638 NocTcriDJi. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing suffused -with black to the subtermiual line. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing more uniform grey-brown or dark brown. 



Hah. Caxada {Norman)^ 1 § ; U.S.A., N^ortbern and Middle 

 Atlantic States to Mississippi, New York, Evans Centre, 5 J , 4 $ , 

 AVashington, D.C., Illinois, Colorado {Bruce), 1 c5' • Ea^p. 40-44 

 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Pi-oc. Ent. See. Wash. iv. p. 31G (189'J). 



Head 3 millim., pale, reticulated with brown, the curved band from 

 vertex nearly contiguous to median suture, faint below, concentric 

 with a narrower line that runs upward from the eye. Body 

 heavily mottled with dark brown, subventral region and feet much 

 paler ; dorsal line whitish, very narrow, broken somewhat broadly 

 in. the incisures ; oblique subdorsal shades dark, diffuse, paler-edged 

 posteriorly ; subdorsal line obsolete, just indicated by a paler 

 shading ; substigmatal band sharp above, defined by a white line 

 undulating below the spiracles, mottled with reddish and shading 

 into the pale subventral area; spiracles black-rimmed. Feeds on 

 oak, hickory, etc. — H.G. D. 



1099. Triphaena anchocelioides. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 13.) 



Cerastis anchocelioides, Giien. Noct. i. p. 384 (1852) ; Smitb, Cat. ]^oet. 



N. Am. p. 52. 

 Nochia cupicla, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 525, \i\. 5. f. 7 (1804). 

 Grajihiphora vcJata, Wlk. xxxiii. 710(1865). 

 Agrotis hrunncipennh, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 187 (1875). 



Head and thorax red-brown irrorated with black ; palpi black 

 except at extremity ; abdomen grey-brown, the hair at sides and 

 anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface grey irrorated with black. 

 Fore wing dull red-brown irrorated with black : indistinct double, 

 waved, subbasal and antemedial lines ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, defined by black and with fuscous centres ; the postmedial 

 line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, and with fuscous suffusion between it and 

 the subterminal line, which is slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excr;rved at middle ; a terminal series of black points usually present. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with brown line through 

 them ; the underside with discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. hrunneipemiis. Head, thorax, and fore wing deep purple- 

 brown. 



Ab. 2. cupida. Head, thorax, and fore wing bright chestnut, 

 the last sometimes with broad black bands before the ante- and 

 subterminal lines, or with the stigmata filled in with black, or with 

 whitish anuuli and no black on them. 



Hah. Canada (Norman), 1 $ , Vancouver Is., 1 5 type velata ; 

 U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and Middle States, Massachusetts, New 

 York, Trenton Falls, 1 5 type, 2 J , 4 5 , Grote Coll., type hrunnei- 

 pennis, AYashiugton, D.C., Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, New 

 Mexico. Exp. 32-38 millim. 



Larva. Marten, Trans. Dept. Agv. 111. sviii. App. p. 136 (1880). 



[No description.] Feeds on grape. — H. G. D. 



