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red-brown on medial and terminal areas except at apex; subbasal 

 line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, waved, oblique; claviforui absent; orbicular 

 and reniform with pale reddish centres and slight grey annuli defined 

 by dark brown, the former oblique elliptical, the latter narrow and 

 constricted at middle; a diffused red-brown medial line, oblique 

 from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line double, the lines 

 widely separated, the outer line indistinct and with dark points on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, some minute pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line pale reddish, indistinct, defined on inner side by 

 dark brown and with brown patch before it on costa ; angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine waved black 

 terminal line : cilia dark brown with a whitish line at base. Hind 

 wing grey suffused with fuscous, the termen rather paler ; a fine 

 dark terminal line ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the costal area tinged 

 with rufous, a slight discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and 

 indistinct diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 1 ^ , 1 2 ■> Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 $, 

 Ontario, Ottawa (Saunders), 2 g , London (Saunders), 2 J , 1 5 ; 

 U.S.A., Maine to Pennyslvania and W. to Iowa and Missouri, New 

 York (Doubleday, Packard), 1 3 , 5 $ , Evans Center (Grote), 2 3 . 

 E.rj>. 38-40 millim. 



4321. Apamea nictitans. 



Noctua nictitans, Linn. Syst. Nat. eel. xii. p. 847 (1766) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 126. 11'. 5 6 ; Borkh. Eur. Schmett, Noct. p. 463 (1792) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vii. p. 58, pi. 104. f. 2 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 7 ; Smith, 



Cat, Noct, N. Am. p. 174 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 186. 

 Noctua chrysographa, Schiff. V\ ien. Verz. p. 313 (1776); Hubn. Eur. 



Sch inert.," Noct, f. 221. 

 Noctua myopa, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3. 2, p. 116 (1794). 

 Not tun cinerago, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 445 (1798). 

 Noctua auricula, Don. Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. xii. p. 5, pi. 397. f. 3 (1807). 

 Noctva erythrostiqma, Haw. Lep. Brit, p. 240 (1809). 

 Noctua, fucosa, Fit. Beitr.iii. p. 152, pi. 141. f. 2 (1830). 

 Apamea hicens, Fit. Neue Beitr. v. p. 143, pi. 468. ff. 3,4 (1845) ; Herr.- 



Schaff. Eur. Schmett,, Noct. ff. 285-8 (1847). 

 Hydracia ar/iericana, Spi yer, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxvi. p. 152 (1875). 

 Hydracia. paludis, Tutt, Ent, xxi. pi. 1. ff. 1-6 (1888). 

 Hydracia liisca, Smith, List Lep. N. Am. p. 45 (1891). 

 Hydracia pallescens. Staud. Iris, xii. p. 342 (1899). 

 Hydracia pacifica, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvi p. 19 (1899). 

 Hydraca attantica, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent, Soc. xxvi. p. 18 (1899). 

 Hydra tin interoceanica, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvi. p. 17(1899). 

 Hydrcecia crinanensis, Burrows, Ent, Bee. xx. p. 184 (1908). 



Head and thorax orange-red ; teguke with the basal half yellower 

 wilh a brown medial line ; abdomen pale orange-red, the base rather 

 greyer and slightly tinged with brown, the crests somewhat darker. 

 Fore wing orange-red suffused with rufous, especially on medial area; 

 subbasal line indistinct, double, minutely waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique ; claviform 

 absent ; orbicular orange defined by brown, round ; reniform 



