CIRPHIS. 521 



with black ; a prominent black streak below base of cell to origin 

 of vein 2 ; an oblique streak above inner margin before middle ; a 

 blackish streak in end of cell or spot in lower angle ; the inter- 

 spaces of terminal area with black streaks ending in a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; the cilia ochreous white ; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, some black points 

 on termen from apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. rhodocomma. Ground-colour of head, thorax, and fore 

 wing purplish red. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll.; Fbance, Sand Coll.; Germany, 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Switzerland, Zeller and 

 Frey Colls.- IST. Italt ; Bulgaria, Rilo Dagh (£J?ives) ; Armenia; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Siberia ; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk- 

 Kul, Alexander !Mts., type rJiodocomma in Coll. Piingeler ; Mongolia, 

 Urga ; Tibet, Amdo ; E. Siberia, Amur, XJssuri ; Punjab, Kulu, 

 type t (S nigrofasciata in Coll. Elwes. Exp. 40-42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 69 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 163, pi. 203. f. 3. 



Grej'ish ochreous to reddish brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines 

 pale or whitish, edged with dark brown and witli a brown line 

 between them ; lateral and spiracular lines pale ochreous separated 

 by a dark brown space ; head brown marked with blackish. Food- 

 plants, Grasses. 8-4. 



1891. Cirphis insueta. (Plate XCII. fig. 23.) 



Leucania insueta, Gruen. Noct. i. p. 81 (1852) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 188. 

 Helwphila adonea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 159 (1874). 

 Leucania hcterodoxa. Smith, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 75, pi. v. f. 7 (1894) ; 



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

 Leucania mimica, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het., Suppl. ii. p. 6 (1899). 



Head and thorax ochreous more or less strongly tinged with 

 rufous ; teguloe with blackish medial line ; patagia with some black 

 scales near upper edge ; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface 

 rufous. Fore wing ochreous, mostly suffused with rufous and 

 sparsely irrorated with black, more thickly on costal area ; the 

 veins white defined by rufous streaks ; the interspaces with rufous 

 streaks ; a black streak below base of cell ; a black point below 

 origin of vein 2, with another below it on vein 1 ; a postmedial series 

 of points on the veins bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then obli(|ue ; an obliijue pale shade from apex ; a terminal 

 series of black points, the terminal area rather darker and angled 

 inwards in discal and submedian folds. Hind wing ochreous white, 

 the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous ; the underside 

 with the costal area suffused with rufous and irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Canada, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 J , Anticosti, 1 $ ; 

 U.S.A., New York, 4 S type adonea, 5 j type, Minnesota, 1 $ , 

 Colorado. Exp. 34-38 millim. 



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

 tinct, the vertical band next the suture distinct and black. Body 

 as in roseola, but the markings faint, diffused, not contracted. The 



