LASIESTRA. 49 



Scotoqramma luteola. Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxi. p. 57, pi. 2. f. 10 

 (1894) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 159. 



Head and thorax clothed with dull brcvvn and grey hairs mixed ; 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen yellowish brown mixed with grey. 

 Fore wing dull brown thickly irrorated with grey ; an indistinct 

 antemedial line oblique from costa to submedian fold, where it is 

 angled ; stigmata represented by very obscure grey marks with 



Fig. 14. — Lasiestra phoca, cJ. \. 



darker marks between them; postmedial line somewhat dentate, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, inwardly oblique to submedial 

 fold near antemedial line, then excurved ; faint traces of a sub- 

 terminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal and 

 submedian fold ; cilia grey with a brown line through them. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown with a greyish tinge ; the cilia grey ; the 

 underside grey tinged with brown, a slight discoidal lunula and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Eah. Canada, Labrador, 1 S , Alberta, Calgary (TFoZZe?/--DocZ), 1 5 , 

 Laggan, 2 5 . Eap. 34 millim. 



1191. Lasiestra promulsa. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 20.) 



Mamestra promulsa, Morr. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. xi. p. 97 (1875) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 129. 

 Scotogramma infuscafa. Smith, Journ. N. Y. Eut. Soc. vii. p. 42 (1899) ; 



Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 159. 



5 . Head and thorax yellowish grey mixed with brown ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen ochreous thickly irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing brownish ochreous thickly irrorated with dark brown ; 

 traces of a waved, dark subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; an 

 indistinct, waved, dark antemedial line ; stigmata absent ; a very 

 indistinct diffused medial shade ; postmedial line dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; sub- 

 terminal line only defined by the dark shade on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia chequered fuscous 

 and ochreous. Hind wing ochreous irrorated with brown, and the 

 terminal area suff'used with brown ; cilia ochreous, with dark line at 

 base ; the underside ochreous irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal 

 point and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 5 . Exp. 36 millim. 



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