390 



NOCTTTIDiE. 



Head and thorax pale to deep purple-brown, often mixed Avitli 

 ■white ; palpi black except at extremity ; tegula) except at tips 

 white tinged with olive ; tibiae and tarsi blackish, ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing 

 pale grey, tinged with purplish brown to deep purple-grey; the sub- 

 basal line double, blackish, curved from costa to vein 1 but interrupted 

 at cell, and with some brown or black suffusion beyond it in sub- 

 median fold ; the antcmcdial line double, oblique, waved and excurved 

 above inner margin; claviform with its extremity defined by a V- 

 shaped black mark ; orbicular brownish white, defined bv black in 



Fig. 



7G. — Jjrotis c-nigritm, (^ . \. 



the form of a very open V confluent with the brownish-white medial 

 costal area ; reniform rufous above, purplish fuscous below, its 

 centre defined by brown and its outline by black ; u waved medial 

 shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line 

 double, bent outwards below costa-. excurved to vein 4, then in- 

 curved, dentate, and with series of black points at the veins ; a pale 

 sinuous subterminal line with oblicjue black striga on costa, and the 

 area beyond it rather darker ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hiiul wing ochreous white, tinged with brown especially on the 

 veins, costal, and terminal areas ; the underside with discoidal point 

 and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hal). Canada, Renfrew Co., 2 S , Nova Scotia {Redman), 1 6 ; 

 U.S.A., New York, 1 c5' , 4 $ , Schenectady (Lintner), 2 $ , Evans 

 Centre (Grote), 1 2 , Illinois {DouUeda;i), 1 S , Kansas (Snow), 2 $ ; 

 Mexico, Jalapa (IJocge), 1 cJ , 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; C. & S. 

 EuKorE, Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls, ; Nokway, llomsdal, 1 cJ ; 

 EussiA, Livonia, 1 $ ; C. & N. Asia ; Siberia, Schigansk, 1 J ; 

 Japan, Hakodate, 1 d" , Oiwake (Pri/er), 1 $ ; Cokea, Gensan, 1 cJ ; 

 W. China, Chia-kou-ho, 1 cJ , 1 $ , Washan, 1 c? , Ta-chien-lou, 

 1 2 , Chang-yang, 1 $ ; N.W. Himalayas, Ivulu, Sultanpur 

 {Graham Youm/), 2 ^ , 1 $ , Campbelli)ur (Tcrhuri/), 1 5 , Dharm- 

 sala {Hoclcincj), 3 c? , 5 $ ; Sikhim {Liihlenlalc, Dudgeon), 1^,1 $ ; 

 NiLGiKis {diamjison)^ 2 c? , 2 $ . Exp. 36-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 99; Barrett, Le^D. Brit. iv. p. 53, pi. 142. f. 3. 



(Eedescribed.) Head 3-5 ram., light brown, shining, reticulate 

 with dark brown, the curved vertical bands very broad, with strong 

 mottling between at vertex ; line upward from eye strong, with a line 



