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NOCTUIDJE. 



curved postmedial line ; cilia black and white ; the underside with 

 discoidal spot and ])roniinent waved postmedial line. 



IJah. U.S.A., New Hampshire, White Mts. Exp. 33 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



Sect. III. {Anarta). Antennae of male cihated. 



A. Hind wing briglit yellow. 



a. Fore wing with the ground-colour deep red myrt'dli. 



h. Fore wing witli the ground-colour bliiciiish. 



a^. Fore wing with the reuiforni filled in with whitisli ... cordigr.ra. 



f)\ Fore wingwitli the reniforni not filled in with white ... minmlL 



B. Hind wing yelluwisii, tinged with brown impuKjens. 



C. Hind wing unilbrm brown j^hcea. 



D. Huid wing white, sometimes completely sufl'used with fus- 



cous on upperside. 



a. Fore wing broad, triangular. 



a'. Fore wing without whitish annuli to the reniforni melanopa. 



h^. Fore wing with whitish annuli to tlie reniforni mhniila. 



b. Fore wing narrow, elongate. 



rt'. Fore wing ])ale olive-grey mansi. 



hK Fore wing fuscous semblica. 



I 



1179. Anarta myrtilli. 



NocUia myrfilli, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 311 (1746); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 16.5. ff. 1-3; Hiibu. Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f. 98; Hup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



p. 286. pi. 118. f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. Ill ; Curt. Brit. 



Eut. pi. 14.1 ; St.uid. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 218. 

 Anarta acadiensis, Beth. Tr. Nov. Soc. Ins. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 84 (1869) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 292. 

 Anarta alpina, Eaetzer, Mitth. Schweiz. ent. Ges. viii. p. 224 (1890). 



Head and thorax deep red, palpi black at tij^s, lower part of 

 Irons, base of tegulse, middle and tips of patagia, and metathoracic 

 crest white, the vertex of head, tips of tegulse, and greater part of 



Fig. 13. — Anarta myrtilli, ^j". 



thorax ochreous ; tarsi black banded with white ; abdomen black- 

 brown with ochreous segmental lines, the dorsal crest and anal 

 tuft red, the lateral hair ochreous, the ventral surface ochreous and 

 red. Eore wing deep red, pale olive-brown in parts ; the subbasal 

 line double, Maved, from costa to submedian fold, filled in with 

 white; the antcmedial line double, oblique, waved, tilled in with 

 olive-brown and white, the claviform a minute spur on its outer 

 side; the medial area with more or less white suffusion and promi- 

 nent triangular spot on median ncrviire : orbicular and renit'orm 



