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Luperina stipata Morr. 



1875. Morr. Pr. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. 1875,64, Hadena. 



Pale fuscous with usually a violet gray shading along the costal 

 region. A black basal streak ; a heavier streak on internal margin at 

 base oft. a. line; and a broad black shade through submedian space 

 between the ordinary lines. Median vein and its branches at end of 

 cell, white to t. p. line. Sometimes veins 1 and 2 are powdered, with 

 white scales to the same point. Basal line obsolete; t. a. line marked 

 only by a geminate oblique dusky shade in submedian space; t. p. 

 line hardly marked superiorly,but distinct from vein four as a narrow pale 

 line sharply limiting the dark shade in median space. S. t. line indef- 

 inite,marked by oblique dusky shades in terminal space and interrupted 

 by paler streaks on veins three and four, reaching the outer margin. 

 A series of black terminal lunules. Claviform very small, variable in 

 size and shape. Orbicular concolorous, variably sized and formed, nar- 

 rowly black ringed. Eeniform indefinite, small, upright, constricted, 

 resting on the white forks of the median vein. Secondaries pale ochery. 

 Head and thorax concolorous with primaries, abdomen with secondaries. 

 Beneath, very pale ochery in the $ darker. As a rule the 9 is darker 

 throughout than the S . The thorax is somewhat depressed, the ante- 

 rior divided crest low and inconspicuous. 



Expands 37 millimetres, 1.5 inches. 



Habitat. — Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota. 



A very well marked species, recognizable by the white forks of med- 

 ian vein and the black transverse shade in median space. 



Luperina passer Gu. 



1852. Gu., Sp. Gen., Lep. Noct. i, 195, Mamesira. 



1856. Walk., C. B. Mns. Lep. Het. ix, 231, Mamestra. 



1879. Grt. Can. Ent., xr, 179, Hadena. 



1882. Grt. New List, 27, Luceria. 

 loeulaia Morr. 



1874. Morr, Bull. Buff. Soc. N. Sci. ii, 110, Luceria. 



1879. Grt., Can. Ent. xi, 179, pr. syn. 

 var conspicua Morr. 



1874. Morr. Bull. Buff. Soc. N. Sci. ii, 110, Luceria. 

 Pale leather brown, varying to smoky or gray brown, all the lines in- 

 distinct, geminate. T. a. line usually obsolete ; outwardly angulated in 

 the interspaces. T. p. line more evident, even or slightly crenulate, its 

 course sinuate. S. t. line faint, marked usually by the slight difference 

 in shade between terminal and s. t. spaces, and sometimes by more or 

 less distinct black preceding spots. Claviform very distinct, heavily 

 outlined in deep black." Ordinary spots concolorous; orbicular round, 

 black ringed; reniform large, kidney shaped, more or less completely 

 black-ringed, outwardly somewhat paler. The median space is usually 

 somewhat darker, and there is a more or less evident dusky shade run- 

 ning parallel and rather close to t. p. line. Secondaries fuscous. Be- 



