IPniOPJ'HA. 



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*4494. Ipimorpha nanaimo. (Plate CXLT. fig. 9.) 

 Ipimorpha nanaimo, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 191J (1905). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white slightly tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with brown ; ante- 

 medial line dark, oblique, slightly incurved at middle ; orbicular 

 and reniform large, faintly defined, elliptical, the former produced 

 to a slight point on outer side, the latter on inner side ; an oblique 

 dark shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line dark, slightly excurved : subterminal lime only defined by the 

 terminal area being somewhat paler and slightly irrorated with 

 black, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; costa and cilia towards 

 apex reddish. Hind wing whitish faintly tinged with brown ; a 

 diffused dark postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Victoria. Exp. 39 milliin. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in 

 Coll. W. Barnes. 



B. (Plastenis). Hind wing of male normal. 



4495. Ipimorpha subtusa. 



Noctua subtusa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 88 (177H) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 

 p. 152(1787) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 213; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 

 p. 148, pi. 82. f. 4 ; Frr. Beitr. i. pi. 10; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust, 

 iii. p. 5b' ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 205. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; antennae whitish ; 

 pectus whitish; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Fore wing glossy grey suffused and irrorated 

 with reddish brown, the medial area rather greyer ; subbasal Hue 

 yellowish white, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 brown defined by yellowish white on inner side, very oblique, 

 straight; claviform moderate, reddish brown defined by yellowish 

 white ; orbicular and reniform large, reddish brown defined by 



Fig. 45. — Ipimorpha subtusa, J. |. 



yellowish white, the former elliptical, the latter constricted at 

 middle ; a brown medial shade from costa to reniform and slightly 

 incurved from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 brown defined by yellowish white on inner side, slightly excurved 

 below costa and somewhat oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 very faint, whitish defined on inner side by a red-brown shade, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal fold, excurved at 

 middle and incurved below 3 ; cilia reddi.sh brown with a darker 



