484 NOCTUID^. 



4 b'^. Mid tibia of male with the outer spur normal. 



((^. Fore wing tinged with pink roseola. 



b^. Fore wing not tinged with pink farcta. 



1836. Cirphis roseola. (Plate XCI. fig. 20.) 



Leucania roseola, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xsi. p. 75, pi. v. f. 9 (1894); 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 163. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous with a slight pink tinge ; 

 tegulce with two slight lines, patagia with some black scales near 

 upper edge ; abdomen ochreous, white at base ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen tinged with brownish pink. Fore wing 

 pale ochreous tinged with pink ; the veins white defined by fine 

 pink streaks, the interspaces also streaked with pink ; a small 

 white spot at lower angle of cell with a black point above it 

 in angle ; postmedial line rejiresented by black points on veins 5 

 and 2. Hind wing white, the termen slightly tinged with ochreous 

 towards apex ; the underside w ith the costal area tinged with 

 ochreous and irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Kaslo (J. W. Coclde), 2 $ , Van- 

 couver ; U.S.A., "Washington, Pullman, 1 § , Oregon, Corvallis, 1 c? . 

 Exp. 42 millim. 



Larva. (Original.) Head shining brown, the reticulations in- 

 distinct, the vertical baud next the suture distinct and black. 

 Body uniform, creamy brown ; dorsal line narrow, white, brown- 

 edged ; a distinct, nearly solid, subdorsal black band with a white 

 one below it ; a narrow white line in the middle of the brownish 

 lateral sjiace ; a white band below this ; lateral space below filled 

 by a broad dotted greyish space cut by a narrow line of the ground- 

 colour ; substigmatal band broad, defined by its white edges, filled 

 with the ground-colour. Spiracles black. Abdominal feet of 

 joints 7 to 10 black outwardly. Food-plants, Grasses. — H. G. D, 



1837. Cirphis farcta. (Plate XCI. fig. 21.) 



HeliopMla farcia, Grote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 15 (1881); Smith, Cat. N'oct. 

 N. Am. p. 188. 



Head and thorax ochreous ; tegulae with traces of three dark 

 lines ; patagia with a few black scales near their upper edge ; pro- 

 and metathoracic and abdominal crests brownish at tips ; abdomen 

 ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous, irrorated with a few black 

 scales on inner area ; the veins whitish, defined by rufous streaks^ 

 the interspaces with rufous streaks : a black point below origin of 

 vein 2; postmedial black points on veins 5 and 2; traces of an 

 oblique pale shade from apex ; a terminal series of minute points 

 sometimes present. Hind wing white, tinged with ochreous towards 

 termen ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 brown. 



