348 NOCTUID^. 



Hind wing yellowish brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a dark diseoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and 

 terminal series of black stria3. 



Ab. 1. Eore wing tinged with purplish. 



Hah. Canada, llenfrcw Co., 2 S , 2 $ , Nova Scotia ; U.S.A., 

 1 c? 5 type coHi/-rt7/fns, Grote, Maine, New Hampshire. New Yoi-k, 

 Nebraska, Colorado, Caliibrnia, Mt. Diablo, 1 $ , New Mexico. 

 Ex2i. 30-34 millim. 



1639. Eriopyga conar. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 5.) 



Agrotis conar, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het., Siippl. i. p. 7 (1898); Dyar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 1(35. 

 Himella quadrhtigma, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xyii. p. 480 (1000). 



(S . Head and thorax pale reddish mixed with fuscous and some 

 grey ; palpi and frons at sides fuscous ; tarsi fuscous witli ])ale 

 rings ; abdomen pale. Fore wing pule suffused with purplish red- 

 brown and with some dark irroration ; subbasal line represented by 

 double striae from costa and cell, where there are some black scales 

 on each side of it ; antemedial line double at costa, then rather ill- 

 defined, irregularly waved and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviforra 

 absent; orbicular and reniform with black centres and whitish 

 annuli slightly defined by black, the former small, round, the latter 

 narrow above ; a faint oblique medial line from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line black, defined by whitish on outer 

 side and produced to short black streaks on the veins, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line only defined by the area 

 beyond it being darker, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 blackish with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing j-ellowish white, 

 the veins and termen slightly tinged with brown, a fine dark terminal 

 line ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 fuscous, a small diseoidal spot and waved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nebraska, 1 S , Utah ; New Mexico, Santa Fc 

 {CockereU), 1 cJ , Arizona. Exp. 32 millim. 



1640. Eriopyga perbrunnea. (Plate LXXXVIII, fig. 6.) 



Graphiphora perhrunvcn, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 28 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Koct. N. Am. p. 202. 



Head and thorax clothed with pur])lish red, dark brown, and grey 

 scales and hair; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey mixed with 

 dark brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface tinged with purplish 

 red. Fore wing purplish red irrorated with fuscous, the costal area, 

 cell, and terminal area suff'used with fuscous ; the veins irrorated 

 Avith white scales ; the subbasal line represented by a black striga 

 from costa and small spot below cell ; the antemedial line indistinct, 

 oblique, waved ; orbicular very indistinctly defined, round ; reniform 

 narrow, black defined by wliite, very incompletely except on outer 



