4-4 NOCTUiD.ii;. 



Underside of foro uiiig black-brown, with large curved ycUoAvish 

 discal patch. 



Ab. 1. cetJiiops. Fore wing almost entirely black except the 

 reniform stigma. 



Ab. 2. carhomtria. Like (eihioj)s, but the underside of fore wing 

 yellow W'ith the marginal areas dark. — S.E. f^beria. 



Ifab. Canada, Labrador ; U.S.A., Colorado ; liuirAiN, Scotland, 

 Leech Coll.; Pkakck ; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Switzkkland, Prey 

 Coll.; Spain, Aragon ; Norway, Zeller Coll.; Hussia, Finland, 

 Leech Coll., Livonia, ZcUer Coll., St, Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals ; 

 N.E. Siberia ; Amukland. Ea-p. 26-28 millim. 



Larva. Mpyr. Brit. Lep. p. 87 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 223, pi. 250. f. 3. 



Purjjlish brown mixed with black ; dorsal line whitish ; sub- 

 dorsal line indistinct ; subspiracular line brownish ochreous marked 

 with red. Food-plant, Vaccinium. 7-8. 



*1181. Anarta miinuii. 



Anarfa mirmili, Behr. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1885, p. 62; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Amcr. 

 p. 295. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen blackisli. Fore wing blackish ; the 

 lines indistinct and slightly defined by whitish ; the subterminal 

 lino expanding into a spot at tornus. Hind wing yellow, with 

 prominent black terminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., California. Exy. — ? This species is unknown to me. 



Larva. Similar to that of A. myrtilli. Food-plants : Eunanus 

 tohnicei, Antirrhinum kinrjii, and Mimulus scrophularia. 



1182. Anarta impingens. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 14.) 



Anarta impingens, Wlk. xi. 700 (1857) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 294. 

 Mamestra curia, Morr. Ann. Ljc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. xi. p. OG (1875). 

 Anarta nivaria, Grote, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. xi. p. 107 (1875). 

 Orthosia perpiira, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 66. 



(5 . Head and thorax lilacine grey irrorated with fuscous : abdo- 

 men reddish brown. Fore wing lilacine grey irrorated with brown ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 anteraedial line rather oblique, waved, strongly excurved at sub- 

 median fold ; claviform represented by a slight blackish mark ; 

 orbicular and reniform very indistinctly defined, the former nnind, 

 a strong diffused medial shade passing between them ; postmcdial 

 line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 strongly incurved ; subterminal line pale, defined on inner side by 

 a brown shade and an ill-defined series of small dentate dark marks, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of dark lunulcs. Hind wing yellowish, suffused with reddish 

 brown, and with a diffused terminal brown band broad at apex, 

 narrowing to tornus ; a dark discoidal lunule ; cilia yellowish ; the 

 underside yellower, the discoidal lunule prominent, a terminal series 

 of dark striae. 



$ . Much darker. 



