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abdomen dark brown and greyish. Fore wing grey tinged with, 

 olive- green and thickly irrorated and suffused with black especially 

 on medial area ; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold defined by greyish on outer side ; antemedial line 

 double, nearly evenly excurved from below costa to inner margin 

 and with a dark patch before it on vein 1 ; claviform moderate, 

 slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, with olive 

 and black centres and grey annuli defined by black ; the former 

 oblique elliptical, a rufous spot between them in cell ; a dentate 

 medial line oblique from costa to below cell ; postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, then incurved ; the post- 

 medial area paler except at costa, on which there are some pale 

 points ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, with a rufous patch before 

 it in submedian interspace, the area beyond it darker except at 

 apex, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and to tornus ; 

 the veins streaked with black towards termen. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with fuscous, especially on veins and terminal area; the 

 underside white with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 brown, a dark discoidal lunula and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. ohscurior. Fore wing much more thickly and evenly 

 irrorated with black. 



Ab. 2. comis. Fore wing with the reniform and postmedial area 

 whitish. 



Ab. 3. 7'ectiUnea. Fore wing with the postmedial line more 

 oblique and less incurved below vein 5. 



Hab. Canada {Noi^man), 2 <S , Renfrew Co., 1 J , Manitoba, 

 Winnipeg, 1 J , Alberta, Calgary ( Wolley-Dod), 1 J , 1 $ , Van- 

 couver I., 1 J , 4 § ; U.S.A., throughout the N'orthern, Eastern, 

 and Middle States to Florida, 1 J , 1 § , Washington, 1 c? , 2 $ , 

 Oregon, Corvallis, 1 5, Colorado (Cocl-erell), 1 J, Glenwood 

 Springs (Barnes), 1 c? , Hall Valley, 1 $, Durango (Oshir), 1 (^ , 

 3 5 , California ( Walsingham), 1 (S ■, 2 2 ; Mexico, Coatapec 

 (Brook-), 1 (5 type Jiamara, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 25-30 

 millim. 



Larva. (Original.) Head small, shagreened, dotted, reticulate in 

 black with a black patch at the vertex of each lobe. Body robust, 

 with spicular granules, the setae swollen. Pale grey-brown ; dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines pale, the latter edged below by a series of black 

 segmentary triangular patches. Dorsal diamond-shaped marks 

 grey, faint. Subventral markings obsolete ; spiracles black. On 

 joint 12 the subdorsal band is widened by a diffuse ochraceous patch. 

 A general feeder, hiding in the earth which adheres to the rough 

 skin.— H. G. D. 



Larva. Var. comis. (Original.) Head small, shagreened, re- 

 ticulations and vertical bands black. Body as in olivacea, but with 

 a more pinkish tint ; the dorsal diamond-shaped markings much 

 darker, distinct, cut by the pale dorsal line. Substigraatal band 

 broad, pale, reddish filled, fairly well contrasted, its upper edge 

 curved upward in the segmental incisures. The setae are swollen 

 ' and the skin rough as in olivacea. Spiracles black. A general 

 feeder, hiding in the earth. — H. G. D. 



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