I5S LF.PIDOPTERA. 



Eastern Asia. Tn Canada and the United States is a more 

 pnrplisli form, called imrpurissntn^ which is most probably 

 only a modification of the present species. 



2. A. tincta, ^/f/?. — Expanse If to 2^ inches. Fore wings 

 silvery bluish-white, clouded broadly in the middle with purple- 

 brown, and with two similar blotches before the hind margin ; 

 stis^mata edged with purple-black ; hind wings dark brown. 



Antennse of the male simple, minutely ciliated with tiny 

 tufts of fine bristles, purple brown ; palpi short, broadly 

 tufted, black shaded off with grey ; head dusky white, broadly 

 barred in front and across the top with purplish-black : 

 lower portion of the collar broadly white, edged above by a 

 deep black bar, the portion above this light brown ; shoulder 

 lappets greyish-white, with a broad deep black stripe down 

 the outer edge and black dots along the inner margin ; 

 remainder of the thorax reddish-brown, with top and back 

 crests, which are tipped with black or dark purple-brown 

 and barred with white, the bars at the back being broad and 

 distinct; fascicles white ; abdomen shining pale grey-brown, 

 the basal portion covered with long glossy white hair-scales, 

 and the dorsal ridge ornamented with four or five small dark 

 purple-bi'own crests or tufts lying obliquely; lateral and iinal 

 tufts rather small. Fore wings long, broad behind ; costa 

 decidedly curved ; apex angulated ; hind margin very full, 

 regularly crenulated, rounded and more oblique toward the 

 anal angle, where is a slight concavity ; dorsal margin faintly 

 curved. Colour silvery greyish-white, or bluish-white, much 

 marbled in the middle area with purplish-brown ; basal line 

 black, double, angulated. abbreviated ; first line duplicated, 

 blackish with the enclosed line very white, rather perpen- 

 dicular and but little indented ; before it is a transverse 

 stripe of pale purplish-brown expanded on the costa ; second 

 line purple-brown, more faintly duplicated, scalloped through- 

 out, the tips of the scallops in the middle of the wing run- 

 ning out to dots on the nervures ; between the duplicate lines 



