210 KocTUiDj;. 



gre^'-purple ; the mcdiaa nervure with creamy-white fascia forking 

 between veins 3, 4 ; the subbasal line represented by a very oblique 

 whitish striga from costa, defined on each side by black and by an 

 inwardly oblique striga from median nervure with some black on 

 each side of it ; the antemedial line double, black filled in with 

 creamy white, angled outwards below costa, then strongly inwards 

 on median nervure and very strongly outwards to postmedial line 

 on vein 1, its inner side defined below the cell by purplish grey, at 

 median nervure angled back below the subbasal striga ; claviform 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform very nari'ow and oblique, 

 with pale brown centres defined by dark brown and creamy-white 

 annuli defined by black, the former confluent with the antemedial 

 line above and open above and below ; postmedial line creamy 

 white, partially defined on inner side by black, angled inwards 

 below costa, then very oblique to vein 4, where it is joined by a 

 creamy-white fascia with slight dark line on it from apex, then 

 very oblique to vein 1 near midd]e, then angled outwards to inner 

 margin, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line re- 

 presented by a series of creamy-white lunules with strong dentate 

 black marks before them and some black on their outer edges ; a 

 fine black terminal line ; cilia pale brown, with two black lines 

 through them. Hind wing whitish, the veins brown ; the marginal 

 areas broadly brown ; cilia whitish, with bi'own line near base ; the 

 underside with black discoidal point. 



Hah. CAifADA, Calgary (WoUeif-Dod), 2 $, Vancouver I., 1 J; 

 U.S.A., Oregon, Portland, Colorado, California {Behr, Wahinr/liam), 

 3 (5 , 1 $ ; CosTA Rica, Irazu (Rogers), 1 c? , Candalaria Mts. 

 (Underwood), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 48-54 millim. 



Larva. Head rounded, pale brown, reticulate with dark brown, 

 vertical lines obsolete. Body thickly shaded in brown, leaving 

 little pale strigas only. Dorsal, subdorsal, lateral, and substigmatal 

 lines broad, straight, pale. Dorsal space dark, the dorsal line 

 reddish strigose, an elongate, black segmentary shade edging sub- 

 dorsal line above. Subdorsal line yellowish white, strigose ; lateral 

 line fainter ; substigmatal line broadly red-filled. Spiracles white, 

 in patches of dark shading. Shields concolorous, weakly chitinized, 

 the anal plate pale, but cut by the subdorsal line. Feet pale. — 

 H. G. D. 



1426. Hadena graminivora. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 10.) 



Darqida qrammivora, Wlk. ix. 202 (1856) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 

 i."p. 270. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with ochreous and red- 

 brown ; tegulse with black medial line ; patagia edged with black ; 

 abdomen broAvnish ochreous, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 rufous. Fore wing black, the marginal areas suffused with purplish 

 grey, the inner margin ochreous brown, the veins black defined by 

 purplish grey, the median nervure streaked with ochreous white 

 i'orking between veins 4 and 3 ; the subbasal line ochreous white. 



