by black, tlie former elongate elliptical, open 



