50 noctuid.t;. 



1192. Lasiestra uniforinis. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 21.) 



Scofoqramma nniformis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 58, pi. ii. f. 12 

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



Head aiul thorax dull brown mixed with greenish grey ; abdomen 

 brown mixed with grey. Fore wing dull brown tinged with greenish 

 grey ; an indistinct waved antemedial line ; stigmata very obscurely 

 defined by brown and with rather darker marks between them ; 

 postmedial line sliglitlj' waved, excurved from eosta to vein 4, then 

 incurved and again excurved at vein 1 ; cilia rather paler, with a 

 dark line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia yellowish, 

 witli a fuscous lino through them ; the underside grey thicklj' irro- 

 rated with bi'own, a large discoidal lunule and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. CAifAHA, Alberta, Laggan ; IJ.S.A., Colorado, 1 S • Exp. 

 40 millim. 



Sect. II. Aiitennre of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour bluish or pur]ilish grey. 



a. Fore wing without terminal series of small black spots dovrcnsis. 



b. Fore wing with terminal series of small black spots. 

 a'. Fore wing with the ground-colour blue-grey. 



a". Fore wing not tinged with oli\e elven. 



b'^. Fore wing tinged with olive dcliciosa. 



b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour purplish grey fcrplexa. 



B. Fore wing grey tinged with olive-brown fcrsa. 



1193. Lasiestra dovreusis. 



Dianthcecia dovrcnsis, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1SG4, p. 182 ; id. Cat. Lop. 



pal. p. IGl. 

 JJianthacia altaica, Staud. Iris, v. p. 366 (1892). 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white ; tarsi blackish, 

 ringed with white ; abdomen, brown irrorated with grey. Fore 

 wing black-brown thickly irrorated with grey-white ; subbasal line 



Fig. 15. — Lasiestra dovrcnsis, ^. \. 



defined by white on outer side, waved from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line irregularly waved, defined by white on inner 

 side ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, defined by black, the former grey, round or produced to a point 

 on outer side, the latter dark ; postmedial line highly dentate, 

 defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line grey, defined l)y dentate 



