88 LEPIDOPTERA. 



the temperate portions of Northern Europe, Northern Italy, 

 the Ural Mountain district, and Western Siberia ; also in the 

 Northern United States and Canada. 



16. N. rubi, Viewig, hella,, Bkh. — Expanse 1| to If inch. 

 Fore wings short and rather oblong, truncate behind ; purple- 

 brown, with darker transverse stripes and yellowish stigmata : 

 between them a square dark spot ; hind wings whitish-grey. 



Antennae of the male rather notched, each notch surmounted 

 by a minute tuft of bristles ; apical portion threadlike ; colour 

 reddish-brown ; palpi dark purple-brown at the sides, reddish 

 in front ; head and thorax purple-brown ; collar rather raised 

 and faintly edged with paler brown ; at the back of the thorax 

 is a very slight crest of drawn-together scales, often not per- 

 ceptible ; fascicles greyish-white ; basal segments of the 

 abdomen densely covered with long smoky-white scales, 

 remainder glossy smoky-brown ; lateral and anal tufts purple- 

 red. Fore wings short and truncate, even somewhat rect- 

 angular ; costa straight ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 straight and hardly oblique, but slightly rounded off at the 

 anal angle ; dorsal margin nearly straight : colour glossy 

 purple-brown ; basal line faintly perceptible, double, 

 abbreviated, blackish ; first line also faintly blackish, hardly 

 perceptible, but duplicated and rather perpendicular ; second 

 line also double, blackish, very erect and but little curved, 

 the outer duplicate line the more distinct, and often broadened 

 into a dark stripe ; subterminal line nearly parallel with it, 

 undulating, very pale reddish, edged outwardly by a deeper 

 purple-brown transverse stripe which occupies the hind 

 marginal space ; nervures beyond the middle faintly daslied 

 with yellowish and smok^^-black ; orbicular and roniform 

 stigmata rather conspicuous, pale yellow, partly filled up with 

 reddish clouding ; between them is a squared deep purple- 

 brown spot, and from it in some cases a faint central transverse 

 shade ; claviform stigma indicated by an obscure yellowish 

 spot tipped with black ; cilia concolorous. Hind wings pale 



