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defined by brown, its inner part orange, a white central lunule 

 defined by brown, its upper and outer parts white broken up into 

 spots by streaks on the veins ; a diffused brown medial line, oblique 

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

 widely separated and with traces of another line between them, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, 



Fig. 0. — Apameanictitans, J .' \, 



then incurved, some minute pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal and 

 submedian folds, excurved at middle ; a deep red-brown line just 

 before termen ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing pale rufous suffused 

 with fuscous except at termen; a fine brown terminal line; cilia 

 pale rufous, wbitish at tips; the underside whitish, the costal area 

 suffused with rufous, a small dark discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial 

 line, and diffused subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. lucens. Larger. 



Ab. 2. erythrostigma. Fore wing with the reniform orange. 



Ab. 3. americana. .Fore wing rather more orange-red. — E. States 

 and Canada. 



Ab. 4. interoceanica. Fore wing browner. — W. Canada. 



Ab. 5. pacifica. Fore wing greyer. — California. 



Ab. 6. pallescens. Much paler ; fore wing ochreous white tinged 

 with brown. — W. and E. Turkestan. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, Nova Scotia [Redman), 4 J , 

 llenfrew Co., 13 J, Ontario, (Gibson), 1 $ , Ottawa (Gibson), 1 J , 

 1 $, Manitoba (Fletcher), 1 §, Aweme (Cricldle), 2 J, Beulah 

 (Dennis), 1 <f , Alberla, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 5 S , 1 $ : U.S.A., 

 E. States (Packard, Speyer), 8 tf , 3 $ , Colorado (Gocherell), 2 J ; 

 Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller & Leech Colls. ; 

 Austria; Hungary; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; N.Italy; Scandi- 

 navia ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., 

 Urals; Armenia; W. Turkestan; Ferghana; W. Siberia, Altai ; 

 E. Turkestan, 1 tf , Thian Shan, Korla ; Tibet, Amdo ; E. Siberia, 

 Amurland, Ussuri; Kamstshatgar; Japan, Hakodate, 2 <5 , Oiwake 

 (Pryer), 2 $ , Tokio (Maries), 1 d , 3 $ ; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 

 3 $ ; W. China, Chang Yang {Pratt), 1 $ . Exp. 34-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 135 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 65, pi. 19l!. 



Ochreous grey or pinkish grey ; dorsal, subdorsal, lateral, and 

 spiracular lines pale greyish ochreous ; head pinkish ochreous ; 

 thoracic plate yellow-brown. Food-plants : Grasses. 6-7. 



